I have tried this in both Windows and Mint and so far can't get my nano BLE 33 Sense to find a port. When I open the IDE all I get is a grayed (greyed?) out option with ports and no way of selecting or changing a port.
The IDE says at the bottom of the frame "Arduino Nano 33 BLE on COM1" but as mentioned, the option is not available under tools.
How do I get a port?
If not mistaken, your board uses a microUSB connector. If so, microUSB cables come in two flavours, charge-only cables and data cables. Use a data cable (e.g. the one that you use to download pictures from yur phone).
I am using a cable off of my digitial camera - complete with a choke.
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I have tried this in both Windows and Mint and so far can't get my nano BLE 33 Sense to find a port. When I open the IDE all I get is a grayed (greyed?) out option with ports and no way of selecting or changing a port.
The IDE says at the bottom of the frame "Arduino Nano 33 BLE on COM1" but as mentioned, the option is not available under tools.
How do I get a port?
The IDE will say that regardless of whether a board is connected.
Check your USB cable. Shorter is usually better and make sure it is not just a power cable without data lines.
You should hear a connect sound in Windows when you connect your Arduino to your PC.
Check your Windows Device Manager. You should see a COM port with Arduino Nano 33 BLE ... . When you check the driver it should say Arduino SA.
You should be able to switch between normal (single click on Reset button) and bootloader mode (double click) and see two different COM ports. And you should hear Windows connect sounds.
Are your LEDs active (green power), orange blinking when in bootloader mode?
The Arduino Nano 33 IOT and BLE use native USB. The USB stack is handled by the same processor that your sketch runs on. It is handled in the background, but that means your sketch can break the USB stack. In that case switch to bootloader mode and program a new sketch.
Just to be through I checked under each possible item in Device Manager and didn't see anything showing a com port for Arduino.
LEDs are going from red to green. One flickers to green very quickly, the other is fairly rythmic.
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