See openflexure browser on macbook or store images on usb

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My goal is to get captured images on my macbook. I’ve heard I can do this by viewing the openflexure microscope on a browser and connecting through a url. I’m having trouble seeing the openflexure in my browser on the same wifi network. Curl can see it but the browser cannot at 192.168.0.177:5000. Chatgpt 5 is zero help on this. The other idea which I also can’t do is to save the captured files to a usb but that’s not happening either – the storage button in the interface doesn’t recognize the usb even though it’s mounted on the desktop. ChatGPT is also not able to find a solution for this either. So I’m stuck.

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Hi @techdog , I am a mac user too :slight_smile: Are you mac and the OFM on the same network? 192.168.0.177 - is this the IP address you get with you ping you OFM in the terminal? The IP can change if you connect from a different network, so I just always ping my OFM first.

I experienced the USB issue as well. I used to just scp them via terminal but now with v3 server it can become easier to download the images though - both stitched and individual - so I stopped doing the terminal command bit.

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Yes IP address of OFM and mac are the same network. curl can ping the microscope from the mac but the browser cannot open it. I’m on a m1 macbook. I’m trying to avoid having to take out the sd card each time I want to transfer images.

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Hi @techdog, I had the same problem on a Mac mini M2 and had two issues:

  1. Control Center is on port 5000. You can check it in your terminal with sudo lsof -i :5000. If it starts with ControlCe, you can turn AirPlay Receiver off in System Settings > General > AirDrop & Handoff > AirPlay Receiver, and toggle it off.

  2. I also turned on some permissions for my browsers: System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network > look for your browsers and toggle them on.

After closing the browsers and restarting the computer, it worked for me.

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