Plover fails to see Wave machine

weisgern commented 6 years ago

Summary

I recently purchased a Wave stenograph machine and have it hooked to my iMac with the included usb cable. Once I open Plover I get an error no matter what configuration I try, the fail is for serial port connection (errno 2). I've downloaded and installed Homebrew as well as libusb and restarted the computer but still can't see the machine in Plover. When I run a system report for OS X I can see the wave machine under the usb tab, so the computer knows it's there. What else can I do for this issue?

Reproducing

Stenograph Wave connected via USB cable

Plover Version

3.1.1

System

Mac OS X 10.12.3 I'll be updating to 10.13 tonight and trying again.

morinted commented 6 years ago

There are two communication modes for the Wave over USB:

Standard This is the default. If you have installed the Stenograph USB plugin, then switching machine protocols to "Stenograph USB" should work with this mode. If the machine indicates "Connected" but the paper tape doesn't display your strokes, it is because the plugin doesn't support the Wave's particular protocol (this is something I've been struggling with for a while)
Mira Emulation This mode creates a virtual serial port, which you should be able to connect to with the machine protocol set to "Stentura". The port to select should appear/disappear between scans if you plug and unplug your machine from your computer.

If you look at the Wave manual, page 59 details modifying the USB Communication Option.

Hope this helps!

gdwaynewarner commented 6 years ago

It looks like the version of Plover he's using is the last official release ... so perhaps he might have better luck with the new weekly:

https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/releases

sunflowerpirate commented 6 years ago

@morinted First, thanks for the response. Second, when you say if I have the USB plugin, where can I get the USB plugin? Again I'm on a Mac so the drivers on stenograph.com don't work because they're Windows only.

sunflowerpirate commented 6 years ago

@gdwaynewarner I've installed the newest version of Plover but I'm still having the same issue, I'm attaching a screenshot of the error I get. screen shot 2018-04-29 at 11 18 24 am

morinted commented 6 years ago

On the new version of Plover, the "Plugins Manager" will let you download the Stenograph USB plugin. Then, restart Plover and it should be an option as a machine protocol.

Separately, when using Stentura with Mira Emulation, you should configure it through the Configuration >> Machine window in order to Scan and select Ports.

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morinted commented 6 years ago

Hi again,

I believe the latest update of the Stenograph USB protocol should support your machine.

Get the Plover weekly release (4.0.0dev8+)
Open Plover, then open the "Plugins Manager" tool
Find plover-stenograph-usb and install it.
Restart Plover.
Select "Stenograph USB" as your machine.

It should work, please let me know if you run into issues!

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 3:25 PM Ted Morin morinted@gmail.com wrote:

On the new version of Plover, the "Plugins Manager" will let you download the Stenograph USB plugin. Then, restart Plover and it should be an option as a machine protocol.

Separately, when using Stentura with Mira Emulation, you should configure it through the Configuration >> Machine window in order to Scan and select Ports.

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ashrosed36 commented 6 years ago

How in the world do I download the latest version? I am on a Mac running High Sierra and for the life of me I cannot figure out which one to run, and how.

sunflowerpirate commented 6 years ago

We had the same problem and fixed it by bgetting a PC. 😬

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How in the world do I download the latest version? I am on a Mac running High Sierra and for the life of me I cannot figure out which one to run, and how.

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morinted commented 6 years ago

The DMG is the Mac version.

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We had the same problem and fixed it by bgetting a PC. 😬

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How in the world do I download the latest version? I am on a Mac running High Sierra and for the life of me I cannot figure out which one to run, and how.

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ashrosed36 commented 6 years ago

Got it figured out, thank you!!

githotsko commented 3 years ago

@ashrosed36 I am trying to set up a wave to my macbook, how did you get plover to recognize the usb drivers?

sunflowerpirate commented 3 years ago

Unfortunately, after scouring the internet, and a lot of false hope I ultimately discovered it couldn’t be done with a Mac. Instead I bought a cheap Dell and used that. Good luck, sorry.

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@ashrosed36 https://github.com/ashrosed36 I am trying to set up a wave to my macbook, how did you get plover to recognize the usb drivers?

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user202729 commented 3 years ago

From the comment right above it should be possible... try following the instruction (download the dmg, install it, install the plugin mentioned)

morinted commented 3 years ago

@githotsko let us know if you need assistance, we've definitely had Waves working over USB on Mac 👍

sunflowerpirate commented 3 years ago

Thank you, that’s amazing. In 2018 I couldn’t figure it out.

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