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benhalsall YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	Simplewrite Sep 5th, 2008, 4:01pm   I'm trying to write to the Serial port on my Mac. Here's a screengrab of the error I'm getting: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fin5bjh/2830771050/sizes/o/ Any thoughts?

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Simplewrite Reply #1 - Sep 5th, 2008, 5:47pm   The port name defaults to COM1, which is very likely to be wrong on a Mac! The example uses  new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 9600); (the 9600 could be omitted since it is the default).

benhalsall YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	Re: Simplewrite Reply #2 - Sep 9th, 2008, 11:09am   Thanks for the suggestion but it's still firing up the same error... http://www.flickr.com/photos/fin5bjh/2842734838/sizes/l/

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Simplewrite Reply #3 - Sep 9th, 2008, 1:06pm   You have a PortInUseException exception, which probably means the serial port is already owned by some other application on your Mac. See CommPortIdentifier reference (open() method). Note: that's not the same error...