Finding your boards
Ten identical boards on a bench are identical right up until the wrong one gets a program. The scanner exists so that never has to be a guess: it finds every board it can reach and says where it is, what it is, and what it runs.
Open it with the 
button next to the port picker, or
Online → Find devices…. Every open starts a fresh sweep — a
board unplugged since the last look is not still sitting in the list.
That is a real bench mid-scan: nine rows from seven boards — the networked ones answer twice, once per way of reaching them. Every question the dialog exists to answer is on it somewhere: which port is the Discovery board? (COM10), which of the identical inoCORE boards runs the Modbus slave? (the Program column), which boards still run last week's firmware? (the orange versions), what address did the WiFi board get? (192.168.0.233).
What a sweep does
Two searches run together:
- Every COM port is asked politely — the probe opens the port without touching the reset lines, so nothing restarts, not even a board that is busy doing real work.
- The local network is swept for boards answering on it — ethernet and WiFi alike.
Anything that answers becomes a row:
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Port / address | where the board was found — COM7, or an IP |
| Board | which hardware it is, resolved from the catalogue |
| Program | the name of the project it is running |
| ver | the firmware version on the board |
| IP | the board's own address, when it has one |
The board column comes from the board itself: every runtime reports a hardware identity, and the editor's catalogue turns it into a name. A row saying older firmware is a board whose runtime predates the identity report — flash the runtime and it will introduce itself properly.
The program name
The name in the Program column is the project name — the name:
in the project file, downloaded with the project. Name projects after
what they do (packing_line_3, not test2) and the scanner becomes an
inventory: ten identical boards, each saying which job it holds.
A board with an older runtime, or no project yet, shows no name.
The version column
Green means the board's firmware matches the editor. Orange means the board is older than the editor — it runs fine, but before the next download it should get the matching runtime (Flash runtime on the board page). The editor and the runtimes install together and carry the same version on purpose, so matching is one number, not a compatibility table.
Use
Use on a row points the editor at that board — the port picker takes the row's port or address, and the dialog closes. When the board's program name matches one of your recent projects, that project opens too: Use means "work with this board", and the editor sets up everything that follows from it.
The button only appears where it works: a serial row always, a network row only for boards whose firmware takes editor connections over the network. A row without Use is still information — the board is there, it answers, and its WEBview is a browser away.