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MSP430fr5969 'out of box demo' WebGUI fails to find ComPort in Win8

Dr. C. L. Fullmer
Intellectual 435 points
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Running Windoze 8

Using the example 'out of box demo' gui and loading index.html into the browser (Firefox, latest version), the Browser GUI does not find the com port for the device..  It is there in the device manager, but does not appear in teh drop down of the gui..


I am able to load files to target device, and CCS is happy otherwise.. just the web gui is problematic.

thx for any help here..
 -- chane

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    TI__Genius 9210 points

    Hi Chane,

    The GUI's index.html is actually not intended to be run by itself in your own browser. Did you try running the "OutOfBox_FR5969_GUI" shortcut inside the slac645c\MSP-EXP430FR5969 Software Examples\GUI folder?

    The GUI is written as a node-webkit application and requires the node-webkit runtime that's based on Chromium and node.js to execute properly.

    The "OutOfBox_FR5969" shortcut calls slac645c\MSP-EXP430FR5969 Software Examples\Binary\OutOfBox_FR5969_GUI\nw.exe, which is a package including the node-webkit runtime and the HTML/JavaScript GUI source codes.

    Please refer to https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit for more information regarding how the GUI is made.

    Best Regards,
    Eric C.

  • 0 in reply to Eric Chen
    Intellectual 435 points

    Thanks.. I was running from the index.html, which failed, as you suggested...

    I then tried running from the /GUI folder, and all is well now.. as expected...


    Again, great response time, and thanks...

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