Adding new devices using VID and PID

Other Hardware 3rd Party Boards
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I am using some hardware from unoriginal sources, and when I try to get Board Info, I will allways be informed that the board is unknown. I can find the produser using the VID and the PID, but is it possible to put this information into the Arduino GUI, so I can display the board, when I know what board I am using?

Regards

Ulf H.

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Just want to answer my own question:

Use "Get Board Info" to read vid and pid

Open boards.txt on the subdirectory for the ESP32 cards

https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/0.31/platform-specification/#board-vidpid:

Board VID/PID

USB vendor IDs (VID) and product IDs (PID) identify USB devices to the computer. If the board uses a unique VID/PID pair, it may be defined in boards.txt:

uno.vid.0=0x2341
uno.pid.0=0x0043
uno.vid.1=0x2341
uno.pid.1=0x0001

The vid and pid properties end with an arbitrary number, which allows multiple VID/PID pairs to be defined for a board. The snippet above is defining the 2341:0043 and 2341:0001 pairs used by Uno boards.

Worked like a dream.

Ulf