Hi

This area is being expanded at the moment but for upload, did you try using a jtag ice option from tools>visual micro>programmers?

No I mean we are working on an option to allow debug build without upload. Then you can upload using device programming and still debug using software serial.

I expect you already have configured the debug for software serial? In which case we just need to upload.

What options do you have on the "tools>visual micro>programmers menu" and what board do you have selected?

Hmm that's strange. I am going to assume you are on a relatively recent version of visual micro from within the last few months.

In this case there should be a load of additional atmel options on the programmers menu.

Please try a few things ...

1) Switch to a different board such as uno then back to nano again. Do more menu items appear in the programmers list

2) If no then please confirm which version of the arduino ide you are using? and if you are using the nano supplied with the ide or with your own custom hardware defs from somewhere else?

Thanks

Hello,

I'm trying to upload my sketch selecting JTAG ICE3 Programmer, but I get this error:

Binary sketch size: 22.274 bytes (used 73% of a 30.720 byte maximum) (0,79 secs)
Minimum Memory Usage: 1470 bytes (72% of a 2048 byte maximum)
Uploading to I/O board using 'Atmel Studio JTAG ICE3 (ISP)'
Firmware check OK

Error during upload using programmer
[ERROR] JSON error: Failed to parse response to  Modules:add: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xfa in position 12: invalid start byte

The uploader returned an error 

Do you know why this could be?

Verbose doesn't give me further info about the problem, and I don't have enough knowledge to modify those params, althoug I'll keep on trying to solve it learning about it.

Thank's a lot for your help!

Do you have an approximate ETA of that new version you're working on? If this is gonna be too long, could I betatest it with my proto?

Kind regards.

Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Jul 10^th, 2015 at 11:48am:


Sorry if I misunderstood, I thought you were working to release a new version with this feature.

Thank's a lot for your help!! I'll try it!

I'm currently testing Sp2, it allows me to upload the .elf using jtagice3 and when I close it starts debugging as you mentioned. The problem is that I'm receiving strange characters (see attached image), I've checked that I'm using the right pins and the right speed. The prototype I'm trying to debug has 2 328p connected by software serial (I'm using softEasyTransfer library for this), runnning at same speed I try to debug but different pins, could this be the problem? If I want to debuf one of them would I have to avoid using software serial between micros??

Thank's a lot in advance.

Kind regards.