My AquaLink system is nowhere near my Mac mini (so no serial-to-USB), but it is next to a wired ethernet port. I was thinking of using something like this StarTech serial over IP device. However, it doesn't show up as a serial device on the Mac. Instead (in theory) I can just open a socket to the device's IP address and stream the serial data back and forth.
Looking at the Jandy plugin it uses an Indigo class to obtain a list of serial ports for the preferences page. Is there a way to add a network device to this list? Or some other way to use the IP address instead of a serial device name?
Any thoughts or pointers would be appreciated!
Mike