Notification doesn't appear in Chrome but board connects automatically #69

armsp · 2019-09-03T15:38:44Z

I have a strange issue. Everything is working fine. The board connects, the data transfer happens, the demos work but I never get a notification from Chrome.
I have to manually goto the website and when I do I see my device automatically Connected.

What is even more mind boggling is that when I run WebUSB examples from Adafruit_TinyUSB Library then I do get the notifications.
Any clue why it behaves this way?

I am testing it on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS with Chrome 76.0.3809.100

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armsp · 2019-09-03T15:45:19Z

Ok, so I used chrome://usb-internals to inspect my device. And in the USB Version it shows 2.0.0.
But I have already made this change #define USB_VERSION 0x210
Is it possible that for custom SAMD21 boards, the USBCore.h files used are in a location other than hardware/arduino/avr/cores/arduino/USBCore.h ?

My arduino device is Adafruit Feather M0 Express
I think @ladyada might be able to shed some light here.

ladyada · 2019-09-03T15:49:32Z

if it works in tinyusb, then that's the extent of what adafruit can support with. we dont have any insight into chrome

armsp · 2019-09-03T15:58:56Z

@reillyeon I think the issue is deeper than I thought. Some disparities from chrome://usb-internals -

Arduino WebUSB	Adafruit WebUSB
USB Version: 2.0.0	USB Version: 32.1.0
WebUSB Landing Page:	WebUSB Landing Page: <adafruit's demo page>

@ladyada Was it intentional to keep USB Version as 32.1.0 ?

reillyeon · 2019-09-03T17:18:07Z

Chrome will only query the device for a landing page if it reports USB 2.1 or greater as that is the version at which the Binary device Object Store descriptor was added to the specification.

armsp · 2019-09-03T17:35:28Z

@reillyeon Yeah, but I am not able to understand why the changes in the USBCore.h file isn't making it work. Any hints on that ?
Because the same hardware shows notification when used with Adafruit's library but not with yours despite the changes to USBCore.h

jpliew · 2019-09-04T00:44:10Z

@armsp it is best for custom mycustomboard, the configuration is done at the "boards.txt" file for that board by creating a new board definition.

For example

mycustomboard.build.extra_flags={build.usb_flags} "-DUSB_VERSION=0x210"

This flag will be passed to compiler and be used everywhere when a USB_VERSION is required. When uploading sketch, user just need to select the correct mycustomboard

Therefore, in order to use Adafruit Feather M0 Express , I would encourage @ladyada and Adafruit team to add a new board definition for this board and reduce customer frustration editing the USBCore.h which I think should not be touch because hardcode USB_VERSION in USBCore.h will cause other boards failed to operate.

This issue has been reported here #32

ladyada · 2019-09-04T01:35:20Z

does the arduino SAMD definition have it fixed?

armsp · 2019-09-04T02:30:41Z

@jpliew I understand. So I thought I'd follow what you say. But the issue is that I can't seem to find any core folders for samd21 or any other architecture. I have installed Arduino Samd Boards from the board manager and Adafruit's boards too but where do they reside locally? Inside hardware -> arduino the only option I have is avr.
Any idea where exactly I would find the boards.txt files for SAMD21 boards, doesn't matter whether they are from Arduino or Adafruit ?

jpliew · 2019-09-04T03:06:50Z

@armsp I don't have Adafruit board to test, but I managed to do a dry run and the steps are below.

Follow Adafruit's instruction to add board manager url to Arduino IDE
https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
Then, Tools, Board Manager, search for Adafruit and install Adafruit SAMD version 1.5.3
After install, if you are using Windows, the files will be located at

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\adafruit\hardware\samd\1.5.3

If you are on Linux, Arduino IDE, File, Preference, check the bottom part, you should see something like Arduino15 , this is were the boards files are installed.

