[chirp_users] Chirp on MAC OS X Yosemity

[Eric Oyen]

well,
I am still on 10.7 here (my machine won't support any further upgrades). However, my issue is a bit different than yours. I am totally blind and use the voiceover screen reader. Guess what? chirp doesn't have a visible interface. I can see the app, but nothing in the app pane is visible to voiceover. 

Now, I had previously requested that some small changes be made that would have made chirp accessible. However, it appears that one or more of the devs either couldn't, or wouldn't, make the attempt. I had previously posted links to tools and libraries that would have made this program accessible in both windows and OS X. unfortunately, I never did get a clear response on that (other than the lament about having to maintain separate code bases). SInce python is multi-platform, it stands to reason that the accessibility libraries and tools are also.

Now, this is not to disparage chirp or its developers. The program is important in that it does support a large number of radios (mostly). It is definitely a much needed software package, but it still needs changes.

For any of you who don't think there are that many visually impaired hams out there, you would be wrong. our numbers are growing. As the population ages, more and more end up with age related visual impairments and some of them are hams. so please do not dismiss us as a niche population (apple didn't and as a result, our population represents one of the largest user bases for iDevices).

Anyway, thats my say and I am standing by it.

-eric

On Jul 19, 2015, at 3:04 PM, Pat Anderson wrote:

> I too went from Lion to Yosemite on my 2011 Macbook Pro.  Biggest mistake I have made with any computer ever.  I do not have an answer for you. When anybody finds an answer, it deserves a page of its own on Miklor.com.  I have tried everything, I though I had it with this technique, it seemed to work for a while and then it just stopped working as well.  But you can try it, good luck and let us know how it works for you:
>> Here is what I found. The driver is the issue with Yosemite.  The built-in FTDI driver prevents the osx-pl2303 driver from loading.  The fix (not for the faint of heart) is to do some black magic at the command line.
>> 
>> In Terminal, enter:
>> 
>> sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1"
>> This allows other (unsigned) drivers to load.  The driver that works for me is the Lion driver from miklor.com.
>> 
>> Then manually load the driver (first time only,  it will load automatically after that) with this command in Terminal:
>> 
>> sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext
>> This creates the device cu.PL2303-000012FD, be sure that is what you select in the CHIRP Radio dialog in the Port drop-down. Again in the Terminal, do "cd /dev", and then "ls" (without the quotes) to  see that the cu.PL2303-000012FD driver is actually loaded.
>> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Roos G Mats <mats.g.roos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
> Hi I just upgraded my MAC from Lion 10.7 to OS XYosemite 10.10.4, everything with Chirp has been working great till I did the upgrade, does anyone have the “magic” solution?  What needs to be added?  New Drivers ? or ??
> 
> Thankful for help
> 
> Mats
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