Automate the Arduino IDE

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I am working on uploading code to over 100 Arduino boards. Needless to say it is a bit time consuming and back-breaking to program them each manually. I am on the verge of being able to wirelessly ( using Xbee's ) program each individual module.

My next step is to automate the process. I have very little experience ( but some ) writing windows apps, scripts, etc.

Can anyone suggest the best way to do this? All I would need to do is access a terminal window and then the Arduino IDE with this app/script.

Should I use Visual Basic or some other method?

Thanks for any help you can give.

Cheers.

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Find your preferences file

Turn on verbose logging

Upload your script

Look for the avrdude commands in the logging

put the avrdude commands in a batch file (shell script, whatever) with a loop and a pause (so you can plug in the next board).

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If you are setup to build outside of the IDE using just a Makefile, you do not have to mess with changing the logging verbosity.

I build everything outside the IDE and just edit with my favorite syntax highlighting editor now. Building within IDE 0012 gets errors I don't see when building using just a Makefile.

Hopefully, this will be fixed in IDE 0013.

8-Dale