UNO R4 WIFI unable to connect to MAC Studio M1

Hardware UNO R4 UNO R4 WiFi
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I have tried adding zero drivers, no connection. I added zero drivers on my MacBook Pro Laptop using Catalina OS, and it recognized FINE, ports and all.
My Mac Studio M1 MAX with Ventura OS, not quite so lucky.

I have installed over 6 different drivers recommended on the web, no good.
I have used different usb cables, different slots on the Mac Studio, I have also tried three different versions of Arduino IDE, and different boards from with the IDE, and ALL HAVE FAILED ME.

All I get for my efforts is a constant spinning of the Arduino infinity logo.

Has anyone in the forum had similar problem and what was your remedy?

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Did you try wating longer.

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Being Apple it probably requires some $400 adapter that you can only buy from them.

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Hi @usaf-retired-msgt.

This description sounds somewhat like the Arduino IDE startup animation (except the animation is a pulsing Arduino logo rather than spinning). I have never seen a spinning Arduino logo. Are you certain it is spinning?

Various problems with your system can cause the IDE to hang on startup, in which case it remains forever on that startup animation rather than loading the full Arduino IDE interface and sketch editor as usual. Is that what is happening to you?

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Or you can use the online version of the Arduino ide. Which may work.

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My Bad, you are correct. It is not a spinning logo, but the logo pulses (smaller then larger then smaller, .......)

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Do you think a mere 4 hours is long enough to get past the startup logo?

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I did not realize there was an online version in the first place, but NO, I won't be going that route. There is a monthly charge for the thing.

But to continue testing different options, maybe I'll take the 30 Free Trial to see what I get.

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Thanks for the clarification. I'm going to ask you to provide some additional information that might help us to identify the problem.

:exclamation: This procedure is not intended to solve the problem. The purpose is to gather more information.

Please do this:

  1. Close all Arduino IDE windows if the IDE is already running.
  2. Open macOS Launchpad.
  3. Type terminal in the "Search" field.
  4. Click on the "Terminal" icon.
    A "zsh" window will open.
  5. Type the following command in the zsh window:
    "/Applications/Arduino IDE.app/Contents/MacOS/Arduino IDE"
  6. Press the Enter key.
  7. Wait until you are sure the IDE startup has gone into the hang state
    (as indicated by no additional output being printed to the Terminal window).
  8. Switch back to the Terminal window if the Arduino IDE window took the focus.
  9. Press the Command+A keyboard shortcut.
    This will select all the text in the Terminal window.
  10. Press the Command+C keyboard shortcut.
    This will copy the selected text to the clipboard.
  11. Open a forum reply here by clicking the "Reply" button.
  12. Click the <CODE/> icon on the post composer toolbar.
    This will add the forum's code block markup (```) to your reply to make sure the output is correctly formatted.
    Code block icon on toolbar
  13. Press the Command+V keyboard shortcut.
    This will paste the output into the code block.
  14. Move the cursor outside of the code block markup before you add any additional text to your reply.
  15. Click the "Reply" button to post the output.

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

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For what it's worth - I have been using an UNO R4 Wifi with a Mac Studio M1 under Ventura for ~4 months or so now with no problems other than when the Mac goes to sleep and then wakes up the serial monitor stops working - which is not unexpected behavior. I didn't have to add any drivers. It just worked day one out of the box with version 2.3.2 of the IDE. So, at least we know that combination should work. On the other hand the SSL library just stopped working randomly so there's that to deal with - it looks like it updated on 06-20-24. Wish I had a better answer for you.

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My UNO R4 WiFi worked out of the box on my Mac Studio M1 on day one (07/22/24) Arduino IDE v2.3.2 and macOS Sonoma 14.5. Port /dev/cu.usbmodem34B7DA637D602. I am using high-quality USB-C cables connected to USB-C ports on back of Mac Studio M1 or the Apple Studio Display port. I am not using the USB-C cable provided with the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi because I already had high-quality USB-C cables available. I am not using the front USB-C ports on the Mac Studio M1 to connect to the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi.