Monitoring avrdude calls in the Arduino IDE

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Hello,

I would like to monitor the calls to avrdude. I found a link that describes what I am looking for. However, I am confused by the implementation procedure listed. Not sure how to do it. The link is:

http://wiki.yobi.be/wiki/Arduino#Monitoring_avrdude_calls

Is this the only way to monitor avrdude calls in the Arduino IDE? If phrase what is needed to implement? Am I supposed to create some sort of .bat file?

Thanks,

ren

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If you hold down the shift key while clicking the upload button you should see the commands or at least the detailed avrdude output which may tell you what you need.

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Thanks bill2009,

That hint got me searching on how to enable this when you start the IDE. I found that if you add the following in the preferences.txt file it will also show the communication.

build.verbose = true
upload.verbose = true

I also found that you can view communication while uploading a bootloader by putting a line like usbtinyisp.force=true into programmers.txt.

I am still confused about the CMD lines though. Are these byte commands being sent to AVRDUDE from the IDE? How do you decode these commands?

avrdude: Using SCK period of 10 usec
CMD: [ac 53 00 00] [00 00 53 00]
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

CMD: [30 00 00 00] [00 30 00 1e]
CMD: [30 00 01 00] [00 30 00 95]
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.02s

CMD: [30 00 02 00] [00 30 00 0f]
avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f

Thanks,

-ren