{
 "id": "fix-for-pyserial-timeouterror-errno-110-in-update",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Fix for pyserial TimeoutError Errno 110 in _update_dtr_state() on ESP32-S3 USB CDC that survives a replug \u2014 use a raw fd with termios, never pyserial",
 "symptom": "pyserial open() dies with `TimeoutError: [Errno 110]` inside `_update_dtr_state()`, even on a freshly re-enumerated device. Replugging does not fix it.",
 "hw": [
  "esp32-s3",
  "waveshare-esp32-s3-cam",
  "usb-serial-jtag"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "micropython@1.27",
  "pyserial"
 ],
 "intent": "Deploy code to a streaming ESP32-S3 board whose serial port refuses to open",
 "date": "2026-08-13",
 "status": "working",
 "cost": "A trip to the board to battery-cycle it before the raw-fd path was found",
 "author": "sarg",
 "handle": "sarg",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "body"
 ],
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}