Hello, folks. I've got a question that's probably an easy answer but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong...
I'm trying to get an Adafruit Trinket working with v. 1.6 of the Arduino IDE (Java 7 version) on my Mac (running 10.9.5). Most of the documentation I can find says to drop the supplemental boards.txt file in ~/Documents/Arduino/hardware, restart the IDE and the board should appear in Tools->Boards. A few pages I've found say that should be ~/Documents/Arduino/hardware/arduino. Neither seems to work though.
I've explored the limits of my Google-fu and can't find an obvious fix. The only way I can get the boards to show up is to append the new boards.txt to the one in: /Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/arduino/avr. What am I missing?
In 1.6.0 I don't see any of the boards from my local Documents/Arduino/hardware/ folder but I do see entries from:
file:///Applications/Arduino%201.6.0.app/Contents/Java/hardware/arduino/avr/boards.txt
file:///Applications/Arduino%201.6.0.app/Contents/Java/hardware/arduino/sam/boards.txt
Maybe you have to add another layer?
I tried moving a few of the old folders down a layer into /arduino/ and re-starting the IDE:
file:///Users/john/Documents/Arduino/hardware/arduino/attiny/boards.txt
file:///Users/john/Documents/Arduino/hardware/arduino/breadboard/boards.txt
file:///Users/john/Documents/Arduino/hardware/arduino/DiecimilaOptiboot/boards.txt
The good news is now I can see those boards.
The bad news is that now I can't see any of the official boards.
BINGO! Naming the new folder level something OTHER than 'arduino' worked. I changed the folder name from 'arduino' to 'local' and after re-starting the IDE I can see both official and third-party boards!
Hi does any one know how to place trinket into the new ide in the windows version, ive added the attiny support boards text files etc to hardware but i dont know how to add trinket boards text,i tryed but avrdude moaned, i just need the new boards text for trinket the old one doesnt work thanks
