Betaflight-configurator: MacBook Pro won't detect drone

[FreshCoastDon]

Hello,

This is my first post, so easy on the roasting please and thank you. Anyways, I was able to install Beta Flight Configurator 10.6.0 and the CP210X drivers fairly easy. When I have Beta Flight up and connect my drone via usb c cable, nothing happens. I have tried it as auto-connect and manually pushing connect to no avail. Any ideas on what may be causing this connection issue? I have also verified the cables, all are good. I have also tried a LiPo battery attached and not attached while connecting and nada. I can provide screen shots if you have any input as well.

[b3rgman]

I am having the same problem. Do I need to specify a certain com port?

[FreshCoastDon]

I'm not sure myself... I'm going to try it on my work laptop and go from there until I can find a solution. My drone is kind of sitting here and I'm itching to fly it.

Anyone else in the community care to chime in? Thanks in advance...

[b3rgman]

I switched to Mac recently. It used to work for me on Windows. I made sure the firewall has allowed the connections from BetaFlight as well as the CP210 driver. I cant get it to pick up the driver. My guess is its Catalina and I am not being promted for something.

[jokster945]

I'm having the exact same problem. Anyone have a fix yet?

[etracer65]

For modern flight controllers you don't need to install any drivers on MacOS. Try using a different USB cable - some are only charging cables and don't have the data lines connected.

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[FreshCoastDon]

hey guys, I was finally able to connect my drone to my MAC. Thanks for the assists and tips here.

[iBreaker]

@FreshCoastDon hi, I have the same problem. How to fix this.? thanks.

OSX 10.15.2

[kholder116]

hey guys, I was finally able to connect my drone to my MAC. Thanks for the assists and tips here.

can you please tell us how you were finally able to connect to your MAC.... I'm ready to throw this drone out the window... I feel as though I should never have upgraded to Betaflight 01.7.0, it was working perfectly before ..

[kholder116]

Has anyone else had this c- cable MAC not connecting to Betaflight issue and finally resolved it. If so , could you post what you did.
thanks.

[Brocknelson12]

Anyone had any success? It won't show up on my usb devices on my Mac and I can't connect through beta flight either

[etracer65]

@Brocknelson12 Works just fine. No problems connecting when using Mac. Most of the time the problem people have is a bad cable. You must use a real USB data cable and not just a charging cable like which came with your phone. If you try another cable and it still doesn't work, then try more cables.

[Brocknelson12]

Okay i tried with a cable that ive used to write to other devices(tinyduino) so i know its a data cable. I have mac OS Catalina 10.15.7. And DYS f4 pro v2. I have read that the new Driverkit only supports CP2102(for SILabs) and i am not sure that my flight controller uses that or not.

[mikeller]

@Brocknelson12: No, the DYSF4PRO uses VCP. This works just fine with MacOS Catalina if the correct cable is used.

[skywinder]

~same issue on 10.7.0 have no idea how to fix.~

UPDATE:
it was solved by replacing micro usb cable to another one.