Aseba Studio looses connection with Aseba Playground on Mac

Created by: ypiguet-epfl

Aseba Studio quickly looses the connection with Aseba Playground with Thymio.playground. This is observed on macOS 10.12 with 1.6, but maybe it's a more general problem. It happens after a short while, typically 10-60 seconds, 100% of the time. After the first disconnection, Aseba Studio automatically reconnects successfully and immediately disconnects in an infinite loop. The visible consequence is that the VPL window, if open, closes upon disconnection and reopens upon reconnection, and the list of variables etc. on the left of the main Studio window disappears and reappears.