I investigated using CrossOver on my new laptop since Windows 10 will no longer run old software and JP Instruments is not going to port their download software to a newer OS. I need to run windows once a month to update my IFR databases and might as well download my engine monitor at the same time. Running CrossOver within ubuntu 18.04 at least gets me to one laptop at the hangar rather than hauling my XP machine along to do the download.
EzTrends 2.2.21.97 will run on CrossOver 19.0.2, for downloading and displaying data however there are several settup steps that must be performed first.
1) after installing EzTrends, you must go into the windows registry settings and define your serial port device.
The Tripplite USB adapter I'm using is known as /dev/ttyUSB0. Follow instructions here:
https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/mac/mactutorial/usbtoserial2
2) in addition to that, EACH TIME you plug in the USB adapter the port permissions need to be changed
sudo chmod +006 /dev/ttyUSB0 (or sudo chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB0)
After starting CrossOver and then EzTrends, it did not download properly the first time but when I restarted the download it ran fine.
It's VERY slow. The engine monitor dumped it's data in a few minutes but it took CrossOver over 30 minutes to finish importing the data. It did work, just very slow.
Displaying downloaded data worked fine.
Don't expect database functions to work as there were error messages during the install.
That;s all for now.