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Cannot use COM port/Web Serial serial based plotter at the same time as the editor

Open microbit-matt-hillsdon opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments
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If you try to use a WebUSB serial plotter at the same time as the editor then they fight over the serial data:

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https://sekigon-gonnoc.github.io/web-serial-plotter/

We do disconnect the editor when you change tab, but that itself is something of a workaround, see #853, #89.

microbit-matt-hillsdon avatar Oct 10 '22 09:10 microbit-matt-hillsdon

We'd probably need some way to explicitly disable serial in the editor.

microbit-matt-hillsdon avatar Oct 10 '22 09:10 microbit-matt-hillsdon