Resolving Port Missing on Arduino IDE when connecting Node MCU

This blog is to show how to resolve the missing Port when you plug in NodeMCU to the Arduino IDE.

I noticed that the Port( /dev/cu.SLAB)  was not there when I started the Arduino IDE and connected the NodeMCU.

Typically- you would expect to see a port for communication from Arduino IDE to the NodeMCU


But in my Mac 10.10.5 Yosemite -I had to follow the below steps to get this fixed.
Below are the details.



To solve this.

Installed the CP2102 driver, and follow instructions listed in this blog.

https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-devkit-v1.0/issues/2



On my mac - I did not find this folder, so I installed the driver by double clicking on the left navigation panel listing the mounted package when I downloaded the






After this - I had to restart my Mac Laptop - and started Arduino IDE.
With this I was able to see the port on the ide. This resolves the communication issue from my Mac to the NodeMCU device.