qmk_toolbox: Error opening HID Manager

Describe the Bug

*** QMK Toolbox (http://qmk.fm/toolbox)
    Supporting following bootloaders:
     - DFU (Atmel, LUFA) via dfu-programmer (http://dfu-programmer.github.io/)
     - Caterina (Arduino, Pro Micro) via avrdude (http://nongnu.org/avrdude/)
     - Halfkay (Teensy, Ergodox EZ) via teensy_loader_cli (https://pjrc.com/teensy/loader_cli.html)
     - STM32 (ARM) via dfu-util (http://dfu-util.sourceforge.net/)
     - Kiibohd (ARM) via dfu-util (http://dfu-util.sourceforge.net/)
    And the following ISP flasher protocols:
     - USBTiny (AVR Pocket)
     - AVRISP (Arduino ISP)
*** Halfkay device connected
*** Attempting to flash, please don't remove device
>>> teensy_loader_cli -mmcu=atmega32u4 /Users/user1/Downloads/lfkeyboards_lfkpad_ayout_numpad_6x4_mine-2.hex -v
    Teensy Loader, Command Line, Version 2.1
    Read "/Users/user1/Downloads/lfkeyboards_lfkpad_ayout_numpad_6x4_mine-2.hex": 21460 bytes, 66.5% usage
    Error opening HID Manager
    Unable to open device

System Information

Operating system: macOS Mojave - 10.14.4
QMK Toolbox version: 0.0.9 (1)

Additional Context

All the dependencies were installed via brew and are on most recent version.
I originally installed via cask but got the error so I uninstalled via cask and manually downloaded the file but received the same error.

I looked up the error and saw something about ATOM but nothing with a clean solution or a something I would know how to implement.

About this issue

Original URL
State: open
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 16 (6 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@lbibass I listed the instructions above but in the sake of making it more clear:

Download this https://github.com/alswl/teensy_loader_cli and extract it somewhere (or just clone it)

I don’t think there has been a PR on from this repo but I haven’t used the most recent version of QMK Toolbox.

In terminal CD to the extracted folder and ‘make’ (this will take a min or two).

Take the teensy_loader_cli that was just compiled and use it to replace the one in the “qmk toolbox.app” that you installed earlier. Navigate to “qmk toolbox.app” and right click - show contents(in case you didn’t know how to do that bit).

again I haven’t used the latest version of QMK Toolbox but this is how I worked around it 5 months ago

a7hybnj2 on Sep 9, 2019

Well, this is entirely new to me! They must have updated the app since I last tried to use it. Thanks for letting me know it works!

lbibass on Nov 10, 2019

Seems to launch fine for me, though I don’t have a Teensy to test if it actually flashes.

fauxpark on Nov 10, 2019

Any update on this? We’re at 0.0.13 now, so hopefully this has been resolved.

drashna on Oct 1, 2019