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MacOS setup guide

Sudo is not necessary anywhere!

COMPATIBILITY INFORMATION

Only Apple Silicon is supported

  1. Download osx-arm64.zippackage from releases
  2. macOS may automatically unzip this zip file, so please move osx-arm64 to any directory you want
  3. Using Finder (or any other file manager, but Finder is preferred), enter osx-arm64 directory, make sure you can see VRSX.App and then, right-click on the folder in the path bar at the bottom or the folder itself in the parent view"
  4. Disable Gatekeeper using command xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ./VRSX.App
  5. Open the app by double-clicking on VRSX.App in Finder or using command open VRSX.App/
  6. NOTE: There is a bug (I love Apple including fruits, but hate for this!) and there won't be any VRSX icon in the dock or top bar - it's mostly working like a daemon. To kill VRSX, you need to execute command killall VRSX
  7. THat's all! Enter 127.0.0.1:8085 (or any other IP of your mac) and activate VRSX - licence key is present in "MY Account" section in ADS-B.Pro RadarView
  8. Enjoy!

Any systemd, automation?

macOS has launchd which is something "like" systemd, but no idea how it's working. First, it will require me to do some changes in Info.plist file, but, hey!

If you want VRS X to start automatically, just add VRSX.App to your Login Items in System Settings -> General -> Login Items. It's not a full daemon service, but it works for 99% of users!

NOTE: I have never tried it. Mac is my main development machine, but my testing server is a Raspberry Pi.