ftdi serial driver conflict

[toymaker]

Hi!

while plugging the dmxis in to do a demo, i just got the error
message
"The FTDI Serial driver is installed on your Mac. This Driver prevents
DMXIS from communicating with its hardware."

so i looked that up in the enttec knowledge base and discovered
"On OS X, the DMXIS software communicates directly with the hardware
interface via USB. If the FTDI serial driver is installed on the
computer, this will block all DMXIS communications. The solution is to
delete the FTDI serial driver " (and then instructions on how to do
this)

my problem with this is that i have just installed this FTDI driver in
order to do a bunch of work with the Arduino platform
(www.arduino.cc). i plan to use the arduino to connect several sensor
inputs for my computer, to control a composition in Live +
MaxforLive. The composition will include sound, and light control
with dmxis running inside live.

so i'm looking for some other solution than to not use the FTDI
driver.

Does anyone here have any ideas on where to start?

Thanks!

Dylan
www.parastra.com

[arm]

Dear Enttec I too have the same request.

Let us to use Dmxis with Arduino hardware, "the solution" in your knowledge base is not a solution!

Article ID: 000051

Problem:

When starting DMXIS on OS X, the following error is displayed: "The FTDI Serial driver is installed on your Mac. This Driver prevents DMXIS from communicating with its hardware."

Solution:

On OS X, the DMXIS software communicates directly with the hardware interface via USB. If the FTDI serial driver is installed on the computer, this will block all DMXIS communications. The solution is to delete the FTDI serial driver as follows:

1) Log into OS X using the Administrator account

2) Start Terminal (located in Application > Utilities)

3) Type these commands into the Terminal (entering your admin password when prompted):

• sudo rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext
• sudo rm -r /Library/Receipts/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.pkg

3) Restart your computer and run DMXIS - it should now connect to the hardware successfully.

Thanks in advance,

Arm

[nicolas]

We use the resources given to us by FTDI, you can voice your concerns to FTDI and ask them to create a CDM driver like on windows, which has both VCOM and D2XX in one.
The more people complain the higher priority this will get.

Thank you

Nicolas Moreau

----- Original Message -----
From: arm
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To: dmxis...@googlegroups.com
Sent:
Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:47:59 +1100
Subject: [DMXIS Users] Re: ftdi serial
driver conflict

>
> Dear Enttec I too have the same request.
> Let us to use Dmxis with Arduino hardware, "the solution" in your knowledge
> base is not a solution!
>

> *Article ID:* 000051

> Problem:
>
> When starting DMXIS on OS X, the following error is displayed: "The FTDI
> Serial driver is installed on your Mac. This Driver prevents DMXIS from
> communicating with its hardware."
> Solution:On OS X, the DMXIS software communicates directly with the hardware
>
> interface via USB. If the FTDI serial driver is installed on the computer,
> this will block all DMXIS communications. The solution is to delete the FTDI
>
> serial driver as follows:
>
> 1) Log into OS X using the Administrator account
>
> 2) Start Terminal (located in Application > Utilities)
>
> 3) Type these commands into the Terminal (entering your admin password when
> prompted):
>

> - sudo rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext
> - sudo rm -r /Library/Receipts/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.pkg

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[toymaker]

an update on the arduino <> dmxis issue;

the new arduino uno (http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno) no
longer uses a FTDI chip to interface with usb, there is a programmed
atmega chip inside that does the work. so it is now possible to use
an arduino powered device to manipulate at the same time as dmxis.
which i have done successfully at least once. and it would have been
great except it's hard to make piezos work properly at -30c. oops ;)

not sure how many of the arduino family devices (lilypad, FIO, etc)
have migrated, but the uno for sure works.

enjoy!

dylan toymaker

On Oct 15, 10:14 pm, nicolas <nico...@enttec.com> wrote:
> We use the resources given to us by FTDI, you can voice your concerns to FTDI and ask them to create a CDM driver like on windows, which has both VCOM and D2XX in one.
> The more people complain the higher priority this will get.
>
> Thank you
>
> Nicolas Moreau
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----

>

[Salvatore Passaro]

Dear Dylan I have arduino uno and you solved my problem!

Thanks Dylan and thanks Nicolas Moreau.

Sincerely,

Salvatore Passaro

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