Jack bridge software. To uninstall the VCP driver from a Mac OS machine, just drag the driver to the trash from the System/Library/Extensions folder (SilabsUSBDriver) and then reboot the machine.
To verify if a driver is present, plug in a CP210x device and check the /dev directory for a device named 'tty.SLAB_USBtoUART'. If this is not present, it means no VCP driver is active, or that the CP210x device has a VID/PID combination that does not match the driver installed. The VID/PID can be found in the device listing in the System Profiler (even if a corresponding driver is not installed).
The NodeMCU is using USB 2 Serial Communication called CH340, you can download the driver at the link below, you have to install the driver package as you used the NodeMCU on Mac. After you install the CH340 driver you need to test the serial communication by filtering using a bash command see it below.
Nov 9, 2019 9:35 AM
A few days ago a package arrived from SeeedStudio: the new NodeMCU board V1.0 (see picture)The NodeMCU V1.0 (picture from here) |
On paper it has some nice advantages compared to the old V0.9 version or also to other ESP8266 dev boards: you can directly connect it to your computer for programming and you won’t need an additional USB-to-Serial programmer or an external power supply. The USB connector does the job. The only problem: they must have changed something on the interface. Flashing doesn’t work out of the box anymore:
I’m programming on a Mac, so all the fancy Windows based flashing tools won’t work for me directly. I usually use the adapted Arduino IDE or the esptool.py to upload new images to the device. This posts describes how you can flash the new hardware despite the problems with the esptool. Basically it shows how you can use the original Windows tool from Espressif from your Mac OS X system, even if it is made for Windows.
I had to work around some issues with brew and wine. Write a comment if you want to know how I resolved them…
ESP Flash Tool started from wine: adjust the settings accordingly |
I hope that the esptool gets fixed quickly to work with the new hardware. I’m also not sure whether the problems comes from the USB-to-Serial converter or rather from the ESP-12E module. I suspect it is the later, but I couldn’t find anyone complaining about problems with the ESP-12E in general.
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