Hi there,

I' m working on a project where we first used Arduino (Mini Ultra 8MHz) but had to switch to Libelium Waspmote. Now we miss the comfort of the Visual Studio plugin and are looking for some way to use the plugin instead of the Waspmote Pro IDE. So our question is what would be neccessary to make that working?

Greets, Michael

Hi Tim,

the "External Editor" option is available and it works too but I would like to take the full advantage of your plugin. 

I just compared the contents of Arduino IDE 1.0.4 and Waspmote Pro IDE v.03 - there isn't much difference. So I tried to tell the plugin that the location of "Arduino 1.0.x" is the Waspmote IDE. That looked quite fin in the first place (could select waspmote-api as board) but I'm not able to compile (can't find RTC, USB and stuff).

After a restart of VS I'm not able to open a project - there is just the message "Visual Micro: Configuration - Cygwin:".
Can you give me any hint, where to start investigation?

Greets, Michael

Yes, if I change the path back to the Arduino IDE path everything works without any problems.

In Waspmote Pro IDE I have a boards.txt unter ide/hardware/waspmote/. I'm quite sure that your software found the boards.txt correctly because when I changed the path I could select "waspmote-api" from the drop-down menu. Be be sure I copied the boards.txt to ide/hardware/ but this makes no changes. 

If  I try to compile the sketch (without restarting VS) I get the following:

Compiling 'myProject' for 'waspmote-api'
myProject.pde : No such file or directory
myProject.pde : : In function 'void setup()':
myProject.pde : 'USB' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'RTC' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : : In function 'void loop()':
myProject.pde : 'USB' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'RTC' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'RTC_ABSOLUTE' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'RTC_ALM1_MODE4' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'PWR' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'ALL_OFF' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : : In function 'boolean writeData()':
myProject.pde : 'SD' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'RTC' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'sprintf' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'USB' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'USB' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'USB' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'USB' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'USB' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'USB' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'PWR' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : : In function 'boolean sendData()':
myProject.pde : 'USB' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'F' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'DEC' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'DEC' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'DEC' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'F' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'F' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : : In function 'char* getIsoDate()':
myProject.pde : 'RTC' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'sprintf' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'USB' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : : In function 'char* getIsoTime()':
myProject.pde : 'RTC' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'sprintf' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'USB' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : : In function 'void readRTC()':
myProject.pde : 'RTC' was not declared in this scope
myProject.pde : 'RTC_DATE_ADDRESS_2' was not declared in this scope
Error compiling 

I assume that the plugin tries to use Arduino.h and not Waspmote.h.

Hi Tim,

I tried to compile using the fake Arduino.h - here is the result:

Compiling 'myProject' for 'waspmote-api'
Binary sketch size: 60628 bytes (49% of a 122880 byte maximum) (15,88 secs)
Uploading to I/O board using 'COM19'
avrdude: Yikes!  Invalid device signature.
         Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
         this check.
/* here we have about 20k lines of warnings
 * about 50% is: "hidusagestr.h : Warning: only initialized variables can be placed into program memory area"
 */
Binary sketch size: 60628 bytes (49% of a 122880 byte maximum) (1094,13 secs)
Uploading to I/O board using 'COM19'
avrdude: Yikes!  Invalid device signature.
         Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
         this check. 

Can you tell me where to set the device signature?

Greets, Michael

BTW: recognition of "USB", "RTC" and so on works fine now...

had to split it up because of 4000 character limit:

           ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
           lock           0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  9000  9000 0x00 0x00
                                  Block Poll               Page                       Polled
           Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW  MaxW   ReadBack
           ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
           calibration    0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
                                  Block Poll               Page                       Polled
           Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW  MaxW   ReadBack
           ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
           signature      0     0     0    0 no          3    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00

