Badger W not being detected by thonny.

[Crispymug]

My Badger W won't appear in Thonny. I've reflashed the firmware multiple times and even performed a flash nuke then a reflash but the Badger won't appear as a Serial device and thonny isn't able to connect to the Badger.
Is it an issue with the device or with how I'm handling the software?

[helgibbons]

Hmm, if you're able to flash firmware to it that suggests the board is still working. What UF2 are you flashing to the board? Do you have 'MicroPython (Raspberry Pi Pico)' selected as your interpreter in Thonny?

You might need to press stop (or the reset button on the board and then stop) in Thonny to interrupt the board if it's in the middle of running code?

If that doesn't help, perhaps you could post a screenshot or video showing what's happening when you try and select the board in Thonny and we'll see what else we can suggest (feel free to drop us a support ticket if that's easier for sending files).

[Gadgetoid]

Might be worth also trying “flash_nuke.uf2” (https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/099/419/original/flash_nuke.uf2?1613329170 ) which will completely erase the flash and eliminate any startup scripts blocking Thonny. In theory the “with_badger_os” builds should do this.

I ran into a similar problem testing some new builds and improvements. It seems catching Badger at the right time can be tricky - I find hitting reset on the board and hitting reset in Thonny quickly after helps.

Might be a good idea for us to implement an escape key- a button you hold down to prevent the Badger software from launching at startup and potentially blocking Thonny.

[Crispymug]

I've tried the flash nuke and have just tried the rest on both the Badger and thonny.

Thonny simply can't detect the badger as a device and windows can't either. I've tried the included cable and a few known good data cables and it still doesn't work.
What steps do I take now?

[Crispymug]

[Crispymug]

I'm assuming my badge is just a brick then. Thanks for attempting to help.

[helgibbons]

Sorry for the lack of reply here - drop us a support ticket with a link to this issue if you haven't already and we'll get a return/replacement sorted for you.

[chrissyhroberts]

Just adding to this thread, I had a similar issue on a specific Mac. I couldn’t get Thonny to connect to either of two Badgers running OS above 0.3. Both would connect to Thonny when running 0.3.

Moving to another clean mac and also to a PC I was able to connect to badger with 0.5

Going back to my problem Mac, I found that by resetting Thonny helped.
I deleted the library folder with rm -rf ~/Library/Thonny and this fixed the issue

I was then able to connect badger with OS 0.5

[diegomarino]

Hi there,

I've been suffering the same issue and to solve it I juse followed two of the suggested steps:

1. Delete the library folder with rm -rf ~/Library/Thonny
2. Install the latest release marked with-badger-os
3. Restart the computer...

My env is a Macbook Air M2 running OSX 14.0 and Thonny 4.1.4

If I experience again the error, I'll share with you the backend.log

[diegomarino]

Just happened again... Sharing my backend.log. The board becomes unresponsive when it's connected to Thonny (trying both Settings>>>Interpreter Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2020 detecting the port automatically)