If still can't find it, on Linux just do a find command to search for boards.txt

Adafruit Feather M0 Express should have the following details

# Adafruit Feather M0 Express (SAMD21)
# ------------------------------
adafruit_feather_m0_express.name=Adafruit Feather M0 Express
adafruit_feather_m0_express.vid.0=0x239A
adafruit_feather_m0_express.pid.0=0x801B
adafruit_feather_m0_express.vid.1=0x239A
adafruit_feather_m0_express.pid.1=0x001B
adafruit_feather_m0_express.upload.tool=bossac
adafruit_feather_m0_express.upload.protocol=sam-ba
adafruit_feather_m0_express.upload.maximum_size=262144
adafruit_feather_m0_express.upload.offset=0x2000
adafruit_feather_m0_express.upload.use_1200bps_touch=true
adafruit_feather_m0_express.upload.wait_for_upload_port=true
adafruit_feather_m0_express.upload.native_usb=true
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.mcu=cortex-m0plus
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.f_cpu=48000000L
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.usb_product="Feather M0 Express"
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.usb_manufacturer="Adafruit"
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.board=SAMD_FEATHER_M0_EXPRESS
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.core=arduino
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.extra_flags=-DARDUINO_SAMD_ZERO -DARDUINO_SAMD_FEATHER_M0 -DARM_MATH_CM0PLUS -DADAFRUIT_FEATHER_M0_EXPRESS -D__SAMD21G18A__ {build.usb_flags}
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.ldscript=linker_scripts/gcc/flash_with_bootloader.ld
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.openocdscript=openocd_scripts/feather_m0_express.cfg
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.variant=feather_m0_express
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.variant_system_lib=
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.vid=0x239A
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.pid=0x801B
adafruit_feather_m0_express.bootloader.tool=openocd
adafruit_feather_m0_express.bootloader.file=featherM0/bootloader-feather_m0-v2.0.0-adafruit.5.bin
adafruit_feather_m0_express.menu.usbstack.arduino=Arduino
adafruit_feather_m0_express.menu.usbstack.tinyusb=TinyUSB
adafruit_feather_m0_express.menu.usbstack.tinyusb.build.flags.usbstack=-DUSE_TINYUSB
adafruit_feather_m0_express.menu.debug.off=Off
adafruit_feather_m0_express.menu.debug.on=On
adafruit_feather_m0_express.menu.debug.on.build.flags.debug=-g

I suggest you duplicate these details and create a board call

Adafruit Feather M0 Express WebUSB

replacing

adafruit_feather_m0_express

with

adafruit_feather_m0_express_webusb

and product name to add WebUSB text there to differentiate the board.

then add the USB_VERSION at

adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.extra_flags=-DARDUINO_SAMD_ZERO -DARDUINO_SAMD_FEATHER_M0 -DARM_MATH_CM0PLUS -DADAFRUIT_FEATHER_M0_EXPRESS -D__SAMD21G18A__ {build.usb_flags} "-DUSB_VERSION=0x210"

Once done, restart Arduino IDE, and you can see your new board showing on Tools, Boards.

Ideally it is preferred to work with @ladyada to add this so that it will be consistent with their product support policy and reduce confusion.

Once this is done, you will have a normal

Adafruit Feather M0 Express
work with current Adafruit tutorials and examples.

and Adafruit Feather M0 Express WebUSB
work with official WebUSB library examples.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
JP

jpliew · 2019-09-04T03:29:06Z

@armsp depending on Adafruit's decision, they might prefer to use their current method

adafruit_feather_m0_express.menu.usbstack.webusb=xxxx

no matter which method, still, working together with Adafruit to achieve this is the best, that way Adafruit can provide greater support for customers like you.

armsp · 2019-09-04T03:37:54Z

@jpliew thanks a lot for such a detailed explanation and steps. I tried with the following changes but it still does NOT give notification with Arduino Webusb on Chrome. I chose NOT to create a custom board. I edited the original Adafruit Feather M0 Express board itself.

adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.extra_flags=-DARDUINO_SAMD_ZERO -DARDUINO_SAMD_FEATHER_M0 -DARM_MATH_CM0PLUS -DADAFRUIT_FEATHER_M0_EXPRESS -D__SAMD21G18A__ {build.usb_flags} -DUSB_VERSION=0x210
adafruit_feather_m0_express.build.extra_flags=-DARDUINO_SAMD_ZERO -DARDUINO_SAMD_FEATHER_M0 -DARM_MATH_CM0PLUS -DADAFRUIT_FEATHER_M0_EXPRESS -D__SAMD21G18A__ {build.usb_flags} "-DUSB_VERSION=0x210"

ladyada · 2019-09-04T04:02:47Z

sounds resolved! thaks everyone :)

armsp · 2019-09-04T04:11:39Z

@ladyada not really. I really appreciate your time and effort and I understand that you'd want us to use Adafruit TinyUSB Library, but fundamentally it's just a SAMD21, so it should work with Arduino Webusb too, which it does....except the usb version issue that prevents chrome from generating a notification.

jpliew · 2019-09-04T04:12:22Z

@ladyada not resolved yet.

Further checking, Adafruit's SAMD might not be using the original Arduino USBCore.h therefore adding USB_VERSION in the boards.txt will not work.

@armsp since Adafruit's board is working with TinyUSB, is there any specific reason you want this board to work with the original WebUSB library?

If you still want to make this work, for learning purposes, you can try hack the Arduino SAMD boards, by downloading from Board Manager. Then try again with my method.

ladyada · 2019-09-04T04:19:00Z

for adafruit boards use tinyusb - it works really well :)

ladyada · 2019-09-04T04:20:20Z

if you find a solution let us know, a PR will be accepted for sure!

jpliew · 2019-09-04T04:45:59Z

@armsp the original Arduino SAMD USBCore.h file is at

Arduino15\packages\arduino\hardware\samd\1.8.3\cores\arduino\USB

The USB version is hardcoded to 0x200, you can try change this

#define D_DEVICE(_class,_subClass,_proto,_packetSize0,_vid,_pid,_version,_im,_ip,_is,_configs) \ { 18, 1, 0x200, _class,_subClass,_proto,_packetSize0,_vid,_pid,_version,_im,_ip,_is,_configs }

to

#define D_DEVICE(_class,_subClass,_proto,_packetSize0,_vid,_pid,_version,_im,_ip,_is,_configs) \ { 18, 1, 0x210, _class,_subClass,_proto,_packetSize0,_vid,_pid,_version,_im,_ip,_is,_configs }

When uploading sketch, please REMEMBER to select Arduino SAMD M0 type of board, NOT Adafruit board.

armsp · 2019-09-04T05:19:50Z

@jpliew I took a slightly different approach than yours - instead of messing around with Arduino's SAMD core I thought since I will choose Adafruit Feather M0 Express anyway from the Board Manager i decided to change the usb files inside adafruit's samd core. Thats located at .arduino15\packages\adafruit\hardware\samd\1.5.3\cores\arduino\usb . Inside the USBCore.h file I made exactly the same change as you suggest before you replied.

When uploading sketch, please REMEMBER to select Arduino SAMD M0 type of board, NOT Adafruit board.

As I said I want to avoid that. Moreover choosing any Arduino Samd based from board manager before uploading isn't the right approach and it fails anyways except ArduinoMRKZERO.

But I have had mixed success

Now in my chrome://usb-internals I can see that it detects it as a USB Version: 2.1.0 device HOWEVER the notification still **DID NOT ** come.
What is crazier is that when I use the TinyUSB USB Stack with Adafruit_TinyUSB Webusb example, the notification appears immediately BUT the USB Version has remained 32.1.0

@reillyeon I wonder if there is a bug in arduino webusb cause no matter what happens, the WebUSB Landing Page: field in chrome://usb-internals remains empty despite showing USB Version: 2.1.0, perhaps that is the cause behind not seeing any notifications. Why ? Because I passed an empty string to the landing_page_url parameter while using Adafruit_TinyUSB webusb example and it DID NOT show a notification. Putting back the url immediately showed the notification.

jpliew · 2019-09-04T10:34:18Z

As I said I want to avoid that. Moreover choosing any Arduino Samd based from board manager before uploading isn't the right approach and it fails anyways except ArduinoMRKZERO.

