My Mac appears to recognize /dev/cu.usbserial-0001 (an ESP8266 board) as a hostname and tries to connect to it over WiFi instead of using the USB cable. Turning off WiFi on the Mac partially solves the problem, but the following error remains. Any idea how to deal with this?
(venv) (base) Peters-Personal-MacBook-Pro:banana-car petermchale$ rshell --port /dev/cu.usbserial-0001 --debug
Debug = True
Port = /dev/cu.usbserial-0001
Baud = 115200
User = micro
Password = python
Wait = 0
List = 0
nocolor = 0
ascii = 0
Timing = 0
Quiet = 0
BUFFER_SIZE = 512
Cmd = []
Using buffer-size of 32
Connecting to /dev/cu.usbserial-0001 (buffer-size 32)...
Trying to connect to REPL connected
Retrieving sysname ... ----- About to send 205 bytes of code to the pyboard -----
def sysname():
try:
import os
return repr(os.uname().sysname)
except:
return repr('unknown')
output = sysname()
if output is None:
print("None")
else:
print(output)
-----
-----Response-----
b"'esp8266'\r\n"
-----
esp8266
Testing if ubinascii.unhexlify exists ... ----- About to send 224 bytes of code to the pyboard -----
def test_unhexlify():
import ubinascii
try:
_ = ubinascii.unhexlify
return True
except:
return False
output = test_unhexlify()
if output is None:
print("None")
else:
print(output)
-----
-----Response-----
b'True\r\n'
-----
Y
Retrieving root directories ... ----- About to send 150 bytes of code to the pyboard -----
def listdir(dirname):
import os
return os.listdir(dirname)
output = listdir('/')
if output is None:
print("None")
else:
print(output)
-----
-----Response-----
b''
-----
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/petermchale/Desktop/iot/MicroPython-and-the-Internet-of-Things/banana-car/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rshell/main.py", line 1381, in connect
ip_address = socket.gethostbyname(port)
socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/petermchale/Desktop/iot/MicroPython-and-the-Internet-of-Things/banana-car/venv/bin/rshell", line 33, in <module>
sys.exit(load_entry_point('rshell==0.0.31', 'console_scripts', 'rshell')())
File "/Users/petermchale/Desktop/iot/MicroPython-and-the-Internet-of-Things/banana-car/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rshell/command_line.py", line 4, in main
rshell.main.main()
File "/Users/petermchale/Desktop/iot/MicroPython-and-the-Internet-of-Things/banana-car/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rshell/main.py", line 3082, in main
real_main()
File "/Users/petermchale/Desktop/iot/MicroPython-and-the-Internet-of-Things/banana-car/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rshell/main.py", line 3044, in real_main
connect(args.port, baud=args.baud, wait=args.wait, user=args.user, password=args.password)
File "/Users/petermchale/Desktop/iot/MicroPython-and-the-Internet-of-Things/banana-car/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rshell/main.py", line 1387, in connect
connect_serial(port, baud=baud, wait=wait)
File "/Users/petermchale/Desktop/iot/MicroPython-and-the-Internet-of-Things/banana-car/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rshell/main.py", line 1411, in connect_serial
dev = DeviceSerial(port, baud, wait)
File "/Users/petermchale/Desktop/iot/MicroPython-and-the-Internet-of-Things/banana-car/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rshell/main.py", line 1742, in __init__
Device.__init__(self, pyb)
File "/Users/petermchale/Desktop/iot/MicroPython-and-the-Internet-of-Things/banana-car/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rshell/main.py", line 1508, in __init__
self.root_dirs = ['/{}/'.format(dir) for dir in self.remote_eval(listdir, '/')]
File "/Users/petermchale/Desktop/iot/MicroPython-and-the-Internet-of-Things/banana-car/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rshell/main.py", line 1630, in remote_eval
return eval(self.remote(func, *args, **kwargs))
File "<string>", line 0
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing
(venv) (base) Peters-Personal-MacBook-Pro:banana-car petermchale$
My Mac appears to recognize
/dev/cu.usbserial-0001(an ESP8266 board) as a hostname and tries to connect to it over WiFi instead of using the USB cable. Turning off WiFi on the Mac partially solves the problem, but the following error remains. Any idea how to deal with this?