Hey guys, anybody know a simple easy way to upload a compiled .hex file to an Arduino board without using the IDE? Thanks so much, Rob :slight_smile:

Plug in your Arduino Select your Arduino board from the Arduino IDE Tools > Board menu Select your Arduino board's port from the Tools > Port menu Select File > Preferences from the Arduino IDE menus. Check the box next to "Show verbose output during: [] upload". Click the OK button. Select Sketch >…

Thanks for the great advice :slight_smile: Presumably if I send somebody the .hex file and they want to upload it, they first need to download AVRDude? Will this method still work if I tell them to put the .hex file in a certain location and send them the command line? Thanks so much, Rob

robertworeilly: they first need to download AVRDude? That's correct. You can download it here: Index of /releases/avrdude/ robertworeilly: Will this method still work if I tell them to put the .hex file in a certain location and send them the command line? You will need to know the location…

Avrdude is free tool, it is part of Arduino SW but it can be downloaded separately. Arduino IDE is just calling the command line. It will work the same way directly from the command line, of course correct paths to the files must be passed.

Incidentally, in the download are also "avrdude.exe", "avrdude.conf" and "libusb0.dll", so it works without needing to include anything apart from the *.hex file. Edit: I just gave it a spin with an UNO and it works fine. Edit2: And a Mega2560. No problems. :slight_smile:

Thanks for the good description! I compiled the Blink Sketch, adjusted the output of the IDE for my firmware and copied the firmware to the Temp directory where the binary of Blink is located. All I had to do was add the quotes needed under Windows and the command to upload to the display now looks …

Good info in this thread. Here I am trying it about 15 months later. After adjusting the quotes for the path names I was able to get to the point where the error was "access denied". No doubt due to trying to work within the Program Files folder. Opening the Command Window as administrator didn't he…

The simplest way to upload a compiled .hex file without the IDE

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Plese try it , http://barth.pl/BarthLoader.rar it is my small app for bossac.exe and avrdude

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