Just today, I received two Nano 33 BLE Sense Rev2 boards. Tried plugging them in, they both functioned as they should have, ports were detected etc.
Using PlatformIO in VSCode, I wrote some small code on one of them to try and see the workings of the barometer. It worked as intended. As I was done for that moment, I unplugged everything and went about my day.
When I came back to carry on, I noticed that my computer (MacOS) was not able to detect any port at all on the previously used board (both in Arduino IDE and in VSCode). I tried resetting, flashing and double checked the drivers - nothing. The problem still persisted, so I figured to try the second board.
Using the second board, everything was OK both in Arduino IDE and in VSCode. So using VSCode I uploaded the same small code to the board and it functioned as intended. After that, I tried unplugging the USB and putting it back in - started facing the same issue as described above.
So all in all, I have now have two boards whose ports aren't detected. The power pin and led pin still work on the both of them.
Any ideas on how to address this? I appreciate any thoughts or inputs.
I managed to get a hold of a Windows PC and I was able to get one of the boards to work. I activated the bootloader and some port was detected after that. So I was able to upload new code. It seems that one board now works on MacOS as well.
As for the other board, same issue. Windows was not able to detect it as well even with the bootloader enabled.
I‘m having the same issue. Used my Arduino Nano 33 BLE for some time with the Arduino IDE with no problems. Then I switched to PlatformIO and uploaded my code. All went through without any errors. My macOS machine stopped recognizing the port. I also tried with a Linux machine (Ubuntu) - no luck. I don’t know why this happened. I also double-clicked the reset pin of the Arduino to put it into bootloader mode which lets the orange LED flash. The Arduino still doesn’t get recognized. Maybe somehow the bootloader was broken as it also contains the USB code for the Nano 33 BLE? I don’t have the necessary tools to reflash the bootloader though.
I’ll probably buy another BLE. Really annoying as these things cost 29€ a piece on Amazon. I won’t use PlatformIO for my BLE board until I know why this issue is happening.