Platformio-atom-ide: Uncaught Error: Failed to get boards (OS X)

[arkzor]

Hi !

Just tried to install platformio ide (http://platformio.org/get-started/ide?dl=platformio-atom-mac.zip) and I get this error when I try to begin a new project. I already read the other thread about this error on Windows 10 but the solution does not seem to work on OS X... When I try to uninstall the package from Atom (like the other user did) I get this error : Failed to delete platformio-ide: Does not exist. But it is listed in the installed packages...

The platformio command line is working fine from the terminal window.

I also tried to download a clean Atom at first and then install platformio-ide and platformio-ide-terminal but I still get the same error.

Thank you for your help.

Nicholas

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Atom Version: 1.7.1
System: Mac OS X 10.11.4
Thrown From: platformio-ide package, v1.2.0

Stack Trace

Uncaught Error: Failed to get boards

At /Users/nicko/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/lib/utils.js:173

Error: Failed to get boards
    at getBoards (/Users/nicko/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/lib/utils.js:173:13)
    at InitializeNewProjectView.initializeBoardsSelect (/Users/nicko/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/lib/init/view.js:67:20)
    at new InitializeNewProjectView (/Users/nicko/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/lib/init/view.js:63:10)
    at command (/Users/nicko/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/lib/init/command.js:34:14)
    at atom-workspace.platformioIdeInitializeNewProject (/Users/nicko/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/lib/main.js:71:54)
    at CommandRegistry.module.exports.CommandRegistry.handleCommandEvent (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/src/command-registry.js:260:29)
    at CommandRegistry.handleCommandEvent (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/src/command-registry.js:3:61)
    at CommandRegistry.module.exports.CommandRegistry.dispatch (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/src/command-registry.js:160:19)
    at runAtomCommand (/Users/nicko/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/lib/utils.js:109:24)
    at HTMLAnchorElement.callback (/Users/nicko/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/lib/home-screen/quick-links.js:36:25)

Commands

     -0:00.5.0 platformio-ide:initialize-new-project (atom-workspace.workspace.scrollbars-visible-always.theme-one-dark-syntax.theme-one-dark-ui)

Config

{}

Installed Packages

# User
autocomplete-clang, v0.9.3
build, v0.60.0
language-ini, v1.16.0
linter, v1.11.4
linter-gcc, v0.6.14
platformio-ide, v1.2.0
platformio-ide-terminal, v2.0.9
tool-bar, v0.4.0

# Dev
No dev packages

[dmytrokyrychuk]

When I try to uninstall the package from Atom (like the other user did) I get this error : Failed to delete platformio-ide: Does not exist. But it is listed in the installed packages...

How exactly do you uninstall the package? With apm uninstall or from Atom Settings GUI?

[arkzor]

Hi !

With atom settings, with apm I succeeded but after reinstallation same
problem.

Nicholas
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 2:08 PM Dmytro Kyrychuk [email protected]
wrote:

When I try to uninstall the package from Atom (like the other user did) I
get this error : Failed to delete platformio-ide: Does not exist. But it is
listed in the installed packages...

How exactly do you uninstall the package? With apm uninstall or from Atom
Settings GUI?

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[ivankravets]

@arkzor could you remove ~/.atom folder and restart IDE?

[arkzor]

@ivankravets : Well, thank you very much ! :) It works !

[vannut]

Am getting the same error. But removing the ~/.atom folder and restarting does not the trick.
It resets the complete atom install and the need to reinstall the platform.io package.

Any other possible ways to solve this?

[ivankravets]

@vannut what is your version of PlatformIO CLI?

[vannut]

PlatformIO, version 2.10.3
And in atom: platformio-ide: 1.4.0

[ivankravets]

Do you use custom PlatformIO CLI? I see that the version is different than the latest.

[vannut]

I first only installed the package through atom.io. And afterwards the CLI through homebrew.

[ivankravets]

You don't need to install CLI via Brew. It's built-in in PlatformIO IDE.

