Frustrated at the staring post

[gerrysweeney]

Today, I tried installing CubeIDE so I could get a sample project up and running to evaluate against a Nucleo 144 board.  This is my second attempt, and both times I get this error.  Nothing in the manual, cannot find nothing on Google either.  

The IDE is *so* heavy, my mac struggles like notihng I have seen before, closing a window (like the product selector) takes more than 10 seconds where you are locked waiting for it.  Not to be deterred I am hoping the experience gets better... although based on past work I will probably end up trying Platform.io which seems far better than the Eclipse based IDEs'

Anyway, frustrations aside, any idea what this error means and how I get past it?

Thanks in advance..
Gerry

[STTwo-32 · Accepted solution]

Hello @gerrysweeney and welcome to the ST Community :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:.

This message means that you should login to STM32CUBEIDE to be able to download the software packages that you are going to use on your project.

Best Regards.

STTwo-32 

[Tesla DeLorean]

It means you're not logged into the ST support site. Need to log in using the credentials you used to log in here to the forum.

Should be a "MyST" icon in the mid-right tool bar, top of screen. Should bring up browser for you to log in.

[gerrysweeney]

Ok don't worrk, I eventually found the My ST menu and logged in, that got me past that problem, now I seem to need to find some more tutorials, the ones I found so far show one thing which does not seem to work when I do it. 

Sigh.... no wonder arduino had such good takeup..! The barrier to entry with STM32's/ARM is so very high

[gerrysweeney]

Thank you, I managed to find that, but appreciate the response.  I seem to be having a real battle though, solved that problem and immediately run into the next.  I don't want to bother the community though with a load of dumb noob questions... would be lovely if the CubeMX/Nucleo boards just worked, but I tell you, its not obvious :(

[gerrysweeney]

Thank you for your reply, appreciate that. Sorry for the noob question

Gerry

[gerrysweeney]

Ok so finally after installing the ST-Link Server I managed to program a blinky test program on the green LED of my board and get it programmed and blinking.