My Arduino doesn’t show the keyboard in the Tools->Ports menu. https://i.imgur.com/hySfzZn.png COM1 and COM3 are obviously wrong. I’m on Windows7. I did install usb drivers during the arduino installation. Restarted the pc. Tried 3 different usb ports. Tried running Arduino in admin mode. No luck …

What other ways are there to flash the firmware hex file on windows? Other than using the Arduino IDE/avrdude or Keyboardio’s Makefile, both of which don’t work for me. It’s not so easy beacuse the flashing software has to be configured to work with the Keyboardio keyboard, and there’s no documentat…

If you’re able to type, it’s not your USB cable. It’s also not likely to be your keyboard. There’s something up, either with Windows 7 in general or with your Windows 7 box in particular that’s causing the issue. Both our Makefiles and the Arduino core use avrdude, which is the tool we’ve been usin…

I’m building out a machine to run Windows 7. Given that it’s already 1 AM, my guess is I won’t have a working environment to debug it with until sometime tomorrow. Then, I should be able to get to the bottom of this relatively quickly. Famous last words?

[image] Windows instructions to build firmware I can (and will) install Windows 7 on a test machine in the next day or two if this hasn’t been sorted out by then. @rumpel : I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that I’ve built a Windows 7 box to replicate your issue and work to reso…

I believe what we need to do is to put together an .inf file for Windows 7 (and possibly Windows 8) to associate our USB VID/PID with the right serial driver. This isn’t a game I’ve played before, but it’s something that looks doable. EDIT: This is what we need to do: https://forum.arduino.cc/index…

[image] Windows instructions to build firmware Edit: the title is “Windows Instructions to build firmware” but the discussion is all about this Win7 bug. The FAQ mentions: “Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.” but for the life of m…

I just went through the Windows 10 process, and COM3 was the only option the Arduino IDE gave me. When I pushed firmware at that port, it flashed the board. Are you certain those ports were busy with other components?

Absolutely sure. I also tried reassigning the keyboard to other unused COM ports, including port 1 (after freeing it up).

[image] Jennigma: I just went through the Windows 10 process, and COM3 was the only option the Arduino IDE gave me. When I pushed firmware at that port, it flashed the board. Are you certain those ports were busy with other components? @Jennigma - This is something Microsoft “fixed” in Windo…

@jesse I’m very glad to hear that! :slight_smile:

Windows 7: COM Port for Model 01 not showing up

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jesse (Jesse) October 23, 2017, 6:07am 14

Sorry. I think it takes an admin to break a subthread out into a new topic. I’ll do that now. I’m deep into trying to triage the Windows 7 issue @rumpel raised.

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Windows 7: COM Port for Model 01 not showing up

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