Hi Paddy,

Good to hear that thanks.

Visual Micro uses a different system to the Atmel UI (for Arduino compatibility reasons) so the two are unconnected in this respect.

In Visual Micro you need to use Arduino 1.5 as the backend Ide (1.5.x) then the additional programmers should appear.

The ICE is new, the AVR entry was created and tested by a user. The SAM entry has not yet been tested but should appear on the menu. I don't expect any problems for the SAM entry, but any problems and I can tell you what to tweak then we can re-publish in the next release.

I hope this makes sense.

Any problems please confirm your visual micro version from tools>options>visual micro>version>version

Thanks

yes it should be okay

Thanks for the image. 

You need to select 1.5.x then set the path. Visual Micro allows multiple Arduino Ide's to be active at the same time so you set a path for each.

So for one ide, you can either clear the path from 1.0.x and then select 1.5.x and set a path or install 1.5 into a different folder using the zip on the arduino web site and configure both paths in Visual Micro. For each project you will then be able to choose between 1.0.x and 1.5.x.

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You need to open or create a sketch project. This is because the programmers list changes based upon the selected architecture which is mainly stored with each project. Currently the list is only refreshed if a project is open.

EDIT: The boards list will be empty if you have 1.5 installed in a location you have configured to be 1.0.x in visual Micro. Just open the ide config dialog and clear the 1.0.x path then select 1.5.x and set the path.

Great, thanks for the update

Hi Paddy,

Sorry the Arduino and the programmers do not support serial but if you have an issue using the serial port you can use the SoftwareSerial debugger option with 1 digital pin for trace and 1 if break/pause is required.

I realize that you might not want the additional overhead of anything other than the ICE but thought this info might be useful just in case.

Oh I see that sounds cool. 

With a 2560 you have many serial ports? You can set the RemotePort to Serial1 and use that for debug instead of the main serial or if you have used all the serial ports/pins then RemoteTransport=SoftwareSerial will work very well with a tx and optional rx pin. 

All you need is an FTDI cable or adapter and a couple of wires.

Here is the doc of how to configure.

http://www.visualmicro.com/page/User-Guide.aspx?doc=Debugging-With-Different-Por...