Visual Studio 2022 Device Explorer does not find the device

grallbring commented 3 months ago

Tool

Visual Studio extension

Description

Hello, I have a esp32-s3-touch-lcd-1.28 (https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-1.28) and I'm trying to develop something for it using the nanoFramework. When trying to flash using nanoff (command: nanoff --update --serialport COM4 --baud 115200 --verbosity diag) the progress simply gets stuck at the Flashing firmware... step and nothing happenes (waited around 10 minutes). When adding --masserase the flashing works with a simple green Ok after Flashing firmware... and I can also connect to it with putty and see the various booting messages.

Still, the device is neither found by the Device Explorer window in Visual Studio 2022 nor by the nanoff --listdevices command.

How to reproduce

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Expected behaviour

The device should show up in the Device Explorer window and when using the nanoff --listdevices command.

Screenshots

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Aditional context

Extension Version: 2022.3.0.78 Visual Studio 2022 Version: 17.10.1 Visual Studio Output:

23:28:37.406 [NanoDevices: dropping device in exclusion list COM1]
23:28:37.406 [NanoDevices: new device arrival COM4]
23:28:37.416 [NanoDevices: candidate nano device COM4]
23:28:37.431 [NanoDevices: checking device  COM4 @ 921600]
23:28:38.445 [NanoDevices: checking device  COM4 @ 460800]
23:28:39.451 [NanoDevices: checking device  COM4 @ 115200]
23:28:42.438 [NanoDevices: checking device  COM4 *** 2nd attempt ***]
23:28:42.439 [NanoDevices: checking device  COM4 @ 921600]
23:28:44.445 [NanoDevices: checking device  COM4 @ 460800]
23:28:46.451 [NanoDevices: checking device  COM4 @ 115200]
23:28:48.975 [NanoDevices: quitting device COM4]
23:28:48.976 [NanoDevices: Serial device enumeration completed. Found 0 devices]

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networkfusion commented 3 months ago

Try nanoff --platform esp32 --serialport COM4 --update

AdrianSoundy commented 3 months ago

The command @networkfusion menioned will upload the generic _ESP32S3 firmware There is another which may be better which includes a generic display driver. Although it doesn't currently support your display type it should be able to with a lttle work looking at specs of device.

Use comand for this firmware nanoff -target ESP32_S3_BLE --serialport COM4 --update

On first load after flashing the S3 can take upto 30 secs before its visible to Visual studio.

grallbring commented 3 months ago

Thanks for your answers, I've tried nanoff --platform esp32 --serialport COM4 --update - this simply gets stuck at the Flashing firmware... message and nothing further happens (no additional output is shown when adding --verbosity diag). I've also tried the command with --target ESP32_S3_BLE and --target ESP32_S3_ALL. Both only flash when adding the --masserase flag. I also tried using esptool directly and erasing the flash before running the commands but it doesn't change anything. In conclusion, the flashing of the firmware only seems to work when using the --masserase flag, but even then the device isn't detected by either nanoff --listdevices or by the Device Explorer in Visual Studio.

I also tried waiting a couple of minutes after flashing the firmware, restarting Visual Studio, unplugging and replugging the device, to no avail sadly.

AdrianSoundy commented 3 months ago

What device board are you using ?

grallbring commented 3 months ago

As mentioned in the first post a esp32-s3-touch-lcd-1.28 (link: https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-1.28).

AdrianSoundy commented 3 months ago

I just looked at the device and I see the problem. The usb port is connected via a usb to serial chip to the uart on the ESP32_S3. Our firmware expects the connection to use the direct USB connection. A new firmware would need to be built to support this device.

Are you able to build your own firmware ? See https://docs.nanoframework.net/content/building/using-dev-container.html

You would need to make a copy of the ESP32_S3_BLE config and turn off the option "ESP32_USB_CDC"

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