Upload fails specifically every second time - Teensy 4.1

1

I’ve done a lot for years with Teensy 3.2 and Teensy 4.0. I recently started playing with Teensy 4.1, and I get a strange behaviour on upload. As the title suggests, it fails specifically every second time. When it fails, it looks like this:

Building in release mode
Linking .pio/build/teensy41/firmware.elf
Checking size .pio/build/teensy41/firmware.elf
Building .pio/build/teensy41/firmware.hex
Configuring upload protocol...
AVAILABLE: jlink, teensy-cli, teensy-gui
CURRENT: upload_protocol = teensy-cli
Rebooting...
Uploading .pio/build/teensy41/firmware.hex
Teensy Loader, Command Line, Version 2.2
Read ".pio/build/teensy41/firmware.hex": 333820 bytes, 16.4% usage
Error opening USB device: Operation timed out
Waiting for Teensy device...
(hint: press the reset button)
Found HalfKay Bootloader
Read ".pio/build/teensy41/firmware.hex": 333820 bytes, 16.4% usage
error writing to Teensy
*** [upload] Error 1
Programming...========================== [FAILED] Took 4.35 seconds ==========================

If I switch to the teensy-gui uploader, it uploads every time, but the serial monitor doesn’t resume:
Error: [Errno 2] could not open port /dev/cu.usbmodem117574901: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/dev/cu.usbmodem117574901’

But I just press up and enter and it’s fine. It seems in either case it could be a timeout waiting for the socket to become available.

Thoughts?

2

And this happens with the most basic blinky example code too?

Teensy platform is updated to the latest version? CLI → pio pkg update -g -p teensy

3

Everything is up to date. I made a blink sketch, that worked fine every time. Then I added NativeEthernet, still worked every time… then I added NativeEthernetUdp - that did it. Failed every other time, same as before. Here’s my code if you want to try and replicate it (obviously must be on a Teensy 4.1 with ethernet):

#include <Arduino.h>
#include <NativeEthernet.h>
#include <NativeEthernetUdp.h>

EthernetUDP udp;

uint8_t mac[] = { 0x90, 0xA2, 0xDA, 0x0E, 0xC2, 0xAA };
IPAddress ip(192,168,30,27);

uint32_t timerObject;
bool flipFlop;

void setup() {
pinMode(13,OUTPUT);

Ethernet.begin(mac,ip);
udp.begin(1000);

} // END SETUP

void loop() {

if (timerObject<millis()) {
timerObject = millis() + 1000;
flipFlop = !flipFlop;
digitalWrite(13,flipFlop);
}

} // END LOOP

4

Bump. Any thoughts folks?

5

Does this happen in the Arduino IDE too?

6

I had to update the Arduino IDE as it’s been a good five years since I’ve used it, but then it appears to just use Teensy Loader anyway. Uploads every time.

I just tried a clean Atom & PlatformIO install on a spare Mac Mini, running the latest macOS. Exactly the same problem presents.

7

Hi There,

I’m getting exactly the same thing here, did you find a solution?

Cheers

Andy

8

Negative.

And it’s not just NativeEthernetUdp. It’s also happening on projects without that library.

I’m not sure who manages the Teensy framework on platformio - perhaps we should be rattling cages over at forum.pjrc.com ?

Such an odd problem though.

9

So it’s been a year… new MacBook Pro, now using PlatformIO on VScode instead of Atom. Same issue persists if I use teensy-cli.

The only improvement is if I use teensy-gui the serial monitor does automatically reconnect afterward.

Any thoughts?

10

Did you track this issue in https://github.com/platformio/platform-teensy/issues/? That’s where the developers ar at.

11

The same exact thing happened to me while testing and uploading. I resolved this by using a different upload protocol.

; in platformio.ini
upload_protocol = teensy-gui