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Laserbee LPM running on Mac

grainde

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Ive been asked to make this quick thread to let people with macs know they can run their LPMs in a Virtual windows environment.

To be honest I'm guessing pretty much anyone with a mac knows how to run windows on their machine, but just in case...;)

You have a few options:

1) Use boot camp and install windows
2) Partition the HD yourself and set up different partitions for all your OS', then use rEFIt (cos its easy and has nice little icons:)) to boot into your chosen OS.
3) Install a virtual machine. Im using VMware Fusion, but eg Parallels is an alternative.

So with option 3, all you have to do is install the virtual environment and then follow the instructions to install the windows OS of choice. You can even install the OS directly from the ISO without having to burn a DVD. The advantage of a Virtual installation is that you can boot up and have windows running along side your mac OS. This means you can use your mac and when needed, just boot up windows in a separate window to run any program you wish.

My set up is currently using OSX Mountain Lion on a MBP, with VMware Fusion V5 installed and Windows 8 64bit installed on this.

Once Windows is installed and running the first thing you need to do, to get your LPM working, is install the driver package and Eagle Eye software program supplied with the Laserbee.

Next you need to plug in the USB from the Laserbee and make sure you select pair with Windows from the popup window. If you choose Mac, windows wont see it!;) Then you need to execute the Laserbee Interface software and check which COM port is selected. In my case only 2 standard COM ports were shown, so I had to find the COM the laserbee was attached to. To do this check in the "Control Panel", find "Device Manager" and check under "COM ports" that "Prolific-USB-Serial (COMX - in my case COM3)" does not have any issues. When I first looked it said the device could not be started as it was not recognized. After reinstalling/updating the drivers and rebooting it worked.

That's all and its quite simple. So sorry for those of you that consider this extremely basic...For those of you who haven't experimented with a virtual setup it is really quite practical, but be warned it takes its toll on resources and could slow your computer considerably, whilst in use!

Anyway, I hope this will be of some use to those of you with Macs!:beer:
 
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grainde said:
Ive been asked to make this quick thread to let people with macs know they can run their LPMs in a Virtual windows environment.

To be honest I'm guessing pretty much anyone with a mac knows how to run windows on their machine, but just in case...;)

You have a few options:

1) Use boot camp and install windows
2) Partition the HD yourself and set up different partitions for all your OS', then use rEFIt (cos its easy and has nice little icons:)) to boot into your chosen OS.
3) Install a virtual machine. Im using VMware Fusion, but eg Parallels is an alternative.

So with option 3, all you have to do is install the virtual environment and then follow the instructions to install the windows OS of choice. You can even install the OS directly from the ISO without having to burn a DVD. The advantage of a Virtual installation is that you can boot up and have windows running along side your mac OS. This means you can use your mac and when needed, just boot up windows in a separate window to run any program you wish.

My set up is currently using OSX Mountain Lion on a MBP, with VMware Fusion V5 installed and Windows 8 64bit installed on this.

Once Windows is installed and running the first thing you need to do, to get your LPM working, is install the driver package and Eagle Eye software program supplied with the Laserbee.

Next you need to plug in the USB from the Laserbee and make sure you select pair with Windows from the popup window. If you choose Mac, windows wont see it!;) Then you need to execute the Laserbee Interface software and check which COM port is selected. In my case only 2 standard COM ports were shown, so I had to find the COM the laserbee was attached to. To do this check in the "Control Panel", find "Device Manager" and check under "COM ports" that "Prolific-USB-Serial (COMX - in my case COM3)" does not have any issues. When I first looked it said the device could not be started as it was not recognized. After reinstalling/updating the drivers and rebooting it worked.

That's all and its quite simple. So sorry for those of you that consider this extremely basic...For those of you who haven't experimented with a virtual setup it is really quite practical, but be warned it takes its toll on resources and could slow your computer considerably, whilst in use!

Anyway, I hope this will be of some use to those of you with Macs!:beer:
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Excellent....

I was under the impression that there was no way to run our
EagleEye software on a MAC.

Now MAC users can use the Full Featured EagleEye Data
Logging software that came with their LaserBee LPM.

Thanks for sharing and posting this... I approve...:beer:
+ Reps on the way...


Jerry

You can contact us at any time on our Website: J.BAUER Electronics
 
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lasersbee said:
I was under the impression that there was no way to run our
EagleEye software on a MAC.

Now MAC users can use the Full Featured EagleEye Data
Logging software that came with their LaserBee LPM.
Click to expand...

It technically isn't running on the Mac OS, Mac users will have to buy a copy of windows, and run it on the windows OS inside the Mac OS to get it to work. Older Mac's wont be able to handle the ram usage.

@OP Nice tutorial! I know a lot of people have wanted Jerry's data logging on the Mac for the longest time. I also believe Trevor has something coming out very soon that will run on Mac/Linux/PC and will be compatible with LaserBee LPM's.
 
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Thanks guys glad you approve.:) If there is anything missing, or if you have any better/ alternative suggestions, please let me know and Ill add it to the OP. :beer:
 
ARGLaser said:
It technically isn't running on the Mac OS, Mac users will have to buy a copy of windows, and run it on the windows OS inside the Mac OS to get it to work. Older Mac's wont be able to handle the ram usage.

@OP Nice tutorial! I know a lot of people have wanted Jerry's data logging on the Mac for the longest time. I also believe Trevor has something coming out very soon that will run on Mac/Linux/PC and will be compatible with LaserBee LPM's.
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I understand that it is not a direct MAC usage but it is a solution
that I was not aware of and it seems to work.
Grainde even used a Win8 64bit version on his MAC.

BTW... there are a lot of copies of Windows floating around if
someone really wants to find one...:whistle:(not condoning piracy)

I believe Trevor gave up on that project... I haven't seen
him update that Thread in quite a while but still posts regularly
on other Threads.. I'm sure he'll chime in...


Jerry

You can contact us at any time on our Website: J.BAUER Electronics
 
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