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Huzzah - port not shown issue

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Hi,

I am having the seemingly common problem of not having any ports to connect to my Huzzah board. I have googled and googled, followed all recommendations to the best of my ability and still no luck. Here's where I'm at:

- This is not my first attempt at using this board. I have successfully uploaded to it before. Most recently, I received an Echo Dot for Christmas and was able to use it with the Huzzah board to control the christmas tree lights.

- I am using the Huzzah breakout board with an Adafruit FTDI cable on a Mac 10.11.6.

- One change from my last successful connection is that I upgraded my Arduino IDE from 1.6.something to 1.8.5

- I have installed the CP210x drivers. When the Huzzah board is attached and I check the Apple System Report, I see FT232R USB UART listed under the USB option. One puzzling thing here is that the release notes say the latest version is 5.0.3, but when I select the FT232R USB UART item in the System Report and look at the details at the bottom of the screen, it shows "Version: 6.00"

- I have tried both the Huzzah board selection and the generic ESP8266, but neither reveals a port to select

- I turned on verbose output during upload and one of the lines shows "opening port /dev/CU.wchusbserial1420 at 115200", which is confusing. I do have that driver installed for my 340G uno like boards (and it does work), but I don't know why it is appearing here, especially since it is not shown in the Apple System Report when the Huzzah is connected.

- I have tried both 2.4 and 2.3 of the esp8266 board manager selection and it does not make a difference.

- I have rebooted the computer and closed the IDE many times and connected/reconnected the Huzzah board and nothing seems to help

Any assistance you could offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Steve

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Re: Huzzah - port not shown issue

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It's the programming cable that your computer will see. You mention using an FTDI cable, but then also mention CP210x drivers. Can you link to the specific cable you are using.

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Re: Huzzah - port not shown issue

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Sure, the cable is yours: https://www.adafruit.com/product/70

It is with this cable that it worked previously.

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Re: Huzzah - port not shown issue

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OK. You shouldn't have to worry about the CP210x drivers for that cable. Those are for this cable:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/954

Sometimes the Arduino upgrade doesn't do a good job of overwriting or cleaning up leftover stuff from a previous version. To force a clean install to the latest version, first delete this folder:
/Users/(username)/Library/Arduino15
and reinstall the Arduino IDE. You might need to reinstall the board support packages as well.

There are also a couple of things to try in the FAQ, see if they might help:
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huz ... /faq#faq-8
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huz ... /faq#faq-9

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Re: Huzzah - port not shown issue

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Ok, I'll give it a shot. Do I need to also delete the CP210 drivers?

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Do I need to also delete the CP210 drivers?
Might as well since you don't have that cable.

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Re: Huzzah - port not shown issue

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I followed your instructions to reinstall the Arduino IDE and I deleted the CP210 drivers, however no port other than the Bluetooth port was available to select.

I was reading your website page about the FTDI friend and found the link (http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm). I assume I had installed these at one time since I had previously been able to upload to the Huzzuh, but thought it couldn't hurt to reinstall - and it now works!

Thank you for your assistance, it is much appreciated!

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Yeah! Glad it's working!

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