Enhance COM ports lists about lego-spikeprime-mindstorms-vscode HOT 6 OPEN

@MrGibbage, not sure what do you mean to limit COM ports only to the outgoing. For me It shows just the COM ports on the computer. Also I do not think there is any designation for incoming/outgoing ports. At least the plugin communicates both in and out packets on a single COM port.

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On our WIndows 10 computers, once I have connected a hub to a computer over bluetooth using the Spike app, if you go into the windows settings, "More Bluetooth Options", you can see the COM ports for each hub. Each hub will have two ports associated with it: an incoming port and an outgoing port. It's the outgoing port that we need in VS code to upload our code. But, when I am in VS code and I click on "Disconnected", we are presented with a list of all COM ports available, including the incoming ports, which can never be used to connect a hub. My suggestion is to not show the incoming ports at all if they cannot be used.

I'll post some screen shots later today.

And thanks @PeterStaev !!!

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Really strange, I'm also using Win10 and I never have seen 2 COM ports for a single hub.

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I have seen this on ten different laptops

In VS Code we know to always use the outgoing port to connect and upload our programs.

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I have the same issue. When using the extension, I get multiple ports presented where I have no idea which one is the right to choose. I just go through the list until one worked:

Thanks to the previous post I also looked into the settings and found incoming and outcoming ports:

Would it maybe be possible to show the names and incoming / outcoming just like Windows does in this popup? This would eliminate the guessing and allows you to directly choose the right port.

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Sadly, currently I do not see a way to pull the direction of the port nor the name associated.

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