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Teensy - Emulated Serial Mode
Feb 15^th, 2016 at 8:53pm

Hi There

Absolutely love visualmicro. Thank you.

I have found a small hole in the Teensy support; The Serial monitor window works fine in standard USB serial mode as there is a COM port.

In other Teensy modes (like USB MIDI), the Serial is actually emulated and there is no COM port. So the Serial monitoring breaks.

I post a link here to Paul Stoffregen giving more details.
https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/23942-Using-Serial-and-MIDI-USB-types-at-the-same...

Perhaps this has broken in this release, or perhaps not implemented yet, not sure.

A Work around for now is to run the arduino IDE at the same time, running the same sketch in the same mode - you can then flip over to see the serial monitor form the arduino IDE instead. I haven't tried debugging yet - I'm stilling working up to it! but I'd imagine there might be impacts there as well?

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Jon

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Reply #1 - Feb 15^th, 2016 at 8:59pm

Thanks for the post it's a useful link.

It's not implemented yet and no debug won't work.

I only found out about it a month or so ago when I asked Paul what changes teensyduino makes to the arduino ide. I thought the that the new 1.6 boards manager system would result in a Teensy core alternative and that's when he told me about the emulated serial port.

So it's on the list and this post is a good reminder. I'll flag it. Thanks!

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Reply #2 - Feb 15^th, 2016 at 9:29pm

Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Feb 15^th, 2016 at 8:59pm:

So it's on the list and this post is a good reminder. I'll flag it. Thanks!

No problem!

For the record - and the benefit of others reading this - there is another fix. You can duplicate the USB_MIDI type, and include the full USB_SERIAL support and the device will operate as both a MIDI device and a Serial COM port. This would be an immediate fix for both serial monitoring and debugging I'd guess. It's a hack, but it would do it.

BUT there is a tradeoff in performance and this is the reason the COM port is only emulated for these modes - the USB bus is not perfect and loading all this functionality up is not free.

So there are not one but 2 workarounds available.

I will do without debugging for now and use the arduino IDE serial monitor.

I just bought a commercial license anyway as visual micro has transformed arduino development into a professional experience for me Wink

Thanks Tim!

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Reply #3 - Aug 14^th, 2016 at 9:01am

Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Feb 15^th, 2016 at 8:59pm:

Just for the record, I havent tested it yet - but apparently the Teensyduino package now features versions of the USB Midi with a hardware serial port out of the box, which means visualmicro will work fine without any further mods and this low priority feature can be removed from your roadmap.

I will confirm here once I've tested this.

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Pensive666 Newbies Offline Posts: 9	Re: Teensy - Emulated Serial Mode Reply #4 - Aug 14^th, 2016 at 9:26am Confirmed with Arduino 1.6.9, and teensyduino 1.29, there are two new board types available: Serial and Midi Serial + Keyboard + mouse +Joystick I'll confirm operation later
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Online Posts: 11006 United Kingdom	Re: Teensy - Emulated Serial Mode Reply #5 - Aug 14^th, 2016 at 1:13pm Interesting, look forward to hearing the result. Thanks very much for the post.
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