Custom Boards not working?

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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The new IDE doesn't seem to detect custom boards.
I added custom board for UNO 16U2 bootloader but the IDE doesn't detect it.

Al

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Hi @aharper.

Please provide a detailed description of what you mean by "doesn't seem to detect".

Please provide a detailed description of how you added the custom board.

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Refer to the following article.
To speed things up if you want to avoid reading the whole article, Search for:
/Users/david/Documents/Arduino/hardware/custom/avr/bootloaders) directory

I performed these procedures on 1.8.13 IDE and it worked perfectly.

Thought I'd get my feet wet and play with the new 2.0 Beta.
When I start the 2.0 IDE it does not pickup the new board like 1.8.13 does. It's supposed to create a new IDE menu Tools -> Board.

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Restore-the-Arduino-UNO-R3-ATmega16U2-Firmw/#:~:text=Connect%20the%20programmer%20UNO%20to,Goto%20Tools%2C%20Burn%20Bootloader.

Al

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OK, I understand now. This is a known deficiency in Arduino IDE 2.x:

In order to support boards platforms installed under the sketchbook, it's first necessary to add some additional capabilities to Arduino CLI, which handles all non-GUI tasks for Arduino IDE 2.x. There is work in progress on that right now:

So I think this will be supported in one of the upcoming releases of Arduino IDE 2.x. But for now you'll need to use Arduino IDE 1.8.13 in order to use those boards.

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Ok, that's great.. Yea I kinda figure it's work in progress.
Thanks.

Al

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