Unable to install a board from board manager

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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This is my first time working with arduino and I'm following someone else's guide and stumbling at the first step. While trying to install a board in the board manager I get this error.

Installing platform Seeeduino:Seeeduino_Stalker@1.0.2
Failed to install platform: 'Seeeduino:Seeeduino_Stalker:1.0.2'.
Error: 13 INTERNAL: Cannot install platform: installing platform Seeeduino:Seeeduino_Stalker@1.0.2: searching package root dir: reading package root dir: readdir C:\Users(user)\AppData\Local\Arduino15\tmp\package-1546614650: The system cannot find the path specified.

2

Do you have the following in your Prefs Additional Boards

(https://files.seeedstudio.com/arduino/package_seeeduino_boards_index.json)
3

Yeah, the guide also listed

(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Seeed-Studio/Seeed_Platform/master/package_legacy_seeeduino_boards_index.json)

I've tried each individually and both at once and I get the same error message each time.

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Very odd, I am not getting that. NOTE the 'temp' in the pathname, perhaps re-boot and see what happens.

5

Yeah, old faithful was one of the first things but I reset again and I get the same message.

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I don't see any Seeeduino_Stalker.
What were you doing just before you got that message?
What board were you trying to install, maybe do a screen grab of the board entry like the following

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I get the same error when using your URL. Get rid of that and use the official URL I posted earlier, here it is again
https://files.seeedstudio.com/arduino/package_seeeduino_boards_index.json

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Yeah, that URL seems to be the issue because others are installing but the guide I'm following says to install the seeeduino stalker v3.
Do you know if something else would work in its place seeing as I can't get stalker then?

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As I already said, if you use the right URL the error goes away.

10

But the URL you posted doesn't have seeduino stalker v3 which the guide says to use.

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I know nothing about it, is it a new board? Is it actually a board or a device that connects to a regular board?

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Um, reading is a key skill for a programmer. Here is what is on the datasheet for the Stalker. It has NO USB port, it is a device NOT a board. Pic 1 is what you set the Arduino IDE to and the second is the IDE fully set up.

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Here is the URL for Stalker, that is where I get the info re how to set the IDE.
https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/Seeeduino_Stalker_V3.1/
Mark post #12 as the solution.

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I was reviewing my earlier post and something doesn't make sense. Your best bet is to contact Seeed and get their input. Don't take this as gospel, but everything I looked at is old IDE1 stuff so maybe they dropped support. Only Seeed can tell you for sure.

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I used the below URL for the additional boards manager URLs

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Seeed-Studio/Seeed_Platform/master/package_legacy_seeeduino_boards_index.json

And encountered the Error 13 as well.

Next I used IDE 1.8.19 to try to install the board package (same URL) and that worked flawlessly.

I suggest that you install IDE 1.8.19 (next to IDE 2.x); easiest will be to download the ZIP version and extract it. Next run it, add the url https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Seeed-Studio/Seeed_Platform/master/package_legacy_seeeduino_boards_index.json under file → preferences, go to the boards manager, search for Stalker and install it.

Once installed the Stalker board will be available in both IDE 1.8.19 and IDE 2.x. You can delete IDE 1.8.19 if so desired; I would keep it installed in case you ever have to upgrade the Stalker board package.

If you're not interested in upgrading, you can delete the extracted 1.8.19 directory and remove the URL from file →preferences in IDE 2.x so you don't get upgrade notifications.

You can report the issue at techsupport@seeed.cc and see what comes out.

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Did you install board version 1.0.2 ?

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Thank you, this worked. I'm very new to all this so I appreciate the help and explaining.

18

Pleasure.

I unfortunately have no idea why the error happens.

Are you going to report the issue to Seeed?

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In IDE 2.3.4 I tried to install both 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 with the same result (error 13). In IDE 1.8.19 I only tried 1.0.2 (which was successful).

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I'm writing up an email now and then I'll put a comment on the guide I'm following for others that might come across this one in the future.