IDE calls avrdude with wrong programmer/port

random0815 · May 17, 2021, 4:48pm

Hi,

I’m trying to use Arduino 1.8.15 with an Arduino Mega (ATmega2560) and an ISP-Programmer on Linux.

Programmer works fine with standalone avrdude -P /dev/ttyACM0 -p m2560 -c avrisp2, so I set Tools→Programmer and Tools→Port accordingly. I verified that values were written correctly to ~/.arduino15/preferences.txt.

Unfortunately, when I hit ›Sketch→Upload Using Programmer‹ or ›Tools→Burn Bootloader‹ Arduino keeps to call avrdude with -Pusb and -cstk500v2 – which fails unsurprisingly.

What might I have missed?

westfw · May 17, 2021, 11:59pm

Apparently "AVRISP Mk2" is a genuine Atmel Programmer that can only be talked to via USB port. AVRISP2 seem to mostly be clone programmers that are stk500v2 serial programmers plus a USB/Serial converter chip.

github.com

facchinm/avrdude/blob/master/stk500v2.c#L28


      
          * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
          * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
          */
          
          
/* $Id$ */
          /* Based on Id: stk500.c,v 1.46 2004/12/22 01:52:45 bdean Exp */
          
          
/*
          * avrdude interface for Atmel STK500V2 programmer
          *
          * As the AVRISP mkII device is basically an STK500v2 one that can
          * only talk across USB, and that misses any kind of framing protocol,
          * this is handled here as well.
          *
          * Note: most commands use the "universal command" feature of the
          * programmer in a "pass through" mode, exceptions are "program
          * enable", "paged read", and "paged write".
          *
          */
          
          
#include "ac_cfg.h"

See if setting the programmer type to "Atmel STK500 board" works.

pi_okl · May 18, 2021, 12:06am

Use this code in your Linux terminal. I use it and it works great. I think you might have to reset your computer though but that only takes a minute.
sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

random0815 · August 10, 2021, 5:20pm

Sorry for that late reply, but feedback might be helpful for someone with the same problem

That did work, thank you

You should read more carefully: programming manually via avrdude would not have worked if permissions were not set correctly in the first place – so no need to change them here. It wouldn’t have worked anyway: ttyACMx does not belong to group 'dialout' on my system, but to group 'uucp'

system · December 8, 2021, 5:21pm

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