Ok so I thought I’d give Temu a shot, seen some Arduino boards and got the price you can’t beat it, turns out it’s not that easy, arduino ide nor my computer recognizes the arduino I’ve tried to download multiple ch341 and ch340 drives but they always fail to install anyone have any idea how I can get them to connect, turns out my boards don’t have serial Interface, my laptop is a Lenovo running windows 10 64x
Trying to program my arduino mini through my arduino nano
You sound surprised but I am not sure why. Given that, how did you think that installing serial to USB drivers would help ?
What problems are you having programming the board using a Nano ?
How are they connected and powered ?
Followed this video on YouTube to wire it using my nano to program my mini
My problem is connecting it to arduino ide, and my computer doesn’t recognize my cloned board just says usb serial
I am sure it will come as no consolation to you but I can program a Pro Mini using a classic Nano by following that video
Things to check
I use Linux and have no problems. They may not show with a name but the port shows and they work. Currently my Nano is showing "/dev/ttyUSB0 which works fine for me."
See I was thinking that, have an external Hard drive with Ubuntu on it, will the coding be different or the same
Probably the only thing you will see is it compiles faster. For me it was a noticeable difference. You will also find workspaces in Mint. Each of those is a separate window and you can switch with a key press or a click of the mouse. I can run the compiler and IDE on different code in each workspace. I use one for email. Several for the Arduino's and two for the internet. You can have stuff running independently in each workspace. I have had playing around 5 Arduino's connected and dumping stuff to there individual IDE, no problem. For me it is like 8 computers on 1 monitor. The number of workspaces is up to you. You can add or remove at will no rebooting etc. Let us know how you like it. I use Genny as my editor it works great. The only quirky thing is switching to and from an external editor. It changes all occurrences of the IDE most of the time.
Ok I’ll give it a try, might have to update Ubuntu I’ll let you know if it works for me
Play with it. I put it on a USB stick and it installs fairly fast, maybe about 20 minutes. Follow first steps, it will be a big help in configuring. You will find that it uses a lot less disk space. LiberOffice comes with it, it is not bad. It will automatically set up networking, monitor, etc automatically when it is installed. I like it and have not used windoze since 95.
In your first picture it shows that you have the Nano selected but you should have the Pro Mini selected. All the Nano does is to pass the serial connection to the Pro Mini
Yeah I did that too, disconnected the mini, tried to see if it would just read the nano by its self no luck, the port option will still stay grayed out
Unplug everything from the Nano then plug it into USB. Is the board recognised by you Operating System and is a COM port created ?
You will get nowhere until it is. Have you ever been able to upload code to the Nano ?
See that’s my issues it won’t recognize it as a com port it reads it as a usb serial, that’s why I’ve been trying to install the ch340-ch341 drivers, once installed it will read my knock off clone as a com port, just got them so no haven’t been able to upload any code cause it won’t read it
This is one of the thousands of videos I seen and tired installing the drivers but to no avail, with out the drivers my computer won’t recognize my clone Arduino went as far as to turn off my ani virus
Which Operating System are you using ?
Your board is a PRO Mini. It does not have any USB to Serial capabilities. You will need one of these
eBay has a gazillion different ones, take your pick.
I use a lot of Pro Mini's. Small and once deployed there is no need for the USB input of the Nano.
Not so
The solution being explored in this topic uses the Nano as the serial interface to the PC and for the Nano to pass on the data received over its serial interface to the Pro Mini. To do this it is required that the PC can communicate with the Nano
Your right of course, its the one I use and it came to my mind first. There are many possibilities, I imagine any Arduino board with a USB interface will do.
I like the FTDI (or clone) because it's a dedicated resource, I made a special cable and it is easy to use, programs both 3.3 and 5V parts. I also put a jumper in my cable to allow for external power source to the board being programmed.
The OP linked a 5V Pro Mini, Not sure if the Nano will program that board.
Ok so my question is how do I install the drivers so my computer windows 10 can read the clone boards as a com port and not usb serial, once I get them to read I’ll have no problem programming them just need to figure out that rn how to get my computer to recognize them as a com port, followed lots of videos on YouTube been on a lot of threads but to no avail
Open Device Manager in Windows and enable "Show hidden Devices". Plug the Nano into USB. What happens ?
