Observed arrival · 2026-10-19
BusLane: a watchdog for tethered shoots
A lightweight macOS menu-bar app that monitors USB link speeds and flags camera, cable, or card-reader drops during tethered work.
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- For
- Photographers and digital techs tethering on Mac
- Worth noticing
- It can list a long tether cable’s repeater as a separate USB device, helping distinguish cable trouble from camera trouble.
Field notes
The page explains that BusLane monitors macOS USB connections beneath capture software rather than integrating with Capture One or Lightroom. It distinguishes negotiated rates—10 Gbps, 5 Gbps, and USB 2.0's 480 Mbps—and says long active cables may appear as their own repeater device on the bus. The Mac app is priced at £0.99 once and requires macOS 14.6 or later.
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