oddson
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Well this a bit of a NOOB issue from someone that's been using Teensy off and on for several years.
How do you (reliably and quickly) restore lost Serial Monitor port connections with a Teensy so that you can actually use Serial.print() for debugging/development?
I almost replied to the 'what's your favourite debugging technique' thread to say sending/MIDI messages to a software program (in my case Flowstone) because I cannot maintain a reliable serial connection between Teensy and my PC between rebuilds.
I'm running W7 sp1 on an ancient Frankendesktop.
The problem is the port menu becomes greyed out and reads "Port (emulated serial)". Other times it may offer Port 1 but not 6 or 8 where the Teensy usually show up.
I don't know if the problem is limited to MIDI builds since that's almost exclusively what I use Teensy for.
Sometimes normal behaviour is restored by reloading, sometimes by pushing the programming button and other times it just seems to be randomly working and not working.
Before I switch back to Macintosh (after 20 years away) is there some simple thing I'm missing to keep a serial connection port open between T & PC and/or to quickly restore it when dropped?
I suspect it's a caching problem but I don't know enough about Windows to know how to fix without rebooting (which also doesnt' seem to always resolve the issue).
How do you (reliably and quickly) restore lost Serial Monitor port connections with a Teensy so that you can actually use Serial.print() for debugging/development?
I almost replied to the 'what's your favourite debugging technique' thread to say sending/MIDI messages to a software program (in my case Flowstone) because I cannot maintain a reliable serial connection between Teensy and my PC between rebuilds.
I'm running W7 sp1 on an ancient Frankendesktop.
The problem is the port menu becomes greyed out and reads "Port (emulated serial)". Other times it may offer Port 1 but not 6 or 8 where the Teensy usually show up.
I don't know if the problem is limited to MIDI builds since that's almost exclusively what I use Teensy for.
Sometimes normal behaviour is restored by reloading, sometimes by pushing the programming button and other times it just seems to be randomly working and not working.
Before I switch back to Macintosh (after 20 years away) is there some simple thing I'm missing to keep a serial connection port open between T & PC and/or to quickly restore it when dropped?
I suspect it's a caching problem but I don't know enough about Windows to know how to fix without rebooting (which also doesnt' seem to always resolve the issue).
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