Mu Editor Problem with MacBook Air M1

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Mu Editor Problem with MacBook Air M1

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I am having a problem running Mu Editor w/ Adafruit CircuitPython w/ MacBook Air M1. I can edit programs, but cannot connect to the serial REPL. When running with my old x86 MacBook Pro - same version of MacOS - all works fine. FWIW ... running MacOS 11.3 on both machines. It does seem to want to run on Python 3.8 despite upgrading MacOS Python to 3.9.5.

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Re: Mu Editor Problem with MacBook Air M1

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Curiously ... it does seem to work on the M1 under Parallels in a VM using Windows 10 for ARM and Mu Editor.

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Re: Mu Editor Problem with MacBook Air M1

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Which version of Mu are you using? Are you using one of the new betas? You might want to report this at https://github.com/mu-editor/mu/issues as well, especially because of the M1 issue.

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Re: Mu Editor Problem with MacBook Air M1

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Using the latest version. Have reported it there. Rather confusing support platform methinks.

I’m convinced it’s a Mu issue with some subtlety of the M1. The fact it works on Win10 ARM under a VM on the M1 seems absolutely diagnostic.

Also kinda cool.

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Re: Mu Editor Problem with MacBook Air M1

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We have confirmed that the board detection is not working on M1 MacOS, but is working on non-M1 MacOS (same latest version), where is was developed. Now we need to figure out why.

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Re: Mu Editor Problem with MacBook Air M1

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Yay! I trust it will all get resolved. In short term I can use my convoluted workaround.

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Re: Mu Editor Problem with MacBook Air M1

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We filed a PR to mu to fix this and it has been accepted and should be in Mu 1.1.0-beta.5. In the meantime you can delete the build artifact for the PR and try it out:
PR: https://github.com/mu-editor/mu/pull/1580
MacOS build: https://github.com/mu-editor/mu/suites/ ... s/61703887

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