Apio does not recognize my icestick, claims "board icestick not connected"

[dburr]

apio 0.8.1 Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

Subject line says it all. I am able to successfully build, verify, and sim (using the icestick/leds example project) however when I attempt to program the board, I get

(.apio_env) [2282] dburr@SDF-1 leds(master) $ apio upload
(DEBUG) Profile path: /home/dburr/.apio/profile.json
(DEBUG) Home_dir: /home/dburr/.apio
(DEBUG) Profile path: /home/dburr/.apio/profile.json
(DEBUG) Home_dir: /home/dburr/.apio
(DEBUG) Run Command: lsusb
(DEBUG) System_base_dir: /home/dburr/.apio/packages/tools-oss-cad-suite
(DEBUG) System bin dir: /home/dburr/.apio/packages/tools-oss-cad-suite/bin
(DEBUG) Executable file: /home/dburr/.apio/packages/tools-oss-cad-suite/bin/lsusb
(DEBUG) Profile path: /home/dburr/.apio/profile.json
(DEBUG) Home_dir: /home/dburr/.apio
(DEBUG) Run Command: lsftdi
(DEBUG) System_base_dir: /home/dburr/.apio/packages/tools-oss-cad-suite
(DEBUG) System bin dir: /home/dburr/.apio/packages/tools-oss-cad-suite/bin
(DEBUG) Executable file: /home/dburr/.apio/packages/tools-oss-cad-suite/bin/lsftdi
Error: board icestick not connected

apio system --lsftdi shows the board correctly:

(.apio_env) [2285] dburr@SDF-1 leds(master) $ apio system --lsftdi
(DEBUG) Profile path: /home/dburr/.apio/profile.json
(DEBUG) Home_dir: /home/dburr/.apio
(DEBUG) Run Command: lsftdi
(DEBUG) System_base_dir: /home/dburr/.apio/packages/tools-oss-cad-suite
(DEBUG) System bin dir: /home/dburr/.apio/packages/tools-oss-cad-suite/bin
(DEBUG) Executable file: /home/dburr/.apio/packages/tools-oss-cad-suite/bin/lsftdi
Number of FTDI devices found: 1
Checking device: 0
Manufacturer: FTDI, Description: Dual RS232-HS

And it also shows up in lsusb:

(.apio_env) [2286] dburr@SDF-1 leds(master) $ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
[...]
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0bda:b720 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11n WLAN Adapter
Bus 003 Device 079: ID 0403:6010 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT2232C/D/H Dual UART/FIFO IC
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5f:0088 Zebra ZTC GX430t
[...]

It is the only USB-serial device connected to my machine.

Udev rules look fine, and I am a member of both plugdev and dialout groups.

I've tried completely nuking apio (including my user config directory) and reinstalling; no change. I've tried setting up apio in its own python virtualenv (in case some other python package is clashing with it); same behavior. I have also tried using this board on a different computer (a MacBook running OS X Big Sur 11.7.1, also running the latest version of apio (0.8.1) with the exact same behavior.

This is probably a fairly new revision of the board -- they have been out of stock at Digikey for a long time, but they just recently got some in stock, so I assume this is new stock. Maybe they changed something in the newer versions of this board?

[dburr]

Upon further investigation, it appears that Lattice changed the ftdi.desc of this board. In boards.json if I change icestick.ftdi.desc to Dual RS232-HS then I am able to successfully upload.

[steka]

Upon further investigation, it appears that Lattice changed the ftdi.desc of this board. In boards.json if I change icestick.ftdi.desc to Dual RS232-HS then I am able to successfully upload.

Thanks for that investigation, it helped me.

[waterwin]

Thanks, solved it for me as well, just bought the Icestick 12-12-2022. Ubuntu 22.04 in Oracle VirtualBox on Windows10.

[avibrown]

Upon further investigation, it appears that Lattice changed the ftdi.desc of this board. In boards.json if I change icestick.ftdi.desc to Dual RS232-HS then I am able to successfully upload.

Thanks for this fix! For anyone else having trouble finding the boards.json file, I found mine under /home/$USER/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/apio/resources

[tempest1140]

Upon further investigation, it appears that Lattice changed the ftdi.desc of this board. In boards.json if I change icestick.ftdi.desc to Dual RS232-HS then I am able to successfully upload.

Thank you! In case anyone still can't find their path after @avielbr 's comment, I found mine under: C:\Users\$USER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\apio\resources