Arduino-cli: Adafruit SAMD Boards are not found by arduino-cli core search
I just installed arduino-cli on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS box.
I have an Adafruit ItsyBitsy M0 board. When I plug this in, the operating system detects it as
Mar 09 19:09:20 deaf58 kernel: usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
Mar 09 19:09:20 deaf58 kernel: usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=239a, idProduct=800f
Mar 09 19:09:20 deaf58 kernel: usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Mar 09 19:09:20 deaf58 kernel: usb 3-1: Product: ItsyBitsy M0 Express
Mar 09 19:09:20 deaf58 kernel: usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Adafruit
Mar 09 19:09:20 deaf58 kernel: usb 3-1: SerialNumber: F384ECC6504B5952312E314AFF021834
Mar 09 19:09:20 deaf58 kernel: cdc_acm 3-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
Mar 09 19:09:20 deaf58 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
Mar 09 19:09:20 deaf58 kernel: cdc_acm: USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters
...and arduino-cli sees it as:
usbob2@deaf58:~/Arduino/MyFirstSketch$ arduino-cli board list
FQBN Port ID Board Name
/dev/ttyACM0 239a:800f unknown
Searching for a core under the 'adafruit' name yields this:
usbob2@deaf58:~/Arduino/MyFirstSketch$ arduino-cli core search 'adafruit'
Searching for platforms matching 'adafruit'
ID Version Name
arduino:avr 1.6.23 Arduino AVR Boards
arduino:samd 1.6.20 Arduino SAMD Boards (32-bits ARM Cortex-M0+)
However it cannot find contributed boards under the name "Adafruit SAMD Boards" which the Arduino 1.8.8 GUI on my Mac does locate, if I open "Boards Manager..." and search for contributed Adafruit boards.
I installed this:
usbob2@deaf58:~/Arduino/MyFirstSketch$ arduino-cli core install arduino:samd
...but my board is still not detected:
usbob2@deaf58:~/Arduino/MyFirstSketch$ arduino-cli board list
FQBN Port ID Board Name
/dev/ttyACM0 239a:800f unknown
I'm not familiar with the Go programming language, but if there is some way I can contribute to arduino-cli that will help resolve this issue, I'm happy to do so.
Thanks!
BobCochran
All 26 comments
I re-read the README.md and noticed the text for adding third-party cores and then update the package index. I attempted to add this package index:
https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
to arduino-cli.yaml as instructed. However, the arduino-cli tree has 3 arduino-cli.yaml files in these locations:
go/src/github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/configs/testdata/navigate/inheritance/first/arduino-cli.yaml
go/src/github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/configs/testdata/navigate/inheritance/first/second/arduino-cli.yaml
go/src/github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/configs/testdata/navigate/local/first/second/arduino-cli.yaml
I updated all of them like so:
sketchbook_path: /tmp
board_manager:
additional_urls:
- https://downloads.arduino.cc/package_index_mraa.json
- https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
...but this did not seem to download the package_adafruit_index.json.
I also added arduino-cli.yaml to the path
go/src/github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/configs
...but this did not seem to get the adafruit package index downloaded, either.
BobCochran
on 10 Mar 2019
This might help.
gdsports
on 10 Mar 2019
@gdsports Thank you! I looked in yaml_serializer.go but could not find anything in the format mentioned in Issue #5. That issue references a file .cli_config.yml that does not exist. I did notice a configuration.go file that is in ~/go/src/github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/configs and that seems to have a function NewConfiguration which, in part, returns this:
BoardManagerAdditionalUrls: []*url.URL{defaultPackageIndexURL}
I'm thinking of changing that to point to Adafruit's package index file and seeing what happens.
It's still unclear how exactly to add additional URL's in a way that will be parsed and processed properly.
BobCochran
on 10 Mar 2019
However, the arduino-cli tree has 3 arduino-cli.yaml files in these locations:
go/src/github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/configs/testdata/navigate/inheritance/first/arduino-cli.yaml
go/src/github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/configs/testdata/navigate/inheritance/first/second/arduino-cli.yaml
go/src/github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/configs/testdata/navigate/local/first/second/arduino-cli.yaml
Those are used for testing of arduino-cli. They will not be used when you're actually running arduino-cli.
If you want to see the locations that are searched for your arduino-ci.yaml file, run this command:
arduino-cli config dump --debug
The priority is opposite of the order they are listed in the debug output (i.e. the configuration file in the current folder overrides the configuration file in the .arduino15 folder).
I also added arduino-cli.yaml to the path
go/src/github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/configs
Unless you're actually building arduino-cli from source, it doesn't make sense for you to be editing files in the source code.
That issue references a file .cli_config.yml that does not exist.
