Serial Connections via USB-C
I am switching from Windows to Mac and have picked up a USB-C serial adapter.
I am trying to figure out on Mac how to create a serial connection.
I have the console of firewalls, switches, and other things needing a serial connection.
After much googling I sort of found iterm, but it is deprecated.
Is there a document somewhere that will give me a rundown on using a USB-C serial adapter on macOS Catalina with RemoteDesktop Manager?
Thanks,
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All Comments (12)
Hello,
Not sure that we have such kind of feature in RDM Mac.
I would need to verify with our engineering department and get back to you.
Best regards,
Jeff Dagenais
Hello,
Just a quick message to inform you that a feature request has been opened for the request above.
The ticket number is RDMP-67.
Best regards,
Jeff Dagenais
Okay, so it wasn't just something that I missed?
It is available on the PC version, and I used that quite a bit, but I'm having trouble finding it on Mac.
I was able to get iTerm to work and I could talk to the serial port and I was able to do some cli on my firewall and switch.
Hello,
Indeed, it's something that is missing on RDM Mac.
Best regards,
Jeff Dagenais
Hi,
RDM and RDM Free 2020.3.1.0 that just released now supports the Serial Port entry. Please, do tell us if you find any issues.
Best regards,
Xavier Fortin
Hi Xavier,
I'll give it a try today. Thanks!
Hi Xavier,
I am trying to use USB to serial in version 2022.2.12.0 on MAC. On login I get junk characters in response with the same configuration I used Termius ssh client, and it is working well, kindly help me and let me know wrong in RDM.
I have attached screenshots for config reference.
TERMIUS-DISPLAY.png
TERMIUS-CONFIG.png
RDM-CONFIG.png
RDM-DISPLAY.png
Hi,
We will need to investigate. We'll get back in touch if wee need more information.
Best regards,
Xavier Fortin
Hi agrimgrover,
I need to know if you are running on an intel mac or an arm mac, your serial adapter is a usb-c or standard usb. This can help us to reproduce your problem.
Thank you.
Hi Luc,
I am using MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) , 16GB Memory, currently using USBA to serial convertor.
Please feel free to revert if require more information.
Thanks
Agrim
Hi Agrimgrover,
I noted that your RDM parity setting is set on default. Did you try to set it explicitly to NONE? May be your default are not good.
I'm trying to reproduce your problem but until now I was unable to replicated it unfortunatly. If you try my suggestion let me know if that solved the problem or not.
Best regards,
Luc
Hi Luc,
Good morning! Apologies for late response. I have tried RDM parity = None and default both, but still getting the crapy response, I have also tried various encoding like UTF-8, ASCII, etc.
Please find the attached version of RDM I am using for M1, I tried to upload the DMG but facing issue.
Please try to use Dmg Devolutions.RemoteDesktopManager.Free.Mac.2022.2.12.0.dmg, As unable to find the different DMG for M1
BR,
Agrim