PCA10059 peripheral_uart COM port not showing under Windows

[theeren]

I am testing the PCA10059 nrf52840 dongle and I am trying to get the peripherial_uart sample code to work.

Programming is successful and the dongle is showing up on my phone using nordic connect.

My problem is that the dongle is not showing as a COM device in Windows10 when plugged in.

The dongle shows up when using the original bootloader. 

I am really not sure where to start looking.

Tammo

[Turbo J]

theeren said:

the dongle is not showing as a COM device

Why should it? The uart example code does not use USB at all. On the DK it uses the COM port in the debugger chip - which is not present on the dongle. You can still 'scope the signals on the corresponding dongle pins (or pads).

And yes, you need to properly initialize (and handle) USB in your source code if you wanted the stick to be usable. There is an USB CDC example.

[theeren]

Thank you for the insight.