The file name has since been changed from .cli_config.yml to arduino-ci.yaml.
I'm thinking of changing that to point to Adafruit's package index file and seeing what happens.
Unless you just enjoy hacking around in the code, you're better off using arduino-cli as it was designed to be used.
It's still unclear how exactly to add additional URL's in a way that will be parsed and processed properly.
This is the correct format:
board_manager:
additional_urls:
- https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
Note that the file in your other URL: https://downloads.arduino.cc/package_index_mraa.json does not exist and having this invalid URL will cause the installation of Adafruit SAMD Boards to fail.
With the above configuration in your arduino-ci.yaml file, you can now do this:
arduino-cli core update-index
arduino-cli core install adafruit:samd
It seems to me that the root of this issue is the need for documentation of the possible locations of arduino-ci.yaml. The format of the additional Boards Manager URLs in that file is already correctly documented here: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli#adding-3rd-party-cores
per1234
on 11 Mar 2019
@per1234, I'm very confused and need some clarity here. I installed arduino-cli within the past 24 hours. So I'm getting the most recent version of the master branch. I'm running it on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server box. You say in your post above that I should add my additional_urls to this file:
arduino-ci.yaml
However, it does not exist anywhere under my ~/go/src/github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/ directory. Can you tell me exactly where this file is located?
Do I need to check out a totally different branch of arduino-cli in order to find the file, because it has not yet been merged into the master branch?
I did in fact change the file configuration.go to add the Adafruit package index to it. It took a bit of research to see how arrays and slices are created in go, and some experimentation. Eventually I was able to run go install, get a new binary, and the package indexes downloaded:
~/Arduino/MyFirstSketch$ arduino-cli core update-index
Updating index: package_index.json downloaded
Updating index: package_adafruit_index.json downloaded
This allowed me to install the correct Adafruit core:
~/Arduino/MyFirstSketch$ arduino-cli core list
ID Installed Latest Name
adafruit:[email protected] 1.3.0 1.3.0 Adafruit SAMD Boards
arduino:[email protected] 1.6.23 1.6.23 Arduino AVR Boards
arduino:[email protected] 1.6.20 1.6.20 Arduino SAMD Boards (32-bits ARM Cortex-M0+)
I was able to successfully compile MyFirstSketch. Unfortunately the upload failed due to an issue with the bossac path:
~$ arduino-cli upload -p /dev/ttyACM0 --fqbn adafruit:samd:adafruit_itsybitsy_m0 Arduino/MyFirstSketch
Error: fork/exec {runtime.tools.bossac-1.7.0.path}/bossac: no such file or directory
Could not execute upload tool.
The real point of this particular issue is to ask you:
What is the path and name of the configuration file that needs to be edited in order to add additional URLs? The file name given in README.md appears to be wrong. No path to the file is specified.
Update:
I followed your suggestion and executed
$ arduino-cli config dump --debug
...and now I understand. arduino-cli is looking for the arduino-cli.yaml file in the root of my home directory:
INFO[0000] error loading error="open /home/xxxx/arduino-cli.yaml: no such file or directory"
This helps. The README.md file could be updated to explicitly state "put the arduino-cli.yaml file in the root of your home directory: for example, $HOME/arduino-cli.yaml.
Thanks so much!
BobCochran
on 11 Mar 2019
The Adafruit SAMD board package depends on files in the Arduino SAMD board package so be sure to install both. The missing bossac error is almost always because the Arduino SAMD board package is not installed.
gdsports
on 11 Mar 2019
I do have Arduino SAMD Boards installed.
per1234
on 11 Mar 2019
I have the following board packages installed. Are these sufficient to avoid the "no such file or directory" error I experienced with bossac?
$ arduino-cli core list
ID Installed Latest Name
adafruit:[email protected] 1.3.0 1.3.0 Adafruit SAMD Boards
arduino:[email protected] 1.6.23 1.6.23 Arduino AVR Boards
arduino:[email protected] 1.6.20 1.6.20 Arduino SAMD Boards (32-bits ARM Cortex-M0+)
@BobCochran Looks good to me. If missing files messages are still appearing you may have found a bug.
gdsports
on 12 Mar 2019
@BobCochran The problem might be considered a bug in Adafruit's board package or the new arduino-cli, I do not know which. I use the older Arduino IDE command line interface which works fine with Adafruit, ESP, SparkFun, etc. boards.
Here is an example.
