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Serial Timeout with Moonlite Focuser

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This is my Focuser.ino Arduino file that controls two focusers, one stepper and one dc, a light box and a dew heater. Can't have unused pins.

And temperature using an LM355.

Close enough to C not to matter, the protocol is defined in the file.

It's designed to work with a ULN 3008 for stepper control.

It looks as if it can use a couple of buttons to run the focuser in and out.

I last touched this in 2014, glancing through it you should have few problems.

No indi code, there will be an ASCOM driver arond somewhere but that will be in C#.

Have fun!


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3 years 10 months ago #53395
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Previous issue with MacOS Catalina 10.15.3/10.15.4 and Moonlite FTDI Driver signing not being recognised by MacOS and not loading
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I've today received an updated driver from FTDI version 2.4.4 which is signed and recognised by Apple so it now loads whereas version 2.4.2 didn't.
I can't give it a full test yet but bench testing a basic config it does now seem to work ok and the focuser moves in and out when requested. It is too early to say it is fixed until I can test in its proper configuration, but the signs look encouraging. I'd be interested if it works for others who have this specific issue. The driver doesn't seem to be on their website yet, but there support people are very proactive and helpful if you log a support call via email.
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Macos Catalina 10.15.5 on MacBook Pro and FTDI driver 2.4.4 - Procedural workaround for Apple FTDI driver (seemingly) interfering with FTDI's driver causing intermittent operation with Moonlite focuser

The procedure for dealing with the Apple USB driver interference bug is:

1. Reboot so you have a 'clean' system. USB device is connected for reboot.

2. On boot we have duplicate devices:
Steves-MBP:~ sjf$ ls -l /dev/*usbserial*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 9 30 May 13:39 /dev/cu.usbserial-4
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 1 30 May 13:39 /dev/cu.usbserial-AH0741BL
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 8 30 May 13:39 /dev/tty.usbserial-4
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 0 30 May 13:39 /dev/tty.usbserial-AH0741BL


3. Unload the Apple driver (even though utilities seem to show it is not loaded!) with:
Steves-MBP:~ sjf$ sudo kextunload -b com.apple.DriverKit-AppleUSBFTDI ; echo $?
Password:
0 <---- Return code seems to suggest no error which means it must have been loaded (or is that just the return from sudo?)...anyway...
Steves-MBP:~ sjf$


4. Physically disconnect the USB device:
Steves-MBP:~ sjf$ ls -l /dev/*usbserial*
ls: /dev/*usbserial*: No such file or directory <--- Yes, it is gone
Steves-MBP:~ sjf$



5. Reconnect the device, and now we have what I would have expected in the first place with no duplicate devices:
Steves-MBP:~ sjf$ ls -l /dev/*usbserial*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 1 30 May 13:45 /dev/cu.usbserial-AH0741BL
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 0 30 May 13:45 /dev/tty.usbserial-AH0741BL
Steves-MBP:~ sjf$


6. ...and now the device is working happily, which to me says the Apple driver is interfering somehow even though it says it is not loaded.
3 years 9 months ago #54877

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I have the same problem! I try to instal both drivers, 2.4.4 or 2.3 and always get bad result.
In Extensions i have note that driver not loaded.

Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7
KStars 3.4.3

I need help:)
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I have the same problem! I try to instal both drivers, 2.4.4 or 2.3 and always get bad result.
In Extensions i have note that driver not loaded.

Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7
KStars 3.4.3

I need help:)
3 years 5 months ago #61870
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Unfortunately the FTDI driver with Catalina later versions never did work. My "solution" was to connect the Moonlite focuser to a Raspberry Pi running Ekos and then use the indi server remote option on the ekos running on the mac to connect to it with MoonLite@[IP Address of RaspPi]
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I have a reply from FTDI. They are told me that driver working well with Catalina:

"We have resigned our VCP driver to be compatible with macOS 10.15, this version (2.4.4) can be found on our website:

www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm



We are currently working on a .dext version of the driver to be compatible with the newer versions of macOS (big sur).



Apple also include a VCP driver in macOS (AppleUSBFTDI.dext), if you are using a default FTDI device this driver should associate to the device and create a COM port in the ‘/dev’ folder.

It would appear as the following, where the ‘xxxx’ is the devices serial number:

/dev/cu.usbserial-xxxxxxxx

/dev/tty.usbserial-xxxxxxxx"
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But the 2.4.4 driver doesn't work, for me anyway. See posts #54678 and #5487, #61890 above.
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