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How do I use Microduino (mCookie) on Linux?

I'm interested in getting the mCookie working in Linux — specifically, in Fedora 23. The Arduino IDE (version 1.6.4) is already available. I'm very familiar with Linux, fine with C, and completely new to Arduino.

The tutorials for Windows or Mac describe installing a customized version of the IDE along with drivers. Do I need special drivers on Linux? On the projects' GitHub site, I found the examples and a directory called 'avr' which has promising subdirectories like "bootloaders" and "libraries", along with files boards.txt and platform.txt.

Can I download this stuff and add it to the existing "system" arduino package somehow? How, and what will I need?

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First you will need the `arduino` 1.6.x package from `updates`, not the 1.0.x package from `fedora`. Then:

> You will be adding a URL to the new Additional Boards Manager URLs option: https://github.com/wasdpkj/Microduino-IDE-Support/raw/master/package_Microduino_index.json

<a href="https://github.com/wasdpkj/Microduino-IDE-Support">source</a>

<a href="https://learn.adafruit.com/add-boards-arduino-v164/overview">This tutorial</a> tells you where and how to add that URL to the preferences, as well as how to actually install the required support files.

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As of this writing, the platform configuration supplied as part of the above won't work out of the box in Linux; you will also have to edit `~/.arduino15/packages/Microduino/hardware/avr/1.6.7/platform.txt` to:

* replace `compiler.path={runtime.tools.avr-gcc.path}/bin/` with just `compiler.path=/usr/bin/`
* on the line starting `recipe.ar.pattern=`, change `{archive_file_path}` to `{build.path}/{archive_file}`

Hopefully this will be fixed in future versions.

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You probably also want to prevent ModemManager from probing the serial device with this udev rule, just replace the vendor and product IDs as appropriate:

 SUBSYSTEM=="usb-serial", ATTRS{idVendor}=="xxxx", ATTRS{idProduct}=="xxxx", ENV{ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE}="1"

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Nice, thanks! This resulted in an error: Could not find boards.txt in /home/mattdm/.arduino15/packages/Microduino/hardware/avr/1.6.7. Is it pre-1.5? and exit on startup. However, when looking at that directory, there's an avr subdirectory with boards.txt in; I moved everything up one level and now it seems to be working....

mattdm
– mattdm

2016年05月17日 22:42:38 +00:00
Commented May 17, 2016 at 22:42
@mattdm: That would seem to be a problem with their files; I also see all boards.txt files (on my system) directly in the architecture-appropriate directories rather than in any subdirectories.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

2016年05月17日 22:45:35 +00:00
Commented May 17, 2016 at 22:45
I guess I'll file a bug report.

mattdm
– mattdm

2016年05月17日 22:47:19 +00:00
Commented May 17, 2016 at 22:47
Ugh, that also hardcodes compiler.path={runtime.tools.avr-gcc.path}/bin/ in ./packages/Microduino/hardware/avr/1.6.7/platform.txt, when it should be (I think) just compiler.path=/usr/bin/ ... fixed that, and now I've got an error about {archive_file_path}. I've got some further research to do here, I see.

mattdm
– mattdm

2016年05月17日 23:08:58 +00:00
Commented May 17, 2016 at 23:08
So, from here, that should be replaced with {build.path}/{archive_file}. Now a really simple sketch compiles but does not seem to actually upload. That's the next step, I guess. :)

mattdm
– mattdm

2016年05月17日 23:12:30 +00:00
Commented May 17, 2016 at 23:12

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