@armsp why is it not the right approach? When did you say you wanted to avoid that? What fail? upload fail? compile fail? Screenshot?

If you suspect url problem, you can check using

chrome://usb-internals/

Click Devices, then click Inspect. You can see the URL from this screen, please paste your screen shot here.

I can ensure you that this current version of WebUSB is solid and I have many production devices running.

armsp · 2019-09-04T12:03:20Z

@jpliew I didn't mean to offend.
What I meant was that since Adafruit has already taken the pain to make their core and boards it only makes sense to use them as the board pinouts would match incase I want to do something complex later on. And anyways we found where the Adafruit samd core is and the USBCore.h file over there.

If you suspect url problem, you can check using
chrome://usb-internals/

I have been giving these information already using chrome://usb-internals

Screenshot of chrome://usb-internals when I load arduino webusb example sketch (after USBCore.h edit it does show the version as 2.1.0 but NO notification) -

Screenshot of chrome://usb-internals when I load Adafruit TinyUSB webusb example sketch and when the notification appears -

ERRORS when choosing wrong boards

Arduino M0

Arduino MKRZERO

Uploads but no notification.
USB Version comes as 2.0.0 cause I chose not to change my arduino samd core USBCore.h file. chrome://usb-internals screenshot

Arduino M0 Pro - Native port

Same error as M0

Arduino M0 Pro -> Programming Port (as expected)

Arduino: 1.8.9 (Linux), Board: "Arduino M0 Pro (Programming Port)"

Build options changed, rebuilding all
Sketch uses 13176 bytes (5%) of program storage space. Maximum is 262144 bytes.
An error occurred while uploading the sketch
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.10.0+dev-gf0767a31 (2018-06-11-13:40)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
	http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
debug_level: 0
none separate
adapter speed: 400 kHz
cortex_m reset_config sysresetreq
Error: unable to find CMSIS-DAP device
Error: No Valid JTAG Interface Configured.
Error: No Valid JTAG Interface Configured.

Arduino Zero -> Native port

Arduino: 1.8.9 (Linux), Board: "Arduino/Genuino Zero (Native USB Port)"

Build options changed, rebuilding all
Sketch uses 13128 bytes (5%) of program storage space. Maximum is 262144 bytes.
No device found on ttyACM0
An error occurred while uploading the sketch

Arduino Zero -> Programming port

Arduino: 1.8.9 (Linux), Board: "Arduino/Genuino Zero (Programming Port)"

Build options changed, rebuilding all
Sketch uses 13128 bytes (5%) of program storage space. Maximum is 262144 bytes.
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.10.0+dev-gf0767a31 (2018-06-11-13:40)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
	http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
debug_level: 0
none separate
adapter speed: 400 kHz
cortex_m reset_config sysresetreq
Error: unable to find CMSIS-DAP device
Error: No Valid JTAG Interface Configured.
Error: No Valid JTAG Interface Configured.

reillyeon · 2019-09-04T17:20:58Z

When you are on the USB internals page for the device click the "Get WebUSB & Microsoft OS 2.0 Descriptors" button. That page as a JavaScript version of the same logic Chrome internally uses to try to read the descriptor and should give you better errors/diagnostic information.

armsp · 2019-09-04T17:28:16Z

@reillyeon I get the following for arduino webusb -

Offset is outside the bounds of the DataView
Descriptor is too long.

For Adafruit TinyUSB webusb i get -

I am afraid I don't really know what to make of this information.

jpliew · 2019-09-04T21:38:12Z

@armsp when you use Adafruit Feather M0 Express board with an edited USBCore.h

the WebUSB Landing Page is empty. This means, Adafruit's USB must have something that is causing this.

