My Arduino IDE don´t have some libraries

dieguitovalle · November 5, 2021, 1:32pm

Hello, greetings to all. I have an Arduino code in which I must include these libraries but they are not within the Arduino IDE that I have. How do I include them? They are: BLE, LittleFS, RainMaker and USB.
Also, when I add the ESP32 library, the code shows <dummy.h> what does it mean? Beforehand thank you very much.

in0 · November 5, 2021, 1:45pm

Hi @dieguitovalle. Which version of the Arduino IDE are you using?

Railroader · November 5, 2021, 1:46pm

Try the library manager. You find it behind one of the tabs. Tools? There You can download new libraries.

PaulRB · November 5, 2021, 1:47pm

If a library is not included in the IDE's library manager, you must download a zip file containing the library, often this will be available from GitHub. Once you have downloaded the zipped library, you can import it into the IDE using the "Add .ZIP Library" from the menus.

sterretje · November 5, 2021, 1:48pm

You can use the Library Manager. IDE menu Sketch -> Include Library -> Manage Libraries.

If the libraries that you need are not in there, you will have to hunt for them using your favorite search engine; most of them are on GitHub. Keywords could be Arduino or ESP plus the name of the library. Download the zip and IDE menu Sketch -> Include Library -> Include .ZIP Library.

I have a suspicion that you did not install things as it should be; I leave it to @in0 to determine that

in0 · November 5, 2021, 1:49pm

Slow down folks. @dieguitovalle is referring to the ESP32 boards platform's "platform bundled libraries":

Those libraries are installed via Boards Manager along with the ESP32 support. If you go looking for them in Library Manager you're going to have a bad day.

sterretje · November 5, 2021, 1:52pm

Would that mean that the boards package is not installed or installed incorrectly?

in0 · November 5, 2021, 1:56pm

From the Arduino Library Specification:
https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/library-specification/#source-code

When the user imports a library into their sketch (from the Arduino IDE's "Sketch > Include Library" menu or the Arduino Web Editor's "Include" button), the default behavior (configurable via the library.properties includes field) is for an #include statement to be added for all header (.h) files in the src/ directory

OK, so let's take a look at the library's library.properties metadata file:

https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/2.0.0/libraries/ESP32/library.properties

name=ESP32
version=2.0.0
author=Hristo Gochkov, Ivan Grokhtkov
maintainer=Hristo Gochkov <hristo@espressif.com>
sentence=ESP32 sketches examples
paragraph=
category=Other
url=
architectures=esp32

No includes field to be seen, so we can disregard that part of the specification. So we now know that when you select Sketch > Include Library > ESP32, the Arduino IDE will add #include directives for all the header files it finds in the library's source folder.

Let's see what is in that folder:
https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/tree/2.0.0/libraries/ESP32/src

Sure enough, there is only a file named dummy.h. So everything is working just as expected.

But why would a library named "ESP32" only have a single header file with this weird name? The answer is provided in the file itself:
https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/2.0.0/libraries/ESP32/src/dummy.h

// This file is here only to silence warnings from Arduino IDE
// Currently IDE doesn't support no-code libraries, like this collection of example sketches.

That's all there is to it. Just an empty file with an explanatory comment to avoid too much confusion, thus the name "dummy".

Even though this library is not much to look at, it serves an important purpose. That purpose is to serve as a container for some example sketches that demonstrate some of the features of the ESP32 boards platform itself. Packaging these in the form of a library causes the Arduino IDE to make them easily accessible to the user via the File > Examples > ESP32 menu. Check them out!

in0 · November 5, 2021, 2:06pm

It is possible. Some of the platform bundled libraries used to be integrated into the espressif/arduino-esp32 repository as submodules, and when people did the installation of the development version via Git, but didn't follow the complex instructions carefully, they would end up with the default behavior of only having empty folders where the submodules should have been. I don't remember if these specific libraries were ever submodules. They are not using any submodules at this time.

