Hi, I'm new to using Arduino. Just installed IDE 2 and have tried to connect a Nano board to use as a tutorial board to learn. I've also tried to connect an ESP32 WROOM 32 board that I want to use when I've started to understand how these things work.
However, the IDE software can only see one COM line (COM06) and I figured that it was a COM line that IDE set up for communicating with boards. When I try to connect and upload the simple blink example, the upload fails as IDE can't connect to any boards on the given COM channel.
Any tip to what I can do to get around this issue? I don't expect any trouble once the IDE can upload things to the board.
I moved your topic to an appropriate forum category @otigiga.
In the future, please take some time to pick the forum category that best suits the subject of your topic. There is an "About the _____ category" topic at the top of each category that explains its purpose.
Please perform this experiment to verify that port is really your Arduino board:
Disconnect the USB cable of the Arduino board from your computer.
Select Tools > Port from the Arduino IDE menus.
Take note of the ports, if any, listed in the menu.
Close the Tools menu. The ports list is only updated when the Tools menu is re-opened, so this step is essential.
Connect the Arduino board to your computer with a USB cable.
Select Tools > Port from the Arduino IDE menus. - If a new port is listed in the menu, that is the port of your Arduino board.
Select that port from the menu and try uploading again.
If the upload still fails, or if no new port appeared after you plugged the Arduino board into your computer, add a reply here to let us know and we'll investigate the problem further.
The ports list is only updated when the Tools menu is re-opened, so this step is essential.