2.2.1 board manager, download additional boards

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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hi all, i got a new tablet for arduino, purely for this. its being setup as a pc.

it also runs windows 10

anyway i have been using 1.8.x on my pc and downloading boards via the boards manager was fine, however since downloading 2.2.1 on the tablet, i get the board manager to show but when i type in digistump i get nothing. can anyone help with this?

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Your topic has been moved to the IDE 2.x category of the forum

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thanks, i didnt see there was a catagory for it.

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What exactly happens when you open the Board Manager and enter digistump and what is Type set to in the dialogue ?

What happens if you enter a common board name such as Uno ?

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Hi @secretreeve. By default, only the platforms made by Arduino and their partners are listed in Boards Manager. In order to install 3rd party boards platforms like the ones for Digistump you must add the URL to the IDE preferences. Try this:

  1. Find the documentation for the 3rd party boards platform you want to install.
  2. Locate the Boards Manager URL that will be provided somewhere in that documentation.
  3. Select File > Preferences... from the Arduino IDE menus.
    The "Preferences" dialog will open.
  4. Enter the URL you obtained from the documentation in the previous step into the "Additional Boards Manager URLs" field in the "Preferences" dialog.
    :exclamation: If there are already Boards Manager URLs in the field, separate them with commas.
  5. Click the "OK" button.
  6. You will now see a "Downloading index: ..." notification at the bottom right corner of the IDE window. Wait for that notification to close.
  7. Select Tools > Board > Boards Manager from the Arduino IDE menus to open the "Boards Manager" view in the left side panel.
  8. Scroll down through the list of boards platforms until you see the entry for the platform you want to install.
  9. Click the "INSTALL" button at the bottom of the entry.
  10. Wait for the installation to finish.

You should now see the boards of the installed platform under the Tools > Board menu in Arduino IDE.

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so i go to tools > board>board manager and a tab opens along side the editor on the left.

type > All

search > uno > results include arduino AVR boards, arduino mega AVR boards and arduino UNO R4 boards.

those are the only results.

I have entered the following:

file> preferences > Additional boards manager urls>

http://digistump.com/package_digistump_index.json,http://drazzy.com/package_drazzy.com_index.json

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That is expected because those are the only platforms that have a board named "Uno". Why are you using the uno search keyword when you are hoping to install a Digistump boards platform? There is no Uno board in that platform.

Do you own a Digistump board (e.g., the Digispark)?

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i ran that search to answer uk helibobs question asking what happens when i search UNO.

yes i own a digispark, we use them in our projects on a weekly basis, typically with the optiboot bootloader so that will be the next hurdle.

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dont know what i did but the digistump avr boards package is now installing.

gotta get attinycore installed too so will see what happens

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Ah, I missed that reply that came in while I was composing mine about adding the URLs.

Great news! Thanks for taking the time to post an update.

Arduino IDE does need to download the package index file from the URL you added to your preferences before Boards Manager will list the platforms from the new index. So if you open Boards Manager and do a search before the index download is finished, the search results won't include those platforms. Maybe that was the cause.

OK, there is a known bug in Arduino IDE that affects the installation of ATTinyCore (and the other DrAzzy/SpenceKonde platforms) specifically (but not the Digistump platforms). If you have trouble, you can find instructions here:

I'll be happy to provide assistance with that if you end up running into trouble.

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modifications to file name made, showed up in the section but got an error message

failed to install platfor ;attinycore1.5.2.2 UNKNOWN get https//:azduino.com/bin/microneucleus-cli-2.5-adz1b-x86_64-mingw32.zip":failed to verify cirtificate: x509: certificate has expired or is not yet valid

could this be because its not an X86 or X64 processor?

edit: i found this but not sure if i should change the boards link in the additional boards manager

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i tried that one and it still didnt work. :frowning:

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This affects older IDE's (1.x).

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No.

I ran the procedure from the gentleman @ptillisch post, and the Digistump installed fine. Only difference is that I use Linux and you W10, but in reality it shouldn't matter.

Have you re-installed the IDE, to start from scratch?

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no, but im going to delete the files for the attinycore and begin again with those

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well that didnt work either :frowning:

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uninstalling and reinstalling also failed

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also, ledsyn, i got the digistump stuff installed, its the attiny core package that wont install

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I already got that installed since before :upside_down_face:

Edit: So now you know what to do, to install Linux!

When I hit the wall like this in Windows, I try another user, existing or a new, and then install from there. If it works, then there's a problem with the other users directory, or profile.

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not sure why its flagging up that error, in the output box it also states

error 2: unknown: get "https://azduino.com/bin/micronucleus/micronucleus-cli-2.5-azd1b-x86_64-mingw32.zip:tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate has expired or is not yet valid