Serial discovery tool not installed IDE 2.0.3

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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Hi all,

It looks like IDE 2.0.3 won't install the serial detection tool for me, the folder remains empty except for the license text file.

I've tried removing the folder and running IDE as an administrator, but the same result.
I've also tried manually moving the code from github into the folder, but that doesn't work either.
The board (uno) is discovered in Windows 10, so that's not the issue.

Do you have a manual install?

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Hi @pownhaas.

This problem is usually caused by the antivirus software quarantining the serial-discovery.exe file while Arduino IDE (Actually its helper tool Arduino CLI) is attempting to install it.

I recommend checking your antivirus software to see whether this is the case. Although it is possible to manually install the serial-discovery tool, Arduino IDE periodically installs updates of the tool, so it will be more efficient to find and resolve the cause of the failed installation instead of having serial port discovery periodically stop working until you find the cause of a failed update and do another manual installation.

Yes. I'll provide instructions:

  1. Open the project's "Releases" page in your browser:
    Releases · arduino/serial-discovery · GitHub
  2. On that page, find the release for the missing version (likely "1.3.2" in this case).
  3. There will be a list of download links under the "Assets" section of the release (if you can't see the links, click on "Assets" to expand the section). Find the download link for your operating system and click it.
    In this case, the correct link will be named "serial-discovery_v1.3.2_Windows_64bit.zip"
  4. Wait for the download to finish.
  5. Extract the downloaded file.
  6. Copy the serial-discovery executable to the empty installation folder.
    For example:
    C:\Users\per\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\builtin\tools\serial-discovery\1.3.2
  7. Restart Arduino IDE if it is running.

Please let me know if you have any questions or problems while following those instructions.

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Thank you for the clear instructions. The .exe file disappears quickly after extracting the .zip, so I think the antivirus is the culprit. It's a work laptop so I can't disable it now. I'll take it to IT and get back to you.

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You are welcome. I'm sorry even the manual installation method was interfered with.

I definitely don't recommend disabling antivirus software (other than perhaps temporarily for the course of a troubleshooting experiment). Instead, I recommend configuring the antivirus to allow the specific file/folder/process it was previously interfering with.

I'm sure the IT department will be able to assist with that configuration.

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