#!/bin/bash
# Arduino command line build using the Arduino IDE command line interface
# https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/master/build/shared/manpage.adoc
IDEVER="1.8.8"
WORKDIR="/tmp/autobuild_$$"
mkdir -p ${WORKDIR}
# Install Ardino IDE in work directory
tar xf ~/Downloads/arduino-${IDEVER}-linux64.tar.xz -C ${WORKDIR}
# Create portable sketchbook and library directories
IDEDIR="${WORKDIR}/arduino-${IDEVER}"
LIBDIR="${IDEDIR}/portable/sketchbook/libraries"
mkdir -p "${LIBDIR}"
export PATH="${IDEDIR}:${PATH}"
cd ${IDEDIR}
which arduino
# Install Adafruit SAMD board package
arduino --pref "boardsmanager.additional.urls=https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json" --save-prefs
arduino --install-boards "adafruit:samd"
# Build Blink.ino for Adafruit Trinket M0
BOARD="adafruit:samd:adafruit_trinket_m0"
CC="arduino --port /dev/ttyACM2 --upload --verbose-upload --board ${BOARD}"
# This step fails with missing bossac
$CC ./examples/01.Basics/Blink/Blink.ino
# This fixs the missing bossac problem
arduino --install-boards "arduino:samd"
$CC ./examples/01.Basics/Blink/Blink.ino
@gdsports thank you so much for the comment and for providing the example. I'm going to dig into this some more and play with your script. I did have the 1.8.8 IDE downloaded to my Ubuntu account and untapped, but then I discovered arduino-cli. I was afraid the IDE might conflict with arduino-cli so I deleted it. That is easily fixed, I can re-download again and keep trying. I'll file an issue about bossac to either the Adafruit package repository or to arduino-cli. I definitely like using arduino devices on the linux command line.
BobCochran
on 12 Mar 2019
I am also experiencing the issue of the bossac path being non-resolvable. It looks like it is an issue with arduino-cli not expanding the variable correctly as it seems to be trying to execute the variable name. The tool is apparently 'loaded':
INFO[0000] Configuration set
INFO[0000] arduino-cli-0.3.6-alpha.preview
INFO[0000] Starting root command preparation (`arduino`)
INFO[0000] Formatter set
INFO[0000] Reading sketch from dir: /Users/johnwhittington/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Adafruit_DRV2605/examples/basic
INFO[0000] Initializing package manager
INFO[0000] Loading hardware from: /Users/johnwhittington/Library/arduino15/packages
INFO[0000] Loading package adafruit from: /Users/johnwhittington/Library/arduino15/packages/adafruit/hardware
INFO[0000] Loaded platform platform="adafruit:[email protected]"
INFO[0000] Loading package arduino from: /Users/johnwhittington/Library/arduino15/packages/arduino/hardware
INFO[0000] Loaded platform platform="arduino:[email protected]"
INFO[0000] Checking existence of 'tools' path: /Users/johnwhittington/Library/arduino15/packages/arduino/tools
INFO[0000] Loading tools from dir: /Users/johnwhittington/Library/arduino15/packages/arduino/tools
INFO[0000] Loaded tool tool="arduino:[email protected]"
INFO[0000] Loaded tool tool="arduino:[email protected]"
INFO[0000] Loaded tool tool="arduino:[email protected]"
INFO[0000] Loaded tool tool="arduino:[email protected]"
INFO[0000] Loaded tool tool="arduino:[email protected]"
INFO[0000] Loaded tool tool="arduino:[email protected]"
INFO[0000] Loaded tool tool="arduino:[email protected]"
INFO[0000] Loaded tool tool="arduino:[email protected]"
INFO[0000] Loaded tool tool="arduino:[email protected]"
INFO[0000] Loading package builtin from: /Users/johnwhittington/Library/arduino15/packages/builtin
INFO[0000] Checking existence of 'tools' path: /Users/johnwhittington/Library/arduino15/packages/builtin/tools
INFO[0000] Loading tools from dir: /Users/johnwhittington/Library/arduino15/packages/builtin/tools
INFO[0000] Loaded tool tool="builtin:[email protected]"
INFO[0000] Searching tools required for board adafruit:samd:adafruit_feather_m0
INFO[0000] Touching port /dev/cu.usbmodem14421401 at 1200bps
INFO[0000] Waiting for upload port...
No new serial port detected.
ERRO[0011] Could not execute upload tool. error="fork/exec {runtime.tools.bossac-1.7.0.path}/bossac: no such file or directory"
Error: fork/exec {runtime.tools.bossac-1.7.0.path}/bossac: no such file or directory
Could not execute upload tool.
Perhaps this issue should be renamed to 'Adafruit SAMD Bossac tool not resolving'
tuna-f1sh
on 18 Apr 2019
@BobCochran I had a similar issue with the board detection for the Adafruit Feather M0 SAMD board. That particular issue isn’t with the Arduino CLI, that issue is with the boards.txt file inside the Adafruit SAMD board package. See here for an issue I opened in their repository to fix that problem.
