Sleeptracker under Mac OS X

By

Thomas

on January 20, 2009 1:13 PM | Permalink

(Si vous cherchez la version française de cette page,
c'est ici : Sleeptracker sous Mac OS X)

To set up the sleeptracker under Mac OS X, you have N main steps:

• Install the usb-serial driver
• Download  and install the perl serial module
  
• Download the perl script that extracts data and send it on the www.sleeptracker.net web site)
• Create an account on www.sleeptracker.net
• Custom the script to match your configuration
• Launch it
  

The usb-serial driver

• Download it from FTDI
• Install it as any Mac OS X application
• Reboot your computer

The perl serial module

• Download it from http://search.cpan.org/dist/Device-SerialPort/SerialPort.pm
• Install it as an Unix application :

In a terminal, type:
tar -xvzf Device-SerialPort-1.04.tar.gz
cd Device-SerialPort-1.04
perl Makefile.PL
make
sudo make install

Download and customise the script

• Download it from http://www.sleeptracker.net/7.php
• At the line 41, change firefox to the path to yor navigator :
  

• /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin if your use firefox
• /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari if you use safari

That's all folks !

Now you just have to launch the script:

perl sleeptracker.pl <serial file>

This serial file is easy to find, it is a file in the folder /dev/ named tty.usbserial-*