Replying to Avatar David Croyle

My Mac running WSJ-TX is annoying in that every time I reboot, there is a high chance (but not 100%) that the Serial Port has changed name, and so needs to be manually re-selected in the WSJTX prefs in order to work. Why it randomly switches names I don't know, and why WSJTX can't figure it out I don't know either, but it's something I have to deal with every day that I wish I didn't.

#hamradio #wsjtx #ft8 #MacOS
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Ed Braaten, N7EKB 9mo ago

On #linux you can specify a /dev/serial/by-id that is persistent across reboots. That's unfortunately not a native option in #MacOS. It might be possible to mimic the linux behaviour with a custom Python script using the pyserial library to enumerate the serial ports and create /dev/serial/by-id links for you.

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