VS Arduino - Network or Port discovery error!

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Network or Port discovery error! (Read 4194 times)

Harrzack Member Offline Posts: 133 Location: Lindenwold, NJ USA Joined: Dec 28^th, 2012	Network or Port discovery error! Dec 16^th, 2014 at 3:38pm	Print Post
	Have just installed the latest VM update - now constantly getting the dreded "Network or port discovery..." error. Have not found any info on how to remove this - the displayed error message is somewhat generic and rather unhelpful. I'm running VisualStudio 2013 on up-to-date Windows 7 64b. Now working with a Mega Pro - using 3 of it's serial ports via FTDI breakout boards. It appears this error is benign - but would like to make it go away and fix whatever it is upset with. =Alan R.


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Gillian Junior Member Offline Posts: 31 Joined: Nov 28^th, 2014	Re: Network or Port discovery error! Reply #1 - Dec 16^th, 2014 at 3:57pm	Print Post
	Hello, Go in Tools, Options, Visual Micro and set Network Discovery to False If your VM also hang forever sometimes (or always), also set Friendly Port Lists and Friendly Port Menus to False


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Network or Port discovery error! Reply #2 - Dec 16^th, 2014 at 4:06pm	Print Post
	This means your windows wmi/device database is not working properly (normally corrupt and needs repair). Visual Micro uses that to find the full names of ports. If you switch off the 3 settings described below then just the COMn names are displayed and you will no longer see the error.


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Harrzack Member Offline Posts: 133 Location: Lindenwold, NJ USA Joined: Dec 28^th, 2012	Re: Network or Port discovery error! Reply #3 - Dec 16^th, 2014 at 4:17pm	Print Post
	Ok! Thanks for that pointer - figgered it should be something easy.


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Gillian Junior Member Offline Posts: 31 Joined: Nov 28^th, 2014	Re: Network or Port discovery error! Reply #4 - Dec 16^th, 2014 at 4:46pm	Print Post
	Tim, Maybe those options should be disabled by default


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Network or Port discovery error! Reply #5 - Dec 16^th, 2014 at 6:01pm	Print Post
	They auto disable if they hit an error but a corrupted wmi database doesn't always produce errors. Just returns crap data. Unfortunately it works well for 99% of users. I'm looking for an alternative.


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