ESP32 board isn't discovered by the Mac or the Arduino IDE

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The ESP32 board has a Silabs CP2102, so I downloaded silabs driver and it

installed partially, then paused with some sort of message about security,

then finished installing. By the time I opened the preferences and tried to

see what the hold up was, the driver finished installing itself.

This is on a MacBook Pro with 10.13.6.

The board doesn’t show up on the Arduino IDE port drop down or

on the terminal ls /dev/{tty,cu}.* method.

So… any suggestions? I guess the driver isn’t installing or working.

Is there another driver? or another way to install it?

Thanks.

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What SparkFun board are you using?

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OK after a bit of digging and some help from TS-Mark, it’s probably the [Thing Plus you’re using.

My guess is that the driver didn’t install correctly and you might need to try again, or that you may need a reboot for the driver to fully install. Give that a try and let us know if you’re still having troubles.](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14689)

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TS-Chris:
My guess is that the driver didn’t install correctly and you might need to try again, or that you may need a reboot for the driver to fully install. Give that a try and let us know if you’re still having troubles.

Your guess is good, and correct! First, thanks very much.

So, this is OS X 10.13.6 and the current Silabs driver. It turns out that the Mac blocks the installation of the driver,

and doesn’t seem to put up the normal dialog notification, for some reason. If you choose “allow apps” from the App Store and

identified developers, the driver installs OK. So, I got the driver installed. But this board doesn’t behave like anything I’ve encountered.

If you do nothing the installation looks like it has completed, but it isn’t really there.

It is an ESP32 dev board, from eBay(china), and it places a bunch of options in the tools menu, for baud, Mhz frequency,

and many others. It’s a little bit beyond me right now. I was trying to get the correct hardware for a tutorial I’m following

along with, which uses a ESP32 Doit Dev board. It seems to be a generic ESP32 dev board. The sketch complies and loads

OK, but doesn’t behave correctly. I think it’s operating faster than the hardware used in the tutorial.

This is a BLE notification example.