Thanks for the quick reply:

1. I am on OSX El Capitan 10.11.3 and have tried a number of cables in the micro USB slot as per the tutorials.

2. I can connect via wireless to the device.

see https://onion.io/console for the differences in console: no app store, control multiple devices.

I am getting a lot of failures when following just the tutorial information. For example:

1. The silicon labs drivers don't help the onion recognize the usb cable plugged in even though it is properly configured. (i consoled into a cisco router to test)

2. In the UBUS tutorials the following command - ubus call onion "omega-led" '{"set_trigger"="heartbeat"}' results in a 'Failed to parse message data' error.

3. The Onion console look much different than it does in the tutorials and doesn't have the apps that are shown.

I am on the current firmware but seems seem very different -any help would ... help

Erick