How to attach a USB device to WSL2

Use case: You want to test the autonomy code on your own laptop instead of SSH'ing into the Pi5

Install usbipd

Install usbipd for windows with winget install usbipd - This will allow your docker container to read the data coming from the microcontroller

Method 1: VSCode Extension

1. Add this extension to VSCode
2. Outside of the devcontainer, click attach and select the COM device you want to use

Method 2: Commandline

1. Run usbipd list. This will display all USB devices on your computer.
2. Run usbipd bind --busid=<BUSID> # Example: usbipd bind --busid=1-2
3. Run usbipd attach --wsl --busid=<BUSID>

• You may need to run dos2unix * to convert Windows files to Linux newline separators

Notes

• You'll need to rebuild docker for the devices to show up
• You'll need to reattach whenever the device is disconnected
• You'll need to dettach whenever you want to flash code to the Pico2 (outside of WSL2)