USB IR receiver for MAC and TEC2G

[dsteding]

Did a quick search-surprisingly, didn't see an answer to this.

If someone is using a mac with the Tec2G and has found a suitable USB IR reciever that doesn't cost $70 can you point me in the right direction?

I'm running OS 10.3.9, I found one that is 10.4 compatible but nothing else.

[EDIT] Digged deeper, found my answers. Not too happy about the chipset compatability thing, $70 is starting to look cheaper in terms of possible time spent.

 

[puytioco]

Hello dsteding. I'm just curious to know if you were able to figure this out. I hope to be able to download my dive data sometime.

I'm currently using OSX 10.5.5 on MBP Core2Duo

Thanks.

 

[drh2436]

I have an aladin prime and an old g4 powerbook 10.5.4 (leopard) , i looked on scubaboard and googled for an irda cable that would work, but have come to the same conclusion as you dsteding. I dont want to spend 70 bucks on the uwatec, but it may be easier and cheaper in the long run. I just got the computer, so im gonna wait till the log is somewhat full before I buy the cable (and pay off my original purchase).

If anyone knows any cheap usb irda cables that work on macs, please help us out.
thanks
DH

 

[drh2436]

I have an aladin prime and an old g4 powerbook 10.5.4 (leopard) , i looked on scubaboard and googled for an irda cable that would work, but have come to the same conclusion as you dsteding. I dont want to spend 70 bucks on the uwatec, but it may be easier and cheaper in the long run. I just got the computer, so im gonna wait till the log is somewhat full before I buy the cable (and pay off my original purchase).

If anyone knows any cheap usb irda cables that work on macs, please help us out.
thanks
DH

 

[Chris H]

Belkin USB Infrared SmartBeam: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

I don't think Belkin markets them in the US, and I think I got mine on Ebay in the UK. It works with my 20" iMac running JTrak and the TEC2G. I hadn't used it in a while so I just downloaded some dives now to make sure I wasn't making things up. I have been using Smart Trak in Windoze running with VMWare Fusion and having no problem with the cheap, readily available USB dongles. Although Jtrak is nice, I wish Uwatec would do a full version for the Mac so I didn't have to use Windows at all.

 

[masterof0]

I have tried four of 5 different adapters, and so far, the uwatec is the only one that I have found that works with the Mac

 

[masterof0]

The one thing you might want to look into with the intel based macs is the create a bootcamp partition or use something like vmware fusion or parallels to run windows which will open up your options. The other thing I ran into is that the mac based software is not even close to being as robust as the windows based software