The reason why I asked you to try with Arduino boards is because we need to understand if there are any differences between Arduino and Adafruit's USB stack, from a quick look at their source files, I can see they are different. Instead of finding out the differences, one quickest way is to test with Arduino boards by changing Arduino's USBCore.h and use Arduino boards, in you case Arduino MKRZERO is working and I suggest to test with this Arduino MKRZERO board first.

Once you have edited the USBCore.h for Arduino MKRZERO then check with chrome's debug, check if USB version and WebUSB landing page is there.

This is just a simple comparison debugging technique, once you get one board working, it will be more easier and confident for you to tackle Adafruit's board files.

armsp · 2019-09-05T01:59:28Z

@jpliew I agree.
So when I try with Arduino MKRZERO with the changes in USBCore.h, I don't see any notification AND the bad news is that it is not even enumerated in chrome://usb-internals

When I try just with Arduino MKRZERO WITHOUT any changes to USBCore.h then it is enumerated in chrome://usb-internals. It pairs too but when I actually try to connect and run the console example I get this error -

Connecting to Arduino MKRZero...
Connection error: SecurityError: Access denied.

The Get WebUSB & Microsoft OS 2.0 Descriptors button shows this -
Failed to read the device BOS descriptor to determine the total descriptor length. (Reason: Transfer Error)

And the rest of the details are as follows (still NO landing page) -

jpliew · 2019-09-05T02:18:17Z

@armsp there are two USBCore.h in Arduino. One in

arduino/avr/cores/arduino/USBCore.h

and the other one in

Arduino15\packages\arduino\hardware\samd\1.8.3\cores\arduino\USB

Have you try editing both files?

I don't have Feather M0 Express with me, once I get one I will test this out for you.

armsp · 2019-09-05T02:54:41Z

@jpliew
The USBCore.h at ~/arduino-1.8.9/hardware/arduino/avr/cores/arduino has been changed permanently and as thats what the README said. I don't revert it back at all.

The experiments I have been running are with the following files -

Arduino's samd core : ~/.arduino15/packages/arduino/hardware/samd/1.8.3/cores/arduino/USB
Adafruit's samd core : ~/arduino15/packages/adafruit/hardware/samd/1.5.3/cores/arduino/USB

I just wanted to collate all the experiments that I have done so far. Apparently things are not what they seem.

When Adafruit Feather M0 is selected as Board, then I make changes to USBCore.h in Adafruit's samd core location as my understanding is that while compiling that will be used

Board	Library	`USBCore.h` version	USB Version	Landing Page shows?	Notification	Does it work
Adafruit Feather M0 Express	Adafruit Tiny USB - webusb	0x200	32.1.0	Yes	Yes	Yes
Adafruit Feather M0 Express	Adafruit Tiny USB - webusb	0x210	32.1.0	Yes	Yes	Yes
Adafruit Feather M0 Express	arduino webusb	0x200	2.0.0	No	No	Yes
Adafruit Feather M0 Express	arduino webusb	0x210	2.1.0	No	No	Yes

When Arduino MKRZERO is selected as Board, then I make changes to USBCore.h in Arduino's samd core location as my understanding is that while compiling that will be used

Board	Library	`USBCore.h` version	USB Version	Landing Page shows?	Notification	Does it work
Arduino MKRZERO	webusb	0x210	NA	NA	No	NA
Arduino MKRZERO	webusb	0x200	2.0.0	No	No	No

Takeaways

Arduino's USBCore.h location : ~/.arduino15/packages/arduino/hardware/samd/1.8.3/cores/arduino/USB
Adafruit's USBCore.h location : ~/arduino15/packages/adafruit/hardware/samd/1.5.3/cores/arduino/USB

Changes to the USBCore.h USB version don't actually affect the USB Version for Adafruit TinyUSB library and moreover it stays at 32.1.0 . This means there is some other file/value that takes precedence. Or we are missing the bigger picture here.

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ERRORS when choosing wrong boards

Arduino M0

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Arduino M0 Pro -> Programming Port (as expected)

Arduino Zero -> Native port

Arduino Zero -> Programming port

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