VS Arduino - Serial monitor settings

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Acuario Senior Member Offline Posts: 258 Location: Spain Joined: Aug 28^th, 2015	Serial monitor settings Mar 7^th, 2025 at 5:14pm	Print Post
	Hi, I know you have recently added extra settings to the serial monitor window but is there any way these can be narrower and moved to the right? I frequently use the DTR, RTS and '!' buttons but now they are totally hidden when the serial settings are shown in a narrow serial window. Could these settings go somewhere else? Even including the baud rate - how often do people really change the baud rate and serial settings? But to reset a board and have a crash dump I would imagine is used frequently.

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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12201 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Serial monitor settings Reply #1 - Mar 7^th, 2025 at 8:19pm	Print Post
	Thanks for the report. The new property is supposed to be less important and move to the overflow menu (down arrow on the end) We will add the missing setting for a release over the coming week.


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Acuario Senior Member Offline Posts: 258 Location: Spain Joined: Aug 28^th, 2015	Re: Serial monitor settings Reply #2 - Mar 8^th, 2025 at 6:56am	Print Post
	Great. While you are updating that part of the code any chance of implementing the auto reconnect on an upload failure I suggested here ? https://www.visualmicro.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1702793567


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Simon@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 2807 Joined: Feb 13^th, 2019	Re: Serial monitor settings Reply #3 - Mar 14^th, 2025 at 7:05pm	Print Post
	The latest release (25.0314.0) moves the Stop Bits, Parity and Buffer options to the overflow menu, so the monitor should be more usable again now. We have also implemented the Reconnect after Upload failure, when the Auto-Recon button is enabled at the bottom of the Serial Monitor (if no Debugging is in use). The latest release can be downloaded from the top of the below board: https://www.visualmicro.com/forums/YaBB.pl?board=VS_ARDUINO_EXT_RELEASES
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Acuario Senior Member Offline Posts: 258 Location: Spain Joined: Aug 28^th, 2015	Re: Serial monitor settings Reply #4 - Mar 15^th, 2025 at 4:22am	Print Post
	Hi, great, the options have moved and yes it´s back to how it was, much better - thanks. The reconnect doesn´t seem to work though. I have Auto-Recon enabled and have Release selected and Debug off (in VM). Scenario is this: - I use ESP32 Dev Module, in my case a custom board so only TX/RX are connected, no auto-reset/boot mode so I have to manually put the device into download mode. - I have the Serial monitor open on the COM port connected to my board. - I click upload and the Serial monitor disconnects (as it should). - My upload fails (for whatever reason) - The Serial monitor does not reconnect. The Micro Build shows this: esptool.py v4.6 Serial port COM4 Connecting...................................... A fatal error occurred: Failed to connect to ESP32: No serial data received. For troubleshooting steps visit: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esptool/en/latest/troubleshooting.html The uploader returned an error Hope this helps.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12201 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Serial monitor settings Reply #5 - Mar 15^th, 2025 at 4:25am	Print Post
	If you click connect in the monitor does it then connect?


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Acuario Senior Member Offline Posts: 258 Location: Spain Joined: Aug 28^th, 2015	Re: Serial monitor settings Reply #6 - Mar 15^th, 2025 at 4:46am	Print Post
	Yes it does


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Acuario Senior Member Offline Posts: 258 Location: Spain Joined: Aug 28^th, 2015	Re: Serial monitor settings Reply #7 - Mar 19^th, 2025 at 5:15am	Print Post
	Hi, an update. The reconnect almost works. If the upload is from a build and upload then it does reconnect which is great! The upload supporting files also correctly reconnects on a failure. However if it is from the upload last build then it doesn´t reconnect.


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