Another thing I notice is that some (but not all) of the listed libraries have different names in their metadata than the folder name. For example the "ESP32" library is actually defined as "ESP32 BLE Arduino".
https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/2.0.0/libraries/BLE/library.properties#L1

Ideally, the Arduino IDE always uses this "fancy" name when present, only falling back on the folder name in the case of the "1.0 format" libraries that don't have metadata. That is how the classic Arduino IDE works, but I notice that Arduino IDE 2.x uses the "fancy name" in the File > Examples menu, but the folder name in the Sketch > Include Library menu

rmetzner49 · December 3, 2021, 2:30pm

I'm at a similar frustration level. I've been trying to get the Rainmaker.ino example to compile. Though I've copied the example HERE, it bombs because the author failed to include dependencies. If I back up and grab them from "src", all of the cpp and h files have "#if ESP_IDF_VERSION_MAJOR >= 4 && CONFIG_ESP_RMAKER_TASK_STACK && CONFIG_IDF_TARGET_ESP32" at each file, so these are looking for the IDF, not Arduino. Yikes.

rmetzner49 · December 3, 2021, 2:35pm

I should add I've searched for Rainmaker in Library Manager but it doesn't find anything.

in0 · December 4, 2021, 1:45pm

I believe that will be fixed as a side effect of the fix for this bug:

github.com/arduino/arduino-cli

`lib list` and `lib examples` use incorrect library name

opened 12:15PM - 01 Dec 21 UTC

closed 08:17AM - 14 Feb 22 UTC

per1234

conclusion: duplicate topic: code type: imperfection

## Bug Report The name of an Arduino library is defined by the `name` propert…y of its [`library.properties` metadata file](https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/dev/library-specification/#libraryproperties-file-format). This is the sole unique identifier for the library, which is used in the `LIBRARY_NAME` argument of the `arduino-cli lib` commands. However, two of the commands instead use the library's folder name for the library name instead of its real name. ### Current behavior The following demonstration uses the "Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200" library, the name of which is defined here: https://github.com/arduino-libraries/SigFox/blob/1.0.4/library.properties#L1 ``` name=Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200 ``` This library was selected because the spaces in the name cause the "normalized" Library Manager installation folder name (`Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200`) to be different from the library name. ``` $ arduino-cli version arduino-cli.exe Version: nightly-20211201 Commit: 55ad9ec Date: 2021-12-01T01:29:21Z $ arduino-cli lib search "Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200" Updating index: library_index.json.gz downloaded ? 19988.48% 00m02s1s Updating index: library_index.json.sig downloaded No libraries matching your search. $ arduino-cli lib search "Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200" Updating index: library_index.json.gz downloaded ? 19988.48% 00m02s1s Updating index: library_index.json.sig downloaded Name: "Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200" Author: Arduino Maintainer: Arduino LLC Sentence: Helper library for MKRFox1200 board and ATAB8520E Sigfox module Paragraph: This library allows some high level operations on Sigfox module, to ease integration with existing projects Website: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/SigFox Category: Device Control Architecture: samd Types: Arduino Versions: [1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4] $ arduino-cli lib download "Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200" Error downloading Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200: Library 'Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200' not found $ arduino-cli lib download "Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200" Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200@1.0.4 downloaded $ arduino-cli lib install "Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200" Error installing Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200: Library 'Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200' not found $ arduino-cli lib install "Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200" Downloading Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200@1.0.4... Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200@1.0.4 already downloaded Installing Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200@1.0.4... Installed Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200@1.0.4 $ arduino-cli lib deps "Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200" Error resolving dependencies for Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200: Library 'Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200' not found $ arduino-cli lib deps "Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200" ✕ Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200 1.0.4 must be installed. $ arduino-cli lib list "Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200" Name Installed Available Location Description Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200 1.0.4 - LIBRARY_LOCATION_USER - $ arduino-cli lib list "Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200" No libraries installed. $ arduino-cli lib examples "Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200" Examples for library Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200 - C:\Users\per\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200\examples\EventTrigger - C:\Users\per\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200\examples\FirstConfiguration - C:\Users\per\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200\examples\SendBoolean - C:\Users\per\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200\examples\WeatherMonitor - C:\Users\per\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Arduino_SigFox_for_MKRFox1200\examples\WeatherMonitorStream $ arduino-cli lib examples "Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200" No libraries found. ``` Notice that in all cases except `lib list` and `lib examples`, the library name is "Arduino SigFox for MKRFox1200", while that correct name is not recognized when used in the library name argument of the final two commands. ### Expected behavior Libraries are always referred to by the correct name, consistently from one command to another. ### Environment - CLI version: nightly-20211201 Commit: 55ad9ec Date: 2021-12-01T01:29:21Z - OS and platform: Windows 10 ### Additional context There is one case where the library folder name determines the library name: the "1.0 format" or "legacy" libraries that do not have a `library.properties` metadata file: https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/dev/library-specification/#old-library-format-pre-15 --- The name field value is sometimes referred to as the "real name" or "fancy name".