Please brew uninstall platformio and restart IDE

[vannut]

Uninstalled platformio via homebrew.
Still getting the error: https://gist.github.com/vannut/7a9918a00abab2e668bb552413e5c422

[ivankravets]

Please open PlatformIO IDE Terminal. What do you see with this command?

pio boards

[vannut]

Nope same error: https://gist.github.com/vannut/284ad5f3485c8f208815a3210647114d

[ivankravets]

You have broken board manifest in ~/.platformio/boards/. I've just added error warning when an user wrote broken JSON manifest. This is implemented in the latest PlatformIO 3.0 development version. See https://github.com/platformio/platformio/commit/aa19b1c424f9a2baa9462269358cd42a7da889d2

Please switch to development version http://docs.platformio.org/en/stable/installation.html#development-version

[vannut]

That's it!! What a waste of time debugging this:) I like the #aa19b1c commit :)

[ivankravets]

@vannut Happy Coding with PlatformIO! 😊

[vannut]

Will do! It's finally working and I already feel the relief of the burden of the arduino ide :) Now only figuring out how a library installed wit pio lib install can be used in an .cpp

[ivankravets]

Now only figuring out how a library installed wit pio lib install can be used in an .cpp

Just place #include <LibHeader.h> on the top of project file. PlatformIO will find this library automatically, built and link to final firmware.

[vannut]

Nope :(

[ivankravets]

See http://docs.platformio.org/en/stable/ide/atom.html#smart-code-linter

[vannut]

👍
Ah damn. I looked at the docs about the library manager. Would be a good idea to put that there too :)

[ivankravets]

@vannut how did you install a library? This is really a bug in PlatformIO IDE. It doesn't monitor new PlatformIO 3.0 library storages.

In any case, I updated the docs https://github.com/platformio/platformio/commit/a57ed939234f6fd12d312d5d6fe879502d4c98f8

[vannut]

👍 I installed it via the Library manager:pio lib search RN_2483 and then pio lib install 405

[ivankravets]

Please show me an output of pio lib list

[vannut]

pio lib list
[ ID  ] Name             Compatibility         "Authors": Description
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ 405 ] Sodaq_RN2483     arduino, atmelavr, atmelsam, espressif, intel_arc32, microchippic32, nordicnrf51, tee
nsy, timsp430 "Alex Tsamakos, SODAQ, Kees Bakker": An Arduino library for the Microchip RN2483.
[ 416 ] TinyGPS          arduino, atmelavr     "Mikal Hart": A compact NMEA (GPS) parsing library

After a rebuilt it now finds both library's.
Would be a nice feature to know what header file you need to include.

[ivankravets]

Hm... What is your pio --version?

Would be a nice feature to know what header file you need to include.

In this case, please use PlatformIO Library Registry where is explained in examples which headers need to use:

• http://platformio.org/lib/show/405/Sodaq_RN2483
• http://platformio.org/lib/show/416/TinyGPS

[vannut]

PlatformIO, version 2.11.2

[ivankravets]

Did you install that libraries from PlatformIO IDE Terminal?

[vannut]

Jups. I clicked on button in the ribbon:

Then the terminal popped up:
pio lib search rn2483
pio lib install 405

[ivankravets]

Thanks, that really a bug. I'll test it.

[vannut]

:) Glad to help :)

[DeniseBryson]

I get the same error. Uncaught error: Failed to get boards
Tried to delete ~/.atom, restart Atom and reinstall PlatformIO IDE but the error stayed the same.
I use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

The version shown on the Welcome screen shows this.
IDE 1.6.0 | CLI Failed to retrieve

pio boards puts out a long list of different platforms

pio --version
PlatformIO, version 3.1.0

There is some confusion on the atom --version.
Using a normal terminal or just checking under Help.
It shows: Atom : 1.12.5
Using the PlatformIO IDE Terminal I get:

cooper@CooperBook:~$ atom --version
v6.5.0

[ivankravets]

@DeniseBryson please report to https://community.platformio.org