Nordic #Devacademy intermediate course: Ticket for exercise 1 of lesson 3
Dear Colleagues,
I passed the test for lesson two, with only getting exercise 1 to work. Now I'm on to lesson three, which is about creating custom boards with NRF Connect. This looks really interesting. Step one of the exercise is to create a "my_boards" directory in the root directory, which I did.
Step 2.1 is to click on "Create a new board" in the NRF Connect welcome area, which should pop up a prompt to select the SDK to use. I get exactly no response at all. Nothing happens in the VS Code interface at all. In Step 2.2, you are supposed to select the SDK version. No prompt for this appears anywhere. Nothing happens at all. I can't get anywhere without this working. There are no clues presented about what is going wrong-- no error statements, absolutely unresponsive.
As usual, here is the output of View -> Command Palette -> nRF Connect: Generate Support Information:
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Again, I would appreciate any ideas on how to quickly resolve this. It would be great if all these features and functionality worked.
Best Regards,
sonic4
