I have a new Seeduino V4.2 connected to Windows (10) PC for the first time. There is an issue with installation of USB device driver.
Symptoms.
I find that connection of the device via Micro USB is recognised as “USB Serial Device (Com5)”. When this occurs, I see the Green Power LED turn ON, the Blue USB connection flashes ON/OFF, the Red Tx LED flashes.
I download the device driver as specified in the Wiki and attempt to install, going through all the steps listed. The last step is where windows is supposed to install the driver without complaint. However what it does is to pop up an Install Error dialog that says: “The 3rd Party INF does not contain digital signature information.”
I checked for this issue and the only relevant topic gave advice that maybe my USB cable was power charging only, not data transfer.
I went through my pile of old Micro USB cables trying each one. I found one that was not recognised at all, several others were recognised, causing USB port to be recognised as the generic USB Serial Device, with LEDS etc flashing on the Seeduino device.
So, I tried compiling and uploading the “Blink” sketch using one of the working cables. I found that this process worked OK, and I was able to vary the blink rate etc to verify all was working as expected.
The obvious thing is that this is apparently working, but not as documented.
Do I have cause for concern ?