The primary issue with the Mac Mini is the native libraries for the serial port Java library (JSSC) used by YAAC. If you can get a Java runtime for your operating system and CPU hardware, most of YAAC will work. However, the JSSC library won't load if it can't find a matching native library in the JSSC distribution, so any of the ports using a physical serial port (such as Serial_TNC, Serial_GPS, Serial_Weather) won't work.
If you install the JSSC library version for your operating system on your system, it may work. YAAC looks for an O/S provided native JSSC library before falling back to the versions shipped with YAAC.
Hope this helps.
Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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[email protected]Subject: [yaac-users] YAAC on Mac mini M1 ?
The ka2ddo web page for YAAC suggests that it will only run on x86 based OS X. Is this due to the situation concerning a JRE, or is there some other issue holding it back ?
I currently have a Mac mini M1 with a TAPRN 9600 TNC plugged into a USB port. While I don't have a proper APRS client on it. I can run screen and capture all the radio traffic as it is being seen. So that data path from the radio to the TNC to the Mac mini is all functional. I'm currently downloading an Azul ARM64 JRE to see how useful that might be.
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