HOW TO: Windows 8 Mission Planner / Arduino Drivers

Made the upgrade to Window 8 Pro this weekend.  All things considered I have noticed a good speed increase over Windows 7.  No major issues except when I plugged my quad into the USB port Mission Planner couldn't find it. So....

After a bit of digging I found this post: http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,94651.msg716650.html

in which I found a solution that I thought would be helpful to post here for others.

I'm running Mission Planner 1.2.14

  1. Download the 3 files below
  2. Double-click on the .cert file
  3. Click "Install Certificate"
  4. Select "Local Machine"
  5. Next
  6. Select "Place all certificates in the following store" radio button
  7. Click "Browse"
  8. Select "Trusted Root Certificate Authorities"
  9. Click OK
  10. Finish etc...
  11. Repeat  the process, starting at step 2, replace step 8 with "Trusted Publishers"
  12. Once you've added the .cert to both folders, right click on the arduino.inf file and choose "Install"
  13. Open Mission Planner
  14. Connect.

This worked for me first try.  Thanks to Louis @ Arduino for the great instructions, just thought I could save some folks a bit of time by relaying my direct experience with Mission Planner.

Cheers!

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Permalink Reply by Crashpilot1000 on October 30, 2012 at 2:03pm

Thank you very much for the solution! Didn't even know win8 was out already. I don't feel like upgrading from win7_64 everything works so good. Perhaps the nonworking missionplanner on win8 was a feature not an incompatibility :) .

So long

Rob

Permalink Reply by Simon Howroyd on October 30, 2012 at 3:39pm

How do you find Win8?  Looks a bit tablety and mobile phoney, rather than desktop PC?

Permalink Reply by Andy Theimer on October 31, 2012 at 12:39pm

Almost no effect on my day-to-day and I run a software company so lots of Office usage, Netbeans, local dev webserver and no issues.  I just ignore the new homescreen for now it's not really an issue.  It probably helps if you're used to launching apps by hitting the Windows Key, typing and hitting enter (similar to Mac Spotlight).  Everything loads and runs faster compared to Windows 7 in my opinion.

Permalink Reply by Garret on November 3, 2012 at 3:04pm

Hi Andy. I followed your instructions and got Arduino working on my Win8 computer. Thanks for posting that info. However, I consistently receive an error when trying to install the Mission Planner. I made sure that I have the .NET 3.5 framework and DirectX as mentioned in the install directions but that didn't fix the problem.

Did you run into similar issues when you put Mission Planner on your Win8 computer? If so, is there a quick fix to the issue? Thanks for your time and consideration.

Garret

Permalink Reply by Andrew on November 6, 2012 at 4:46pm

I'm also having similar issues, any help would really be appreciated. I've started a thread here with hopes that someone may have figured it out already.

Thanks in advance everyone,

 

Andrew

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