12:44:43.818 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: Thonny version: 4.1.4
12:44:43.818 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: cwd: /Users/diego
12:44:43.818 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: original argv: ['/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python', '-s', '-u', '-B', '/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/thonny/plugins/rp2040/rp2040_back.py', "{'clean': False, 'port': '/dev/cu.usbmodem1101', 'dtr': None, 'rts': None, 'submit_mode': 'raw_paste', 'interrupt_on_connect': True, 'write_block_size': 64, 'write_block_delay': None, 'proxy_class': 'RaspberryPiPicoBackendProxy', 'sync_time': True, 'validate_time': False, 'local_rtc': True}"]
12:44:43.818 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: sys.executable: /Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/bin/python3.10
12:44:43.818 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: sys.argv: ['/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/thonny/plugins/rp2040/rp2040_back.py', "{'clean': False, 'port': '/dev/cu.usbmodem1101', 'dtr': None, 'rts': None, 'submit_mode': 'raw_paste', 'interrupt_on_connect': True, 'write_block_size': 64, 'write_block_delay': None, 'proxy_class': 'RaspberryPiPicoBackendProxy', 'sync_time': True, 'validate_time': False, 'local_rtc': True}"]
12:44:43.818 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: sys.path: ['/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/thonny/plugins/rp2040', '/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python310.zip', '/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10', '/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/lib-dynload', '/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages']
12:44:43.818 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: sys.flags: sys.flags(debug=0, inspect=0, interactive=0, optimize=0, dont_write_bytecode=1, no_user_site=1, no_site=0, ignore_environment=0, verbose=0, bytes_warning=0, quiet=0, hash_randomization=1, isolated=0, dev_mode=False, utf8_mode=0, warn_default_encoding=0, int_max_str_digits=-1)
12:44:43.818 [MainThread] INFO    thonny.plugins.micropython.bare_metal_backend: Starting backend, args: {'clean': False, 'port': '/dev/cu.usbmodem1101', 'dtr': None, 'rts': None, 'submit_mode': 'raw_paste', 'interrupt_on_connect': True, 'write_block_size': 64, 'write_block_delay': None, 'proxy_class': 'RaspberryPiPicoBackendProxy', 'sync_time': True, 'validate_time': False, 'local_rtc': True}
12:44:43.819 [MainThread] DEBUG   thonny.plugins.micropython.serial_connection: Opening serial port /dev/cu.usbmodem1101
12:44:48.461 [MainThread] INFO    thonny.plugins.micropython.bare_metal_backend: Initial submit_mode: raw_paste, write_block_size: 64, write_block_delay: 0, read_block_size: 0
12:44:48.462 [MainThread] INFO    thonny.plugins.micropython.mp_back: Initializing MicroPythonBackend of type RP2040Backend
12:44:48.464 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: TIME/MODS 4.666 before prepare (+73 modules)
12:44:48.464 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: NEW MODS ['__future__', '_bz2', '_compression', '_datetime', '_heapq', '_lzma', '_posixsubprocess', '_queue', '_struct', '_tkinter', 'array', 'binascii', 'bz2', 'datetime', 'encodings.ascii', 'errno', 'faulthandler', 'fcntl', 'fnmatch', 'gettext', 'heapq', 'lzma', 'math', 'ntpath', 'pathlib', 'platform', 'queue', 'select', 'selectors', 'serial', 'serial.serialposix', 'serial.serialutil', 'shlex', 'shutil', 'signal', 'struct', 'subprocess', 'termios', 'textwrap', 'thonny.backend', 'thonny.base_file_browser', 'thonny.codeview', 'thonny.config_ui', 'thonny.editors', 'thonny.languages', 'thonny.misc_utils', 'thonny.plugins', 'thonny.plugins.backend_config_page', 'thonny.plugins.micropython', 'thonny.plugins.micropython.bare_metal_backend', 'thonny.plugins.micropython.connection', 'thonny.plugins.micropython.mp_back', 'thonny.plugins.micropython.mp_common', 'thonny.plugins.micropython.mp_front', 'thonny.plugins.micropython.serial_connection', 'thonny.plugins.micropython.webrepl_connection', 'thonny.roughparse', 'thonny.running', 'thonny.tktextext', 'thonny.ui_utils', 'thonny.workdlg', 'tkinter', 'tkinter.commondialog', 'tkinter.constants', 'tkinter.dialog', 'tkinter.filedialog', 'tkinter.font', 'tkinter.messagebox', 'tkinter.simpledialog', 'tkinter.ttk', 'urllib', 'urllib.parse', 'zlib']
12:44:48.464 [MainThread] DEBUG   thonny.plugins.micropython.bare_metal_backend: _process_until_initial_prompt, clean=False
12:44:48.465 [MainThread] INFO    thonny.plugins.micropython.mp_back: Sending interrupt
12:44:48.465 [MainThread] DEBUG   thonny.plugins.micropython.mp_back: Sending ctrl chars: b'\x03'
12:44:48.465 [MainThread] ERROR   thonny.plugins.micropython.mp_back: Exception in MicroPython main method
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py", line 621, in write
    n = os.write(self.fd, d)
OSError: [Errno 6] Device not configured

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/thonny/plugins/micropython/mp_back.py", line 138, in __init__
    self._process_until_initial_prompt(
  File "/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/thonny/plugins/micropython/bare_metal_backend.py", line 278, in _process_until_initial_prompt
    self._process_output_until_active_prompt(
  File "/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/thonny/plugins/micropython/bare_metal_backend.py", line 864, in _process_output_until_active_prompt
    self._interrupt()
  File "/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/thonny/plugins/micropython/mp_back.py", line 339, in _interrupt
    self._write(INTERRUPT_CMD)
  File "/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/thonny/plugins/micropython/mp_back.py", line 461, in _write
    return self._connection.write(data)
  File "/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/thonny/plugins/micropython/serial_connection.py", line 88, in write
    size = self._serial.write(data)
  File "/Applications/Thonny.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py", line 655, in write
    raise SerialException('write failed: {}'.format(e))
serial.serialutil.SerialException: write failed: [Errno 6] Device not configured