If you know which board it should be listed as, they can make similar adjustments to the VID and PID values on the appropriate board and that will resolve it being “unknown” even though the package is present.
jeff-winn
on 10 Jun 2019
Error: fork/exec {runtime.tools.bossac-1.7.0.path}/bossac: no such file or directory
This is a bug on Adafruit's end:
https://github.com/adafruit/arduino-board-index/issues/22
for which a pull request has been submitted (but not yet merged):
https://github.com/adafruit/arduino-board-index/pull/23/files
per1234
on 15 Jun 2019
Upstream issue issue is fixed, any update on this?
masci
on 28 Aug 2019
Before https://github.com/adafruit/arduino-board-index/pull/32 was merged, I was able to reproduce the error on both the Arduino IDE and arduino-cli.
Using Adafruit SAMD Boards 1.5.3 (which correctly specifies its tool dependency on arduino's bossac 1.7.0 tool), with the Arduino IDE, the problem is fixed.
However, when I use it with arduino-cli @ fffa451acd60da9341df523c79e10e429c21de22, I get the same error during uploading:
Error during Upload: cannot execute upload tool: exec: "{runtime.tools.bossac-1.7.0.path}/bossac": file does not exist
The installation of Adafruit SAMD Boards 1.5.3 via arduino-cli core install adafruit:samd did install bossac 1.7.0 under the arduino_data folder at packages/arduino/tools/bossac/1.7.0, the same as was done by the installation in the Arduino IDE Boards Manager.
So it seems to me that, in addition to the fixed bug in the Adafruit SAMD Boards Boards Manager JSON file that caused the error, there is also a bug in arduino-cli that causes the same error even after the problem in Adafruit SAMD Boards was fixed.
per1234
on 29 Aug 2019
I think I have a similar issue. I am able to search for Adafruit SAMD boards and install them too using the following input from arduino-cli.yaml -
board_manager:
additional_urls:
- https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
- https://www.adafruit.com/package_adafruit_index.json
After that search and update-index and install works.
However the error comes with the bossac files -
$ arduino-cli upload --fqbn adafruit:samd:adafruit_feather_m0_express -p /dev/ttyACM0 blinky
No new serial port detected.
Error: cannot execute upload tool: fork/exec {runtime.tools.bossac-1.7.0.path}/bossac: no such file or directory
Error during Upload
armsp
on 2 Sep 2019
In https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json there are two bossac tools listed as required:
{
"packager": "arduino",
"name": "bossac",
"version": "1.7.0"
},
{
"packager": "arduino",
"name": "bossac",
"version": "1.8.0-48-gb176eee"
},
I don't know if the Adafruit core requires both version, anyway this "confuses" the CLI (that accepts only the last one). If I manually remove the extra tool from the index it works.
At a first glance I though that the index.json should be fixed by removing the extra instance of bossac, but in reality we already have enough expressivity in place to allow multiple versions of the same tool to be used, so maybe the fix could be to allow it.
cmaglie
on 5 Sep 2019
I don't know if the Adafruit core requires both version
It does. They have two different upload tools defined in their platform.txt and used in boards.txt: bossac (which uses bossac 1.7.0), and bossac18 (which uses 1.8.0-48-gb176eee)
per1234
on 5 Sep 2019
@cmaglie which one did you remove? Or either of them work?
What do you recommend we do? Wait for the changes you mention or manually edit the file and get it working?
armsp
on 5 Sep 2019
@per1234 @cmaglie Well in that case I guess its not advisable to manually edit the file, is it?
armsp
on 5 Sep 2019
Nope, a fix for the cli is coming.
cmaglie
on 5 Sep 2019
@facchinm @cmaglie any tentative release date for this fix ?
armsp
on 14 Sep 2019
It will be in the next 0.6.0 release, but not timeline yet.
You can try it using the nightly build: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli#download-a-nightly-build
cmaglie
on 16 Sep 2019
@cmaglie Okay, great. Checked it with the nightly build....it worked on Adafruit Feather M0 Express : SAMD21 (which wasn't working before).
armsp
on 16 Sep 2019
Has there been a regression of this? I'm seeing the same issue in version 0.6.0:
$ arduino-cli version
arduino-cli Version: 0.6.0 Commit: 3a08b07d458ef65fdefe88a7d71056227f626f5a
$ arduino-cli upload -p /dev/cu.usbmodem14301 --fqbn adafruit:samd:adafruit_feather_m0 test
No new serial port detected.
Error during Upload: cannot execute upload tool: fork/exec {runtime.tools.bossac-1.7.0-arduino3.path}/bossac: no such file or directory
UPDATE:
Looks like the problem lies with Adafruit:
https://github.com/adafruit/arduino-board-index/issues/47#issuecomment-567709110
photomoose
on 19 Dec 2019
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