Vscode-arduino: Can't Select Serial Port

[rhit-jacksocr]

Issue Type: Bug

I cannot select my serial port. I have tried every fix I can find on google and nothing works

Extension version: 0.2.29
VS Code version: Code 1.43.2 (0ba0ca52957102ca3527cf479571617f0de6ed50, 2020-03-24T07:38:38.248Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 6.1.7601

System Info

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|---|---|
|CPUs|Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710MQ CPU @ 2.50GHz (8 x 2494)|
|GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
flash_3d: enabled
flash_stage3d: enabled
flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
oop_rasterization: disabled_off
protected_video_decode: unavailable_off
rasterization: enabled
skia_renderer: disabled_off_ok
video_decode: enabled
viz_display_compositor: enabled_on
viz_hit_test_surface_layer: disabled_off_ok
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled|
|Load (avg)|undefined|
|Memory (System)|7.88GB (1.04GB free)|
|Process Argv||
|Screen Reader|no|
|VM|0%|

[PeterWone]

Duplicate of #1101, #1099, #1098, #1097

[sukesh-ak]

Duplicate of #1101, #1099, #1098, #1097

Which one should be subscribe to for updates?

[simonl65]

As a workaround:

1. open the folder where your .ino file resides
2. open the .vscode folder
3. edit arduino.json
4. change the port
   e.g.

{
  "port": "COM3"
}

[simonl65]

Related issues: #922 #1105 #1104 #1101 #1099

[sukesh-ak]

As a workaround:

1. open the folder where your .ino file resides
2. open the .vscode folder
3. edit arduino.json
4. change the port
   e.g.

{
  "port": "COM3"
}

That's working only for flashing but not for serial monitor

[Abneco]

This trick didn't work for me, I uninstalled the Visual Studio code, and reinstalled an old version, it was no longer a problem and disabled automatic updates ...

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_41

"update.mode": "none"

[fabnicolas]

@Abneco This workaround works for me but does it exists a portable version of Visual Studio Code?

Right now because of this extension I installed "Visual Studio Code" old version specifically to use vscode-arduino and "Visual Studio Code Insider" for other projects, but I really wanted to simply have a portable vscode designed only for Arduino projects, but I can't find it so far. Telling my team to use a specific version of VSCode on their machine by uninstalling their ones is not acceptable.

Would be nice if this issue is fixed tho to avoid this workaround.

[PeterWone]

@fabnicolas I looked into doing this.

The issue is not in the Arduino extension but in one of its _indirect_ dependencies. A rewrite to use the N-API indirect invocation of native libs is far from trivial due to the complexity of post-installation platform specific build (on which the current implementation relies).

I am currently building an alternative extension that does not suffer from this problem because it works in a completely different way, shelling command line utilities for native integration. This has been a great deal of work and I have not yet decided to make it available for free.

[Abneco]

Personally, I also have to develop on a stable system, I find that this extension is promising but not mature enough, so I chose to work with platformIO https://platformio.org/ compatible with the latest version and much more stable , easy to configure ... PlaformIO has another small drawback, ... acceptable ... this is mainly due to the fact that you must respect c ++

Don't forget to disable or uninstall the Microsoft arduino extension before installing PlatformIO, they are not compatible together

[sukesh-ak]

@Abneco This workaround works for me but does it exists a portable version of Visual Studio Code?

Right now because of this extension I installed "Visual Studio Code" old version specifically to use vscode-arduino and "Visual Studio Code Insider" for other projects, but I really wanted to simply have a portable vscode designed only for Arduino projects, but I can't find it so far. Telling my team to use a specific version of VSCode on their machine by uninstalling their ones is not acceptable.

Would be nice if this issue is fixed tho to avoid this workaround.

There is a new project called Arduino Pro which is trying to build VS Code kind of IDE. But I would not jump ship personally for now.

[sukesh-ak]

Also Arduino has a new project for building a new command line. I guess that will become the main way to compile, flash etc in the future.

[CorentinPacaud]

Will this issue be fixed some day ? or just end of support ?

[kseyhan]

try rebuilding the plugin following the steps from https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-arduino/issues/1113#issuecomment-713100975.

[robotdad]

Prerelease build for the serial port issue is here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-arduino/releases/tag/v0.3.3-rc

I plan to publish a release with this fix tomorrow, Oct 30.

[robotdad]

Resolved in release 0.3.3

[WenukaB]

As a workaround:

1. open the folder where your .ino file resides
2. open the .vscode folder
3. edit arduino.json
4. change the port
   e.g.

{
  "port": "COM3"
}

This prompts the error "The arduino.json file format is not correct."

[WenukaB]

This can probably be due to an issue with Arduino Installation. I had the same issue. I uninstalled the Arduino existing installation and installed the latest version (1.8.13) it fixed the issue.

[simonl65]

This is now fixed with vscode-arduino 0.3.3