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Announcing the Arduino Command Line Interface

67 points by el_duderino 8y ago

actionowl 8y ago
That's great, and much needed. There is also Ino which has been providing a CLI Interface for Arduino for some time: http://inotool.org/ http://inotool.org/
- shakna 8y ago
  Disclaimer: I have used inotool, and probably will again. I want the project, and prefer it to PlatformIO. Unfortunately, inotool is stuck in Python2 land, even though pip will report it works with Python 3, and then it'll fail to install, or fail to run. [0] That issue has been open for two years. In fact, nobody has worked on inotool for a while, and so when they were asked if somebody else could take over, they preferred it was forked. And so Arturo [1] was born. However, the owner of Arturo saw that PlatformIO solved the same problems, and so they shelved it. The last commit to inotool was in 2014. It's incompatible with more recent Arduino IDEs, prventing it from compiling .ino files. It uses an old Python that is about to real it's End Of Life date. It usually installs wrong with pip. The project is effectively dead. [0] https://github.com/amperka/ino/issues/266 https://github.com/amperka/ino/issues/266 [1] https://github.com/scottdarch/Arturo https://github.com/scottdarch/Arturo
  - actionowl 8y ago
    I guess I haven't used Ino in about 2 years as well and didn't realize that it fell into an unmaintained state!
krasin 8y ago
Arduino realized that people started to migrate to PlatformIO ([1]) that provides a very good IDE (as a plugin to Atom or VS Code, [2], [3]) and command line tools. That's a catch-up attempt. :) Disclosure: I am not directly affiliated with PlatformIO, but do like and follow the project for a while. 1. https://platformio.org/ https://platformio.org/ 2. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=platformio.platformio-ide https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=platform... 3. https://atom.io/packages/platformio-ide https://atom.io/packages/platformio-ide
- inyorgroove 8y ago
  This tool does not seem to accomplish the same thing though. What is nice about PlatformIO, it will fetch and install all tools, toolchains, libraries etc. needed to flash my device. This new tool still assumes that you will manually install the libraries/toolchains required to compile a `.ino` file.
  - hamandcheese 8y ago
    This tool appears to download everything needed for your board as well.
jimnotgym 8y ago
Discussion from when the github repo was posted 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17837250 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17837250
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67 points by el_duderino 8y ago

That's great, and much needed. There is also Ino which has been providing a CLI Interface for Arduino for some time: http://inotool.org/ http://inotool.org/

shakna 8y ago
Disclaimer: I have used inotool, and probably will again. I want the project, and prefer it to PlatformIO. Unfortunately, inotool is stuck in Python2 land, even though pip will report it works with Python 3, and then it'll fail to install, or fail to run. [0] That issue has been open for two years. In fact, nobody has worked on inotool for a while, and so when they were asked if somebody else could take over, they preferred it was forked. And so Arturo [1] was born. However, the owner of Arturo saw that PlatformIO solved the same problems, and so they shelved it. The last commit to inotool was in 2014. It's incompatible with more recent Arduino IDEs, prventing it from compiling .ino files. It uses an old Python that is about to real it's End Of Life date. It usually installs wrong with pip. The project is effectively dead. [0] https://github.com/amperka/ino/issues/266 https://github.com/amperka/ino/issues/266 [1] https://github.com/scottdarch/Arturo https://github.com/scottdarch/Arturo
- actionowl 8y ago
  I guess I haven't used Ino in about 2 years as well and didn't realize that it fell into an unmaintained state!

krasin 8y ago

Arduino realized that people started to migrate to PlatformIO ([1]) that provides a very good IDE (as a plugin to Atom or VS Code, [2], [3]) and command line tools. That's a catch-up attempt. :) Disclosure: I am not directly affiliated with PlatformIO, but do like and follow the project for a while. 1. https://platformio.org/ https://platformio.org/ 2. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=platformio.platformio-ide https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=platform... 3. https://atom.io/packages/platformio-ide https://atom.io/packages/platformio-ide

inyorgroove 8y ago
This tool does not seem to accomplish the same thing though. What is nice about PlatformIO, it will fetch and install all tools, toolchains, libraries etc. needed to flash my device. This new tool still assumes that you will manually install the libraries/toolchains required to compile a `.ino` file.
- hamandcheese 8y ago
  This tool appears to download everything needed for your board as well.

jimnotgym 8y ago

Discussion from when the github repo was posted 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17837250 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17837250

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