Updating Nightly Builds

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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Hi All

Has anyone found a nifty way of getting the Nightly Builds to update on a Mac without a manual download and install? I had vaguely hoped that after installing the Nightly Build I could go to Help/CheckforUpdates and (because it was a nightly build) it would go get the latest nightly build but sadly that was not to be!

cheers, Giles

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Hi @farmer_giles. By default, Arduino IDE only offers updates when there is a newer stable release available. However, there is an advanced setting that can be changed to make it instead offer updates for newer nightly builds:

  1. Press the Ctrl+Shift+P keyboard shortcut (Command+Shift+P for macOS users) to open the "Command Palette".
    A menu will appear on the editor toolbar:
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  2. Select the "Preferences: Open Settings (UI)" command from the menu.
    ⓘ You can scroll down through the list of commands to find it or type the name in the field.
    A "Preferences" tab will open in the Arduino IDE main panel.
  3. Type arduino.ide.updateChannel in the "Search Settings" field of the "Preferences" tab.
  4. Select "nightly" from the menu under the "Arduino › Ide: Update Channel" setting.
  5. Close the Preferences tab by clicking its X icon.
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Thanks Per!

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You are welcome. I'm glad if I was able to be of assistance.

Regards,
Per

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