Best Mac OSX / WSJT-X Configurations?

Scott Oakland

I tried all of these suggestions but I still can't get WSJT-X to transmit audio to the Flex 6400M. I can get it to receive though. I am using DogParkSDR, DogPark MacLogger, Loopback, and WSJT-X. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I've been changing settings all day and I get somewhere then I lose it.

Ted VE3TRQ

Sounds like you are using v3. Can’t help much with that - I use v2.4.9 because I want to continue to use xDax / xCat. That said, I HAVE set up dpSDR / loopback / wsjt-x, and it does work fine - I just don’t have it set up right now, so cannot put together a presentation on how to set up configuration. Scott, did you carefully follow Don’s instructions in the dpSDR on-line manual for setting it all up? I tend to use a separate input and an output device for loopback (DaxIn / DaxOut), but Don only uses a single loopback audio device, and that seems to work fine for him. Set the dpSDR audio in/out and wsjt-x in/out to be that device. dpSDR needs to be set to Mac audio and Dax (and Dax TX) MUST be turned off.

George KF2T

Great to hear, Mario! Happy to test when you’re ready.

George KF2T

Try https://www.dogparksoftware.com/dogparkSDR_Help/Mac_WSJT-X_Setup.pdf  for a solution that works for 2.5 and 3.0, and even MacOS Catalina.

Ted VE3TRQ

Great tutorial, George - it should really help out those who have moved up to v3.

One caution / caveat / fly in the ointment: in High Sierra (at least) there is a bug in kext installs (the sound pseudo-device drivers are kernel extension) that can prevent the “allow a new kernel extension to load” step to not be found. When High Sierra MacOS loads a new kernel extension, the “Security & Privacy” control panel may need to be visited to allow the load. The “Allow...” button in that control sometimes does not “see” the mouse click, and will not show you the list of extensions to be allowed. In order to get around this, you need to enable "Full Keyboard Access. > All controls” in “System Preferences>Keyboard>Shortcuts”. After this, go to the “Security & Privacy” control, use “Tab” to get to the “Allow...” button and use “Space bar” to “click” it. You can then allow the load. You can also do this through keyboard action by turning on accessibility controls. See “https://support.home.sophos.com/hc/en...” for an example. I know it’s a pain, but it happened to me (probably because I use “Magic Prefs”, a Magic Mouse extension).

Keith Mitchell