SeaClear Wine OXS: How to use USB-Serial GPS on Com1?

[pinsl23]

Hey Guys,

i have already researched a while and tried to figure out, how to get my USB-GPS-Device (Prolific NL-202U) to work under Wine in my SeaClear-Software. Under MacOS ist works, as i can use GPS data on my mac native gps. But i need the GPS Data in SeaClear, but SeaClear says "Could Not Open Communication Port 1".

My question ist how can i get the com port 1 to work in Wine? I tried mapping it in Terminal but failed. Perhaps i made some mistakes.

Can anybody give me a good hint on how to "Map" the USB Device to Com Port 1?

Thank you in Advance!

Best,
André

[Siguza]

Run this in the Terminal:

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ls | grep tty\\.

In the list that is printed, find the one representing your GPS device (I'll call it "tty.GPS" for now).
Then run the following:

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ln -s /dev/tty.GPS ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1

At this point SeaClear should be able to communicate with it.

Regards
Siguza

[pinsl23]

Hi Siguza,

thank you for your help. I already tried this tipp, but unfortunately it doesn't help. Sea Clear still says "Could not open Port"

Any other suggestions?

Best Regards!

[Siguza]

Well, it says here that it helped to chown the tty port to the current user, but the test report is 5 years old and I think that's quite bad practice.
However, the command to do that would be

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chown $(whoami) /dev/tty.GPS

And if that messes up anything, you can undo it with

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chown root /dev/tty.GPS

Regards
Siguza