Hi, I have a photon, I have been using for development , I have used serial monitor occasionally and I have been able to connect it to my dev PC. recently the device is being detected as a Serial Mouse when it is connected via USB, which causes the pointer to wreak havok on my display when it is co…

If only there was a search function on this forum... Oh, what a joy that'd be, people could actually do a search before asking questions... Long story short, check the topics below: [image] Issues using serial debugging (Mouse moving) Troubleshooting OS: Windows 7 x64 Se…

@whizpop , take a look here: [image] Issues using serial debugging (Mouse moving) Troubleshooting In terms of weird interactions / bugs, that’s pretty wild! slight_smile This name “Microsoft Serial Ballpoint” is magic, because searching for that shows a lot of people hav…

@Moors7 I did search the forum, and didnt find any acknowledgement or resolution in those partially matching posts. thanks for the ELITE reply.

thanks, the resolution on this just doesnt sound necessary.

@whizpop , it’s a Windows “thing”. :confused:

For anyone else facing this issue, I was doing a lot of Serial logging for debugging purposes at ~50 ms intervals. when this was enabled in the photon it was being detected as a serial device. disabling the Serial output allowed the device to be detected correctly. I would venture to say that this …

[image] whizpop: @Moors7 I did search the forum, and didnt find any acknowledgement or resolution in those partially matching posts. Well, speaking from experience, this isn't a new issue. If it were, I wouldn't be able to link you to posts that had dealt with this in the past. Seeing as two …

This started happening to me on firmware 0.5.2 on the Photon. Adding a 1000ms dealy in setup before calling Serial didn’t stop the mouse from going crazy but 1500ms did. Weird because this did not start hapenning until I loaded the 0.5.2 firmware. I’m on Windows 8.1 Pro FYI.

Photon detected as "Serial Mouse"

Troubleshooting

peekay123 February 8, 2016, 7:49pm 3

@whizpop, take a look here:

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Photon detected as "Serial Mouse"

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