in0 · December 4, 2021, 1:55pm

It compiles just fine for me.

One thing to note. This statement in the tutorial is outdated:

RainMaker support is not yet part of a stable esp32-arduino release. So we will use the master branch of the ESP32 Arduino repository. We will update here and elsewhere once this support is available in a stable release.

the support was added in the 2.0.0 release last August but the folks at Espressif never updated the tutorial as promised.

They are all provided by the installation of the ESP32 boards platform.

I'm going to ask you to post some additional information that might help us to identify the problem.

Please do this:

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rmetzner49 · December 4, 2021, 9:04pm

I don't think GIT put the files where they're supposed to be.`

Preformatted text` Arduino: 1.8.16 (Windows Store 1.8.51.0) (Windows 10), Board: "ESP32 Dev Module, Disabled, Default 4MB with spiffs (1.2MB APP/1.5MB SPIFFS), 240MHz (WiFi/BT), QIO, 80MHz, 4MB (32Mb), 921600, None"

In file included from R:$ketches\sketch_dec02b\RMakerParam.h:4:0,

             from R:\$ketches\sketch_dec02b\RMakerDevice.h:4,

             from R:\$ketches\sketch_dec02b\RMakerNode.h:4,

             from R:\$ketches\sketch_dec02b\RMaker.h:5,

             from R:\$ketches\sketch_dec02b\sketch_dec02b.ino:2:

RMakerType.h:4:29: fatal error: esp_rmaker_core.h: No such file or directory

compilation terminated.

exit status 1

esp_rmaker_core.h: No such file or directory

This report would have more information with
"Show verbose output during compilation"
option enabled in File -> Preferences.

rmetzner49 · December 4, 2021, 9:08pm

I'll probably need to determine what to move to "libraries" folder.
esp-rainmaker now resides at C:\users\Robert_M\esp-rainmaker. No wonder Arduino can't find them.

rmetzner49 · December 9, 2021, 2:41pm

This turned out to be not having the most recent version of ESP32 Boards installed. Who knew when I updated to version 2.0.1the missing components came along? This should be a "do this first" instruction in the tutorial.

in0 · December 9, 2021, 7:20pm

I'm glad to hear it is working now. Thanks for taking the time to post an update with your solution.

rmetzner49 · December 18, 2021, 2:18am

I'm pretty much up and running, made a Node, assigned some custom parameters, etc. I like how you can name Nodes and Parameters therein to be anything you like. In my H.A. scheme, a few of my ESP32s are in some inaccessible places and I've relied on Arduino OTA to upload fixes. Meaning I could convert my remote nodes to use Rainmaker. I ran into a caveat though, I wasn't able to have OTA coexist with Rainmaker. The ESP never accepts an invitation, so it makes me wonder if the Rainmaker partitioning scheme hasn't tossed out OTA? Do we know how to find the partitioning scheme to confirm? The other snag I'm seeing is, how do I remotely provision the node to generate the barcode? If the ESP is already on WiFi, is there a way to generate provisioning?

system · June 16, 2022, 2:19am

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