Arduino sketch upload

[robotmaster1989]

I want to automatically upload a sketch to an Arduino uno without using the application

[ptillisch]

My suggestion is to use the --format json flag in your arduino-cli board list command. This will cause the output to be in the machine readable JSON format.

You can pipe that output through the jq tool, which parses JSON. You can use this as the jq filter argument to get the port from the arduino-cli board list output: '.[0].port.address'

In shell, I would do this:

arduino-cli upload -b arduino:samd:mkrwifi1010 -p $(arduino-cli board list --fqbn arduino:samd:mkrwifi1010 --format json | jq -r '.[0].port.address') C:/Desktop/sketch.ino

I don't know about what changes would be needed to do that in a Windows batch file though. I do my best to avoid any involvement with that frustrating language these days.

[manchuino]

Hi @robotmaster1989, what is your target Operating System?

[oqibidipo]

PowerShell can handle JSON without any extra tools..

upload.ps1
You can give FQBN as a parameter, case insensitive, can be a pattern like *:uno.
Modify the arduino-cli upload ... line according to your needs.

param([string]$Board = "arduino:samd:mkrwifi1010")

$cli_board_list = arduino-cli board list --format json | ConvertFrom-JSON

if ($cli_board_list.count -eq 0) {
    echo "No boards connected!"
    exit
}

# create simple object(s) with only the fields we need
$board_list = $cli_board_list | foreach-object {
    [PSCustomObject] @{
        Name = $_.matching_boards.name
	FQBN = $_.matching_boards.fqbn
	Port = $_.port.label
    }
}

echo "Connected boards"
$board_list | format-table

$m_boards = $board_list | Where-Object { $_.fqbn -like $board }

if ($m_boards.count -eq 0) {
    echo "No boards matching $board found"
    exit
}

echo "Boards matching $board"
$m_boards | format-table

if ($m_boards.count -gt 1) {
    echo "multiple boards matching $board found"
}
elseif ($m_boards.port -like "COM*") {
    arduino-cli upload --fqbn $m_boards.fqbn --port $m_boards.port 
}
else {
    echo "????"
}