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CapnBry Junior Member Offline Posts: 32 Joined: Nov 4^th, 2011	Custom Uploader not seen unless in Arduino install dir May 29^th, 2014 at 5:53pm	Print Post
	I usually SSH or HTTP POST my sketches to their hardware after building using some shell scripts I've created. I noticed that the newest Visual Micro supports the Arduino 1.5.x extensions to allow custom uploaded so I was stoked about being able to upload right from Visual Studio. Arduino/hardware/avr/platform.txt Code To\SSH avrdude.bat" tools.brydude.program.pattern="{cmd.path}" {build.path}/{build.project_name}.hex tools.brydude.program.params.quiet= Arduino/hardware/avr/programmers.txt Code brydude.name=BryDUDE brydude.program.tool=brydude brydude.program.extra_params= This works great when I add them to the bottom of their respective files in the Arduino install directory, but they don't work if I put them in a USERPROFILE/Arduino/hardware/avr/ directory (the programmer doesn't even show up on the list). Is this supported at all? What path is searched for platform.txt and programmers.txt files?


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12163 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Custom Uploader not seen unless in Arduino install dir Reply #1 - May 29^th, 2014 at 7:01pm	Print Post
	Strange, the programmer should show up regardless, there is no validation prior to running the command. Can you please email the .txt files with your preferred config to (info[at]visualmicro.com) so I can see what it's doing. Thanks Other info might or might not be useful... the {variables} can be anything so you could just as easily use... \SSH avrdude.bat tools.brydude.program.pattern="{brydude_uploader_path}" {build.path}/{build.project_name}.hex From my memory I think vm also supports windows environment %variables% I think two sets of quotes could be applied because you have then around the cmd.path= and also around the "{cmd.path}"
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12163 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Custom Uploader not seen unless in Arduino install dir Reply #2 - May 29^th, 2014 at 9:21pm	Print Post
	1.5 custom boards location should be C:\Users\tl\Documents\Arduino\hardware\avr\[custom board collection name] Sorry for the slow forum, Hopefully moving to a new server over the next couple of days
	« Last Edit: May 29^th, 2014 at 9:31pm by Tim@Visual Micro »

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CapnBry Junior Member Offline Posts: 32 Joined: Nov 4^th, 2011	Re: Custom Uploader not seen unless in Arduino install dir Reply #3 - May 30^th, 2014 at 8:55pm	Print Post
	Tim worked it out with me and the issue was just that my board had to be selected before the programmer would show up as being available. Totally working as it should. For anyone curious how to flash an Arduino that's plugged into a remote machine, I use Putty's plink utility and just pipe the hex file over ssh to the machine. Code rem DEV can be either by the ID of the FTDI adapter (stays the same no matter rem what order it is plugged in) set DEV=/dev/serial/by-id/usb-FTDI_FT232R_USB_UART_A700eYGn-if00-port0 rem OR the sequential numbered device rem set DEV=/dev/ttyUSB0 rem change this to where you have putty installed cd \SysTools\Putty plink yourusername@machine.address.net avrdude -p m328p -c arduino -P %DEV% -V -D -Uflash:w:-:i < "%1"


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