         Programmer Type : STK500
         Description     : Atmel STK500 Version 1.x firmware
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [80]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [02]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [81]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [01]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [82]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [0f]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [98]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [03]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
         Hardware Version: 2
         Firmware Version: 1.15
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [84]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [00]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [85]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [00]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [86]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [00]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [87]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [00]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [89]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [00]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
         Vtarget         : 0.0 V
         Varef           : 0.0 V
         Oscillator      : Off
         SCK period      : 0.1 us

avrdude: Send: A [41] . [81]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [01]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: A [41] . [82]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [0f]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: B [42] . [00] . [00] . [00] . [01] . [01] . [01] . [01] . [03] . [00] . [00] . [00] . [00] . [01] . [00] . [10] . [00] . [00] . [02] . [00] . [00]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: E [45] . [05] . [08] . [d7] . [a0] . [00]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: P [50]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | avrdude: Send: V [56] 0 [30] . [00] . [00] . [00]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [00]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
avrdude: Send: V [56] 0 [30] . [00] . [01] . [00]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [00]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
################avrdude: Send: V [56] 0 [30] . [00] . [02] . [00]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [00]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]
################################## | 100% 0.05s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x000000
avrdude: Yikes!  Invalid device signature.
         Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
         this check.

avrdude: Send: Q [51]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [14]
avrdude: Recv: . [10]

avrdude done.  Thank you. 

I could figure out the VS start problem (using ProcessMonitor):

On startup the plugin is looking for arduino.exe which in my case does not exist. As a workaround I made a copy of waspmote.exe and named it arduino.exe. Restart VS works now without any problems (except the "-F upload issue).

Greets, Michael

I tried the following:

To boards.txt in the Waspmote IDE directory I added:

tools.avrdude.upload.params.verbose=-v -v -v -v
tools.avrdude.upload.params.quiet=-q -q
tools.avrdude.upload.pattern="{cmd.path}" "-C{config.path}" {upload.verbose} -F -p{build.mcu} -c{upload.protocol} -P{serial.port} -b{upload.speed} -D "-Uflash:w:{build.path}/{build.project_name}.hex:i" 

but the plugin doesn't listen to that. Do I have to add all the parameters from platform.txt?

Hi Tim,

it's finally working! I can now compile and upload to Waspmote from Visual Studio. For documentation reasons I just installed a fresh (untouched) version of Waspmote Pro IDE and wrote down all changes I made:

Versions:
- Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 Version 10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel
or Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 Version 11.0.60.315.01 Update 2
or Atmel Studio 6.1.2674 Service Pack 1
- Libelium Waspmote Pro IDE Version 03 // API Version 003
- Visual Micro Arduino Ide for Visual Studio and Atmel Studio 1.1305.09

Changes:
- Made a copy of {waspmote_ide}\waspmote.exe in the same directory and named it arduino.exe
- Created Arduino.h in {waspmote_ide}\hardware\waspmote\cores\waspmote-api\ with the following content:

 #include "Waspmote.h" 

- Modified "wasp1.upload.protocol=stk500" to "wasp1.upload.protocol=stk500v1" in {waspmote_ide}\hardware\waspmote\boards.txt 
- Added the following lines to {waspmote_ide}\hardware\waspmote\boards.txt:

wasp1.upload.tool=avrdude
wasp1.tools.avrdude.upload.pattern="{cmd.path}" "-C{config.path}" {upload.verbose} -F -p{build.mcu} -c{upload.protocol} -P{serial.port} -b{upload.speed} -D -V "-Uflash:w:{build.path}/{build.project_name}.hex:i" 

These changes make it possible to use "Waspmote Pro IDE" work with "Visual Micro Arduino Ide for Visual Studio and Atmel Studio" but some issues are remaining:

- after a successful upload the plugin will output the message: "Wrong microcontroller found.  Did you select the right board from the Tools > Board menu?"
- even when using "-v -v -v -v " no avrdude output will show up

Greets, Michael

Hi, 

Some info.

The Visual Micro version is shown in "Tools>Options>Visual Mcro>Version"

The wrong micro-controller found error is raised if avrdude returns text that contains the words "Expected signature". This is how the arduino ide works so we just copied the code. It seems a bit generic.

Did you switch on Tools>Options>Visual Micro>Compiler>Verbose. This should show the upload command which you can then copy and run from a windows cmd window. You should then be able to see more clearly what is being returned by avrdude

If we can iron this last point out maybe we should include waspmote as an option in Visual Micro. In the latest beta versions on codeplex you will see that Arduino 1.0, Arduino 1.5 and the Energia ide are supported out of the box. We can add waspmote to the list making it easier for other users to setup. All that would be required would be an ide location, the changes you describe below would be automatically handled.

Thanks,

What is the upload output when you run it via cmd window ?