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Cannot load an Adafruit Pro Trinket
Feb 1st, 2016 at 9:10pm
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I cannot get my sketch loaded to an Adafruit Pro Trinket.  After I get a successful compilation I get the error:

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Uploading to I/O board using 'COM8'
The uploader returned an error
avrdude: error at /avrdude.conf:320: programmer type must be written as "id_type"


Using VS 2013 Professional and VM Pro (latest update) on Windows 8.1

With no hardware changes, the exact same sketch loads using the Arduino 1.6.5 IDE.

WinAVR is installed and I can run AVRDUDE manually.

With no hardware changes, if I change the board type to an Arduino Uno it loads.

I am using an Adafruit FTDI Friend and it is on COM8 and works (as per the previous two tests).

I assume something is not configured properly but can not figure out what and where.

Any suggestions?
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Re: Cannot load an Adafruit Pro Trinket
Reply #1 - Feb 1st, 2016 at 10:37pm
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Hi,

My understanding with the Trinket is that is doesn't have Serial/Usb upload. 

Instead, it uses a hardware programmer.

To upload to this board using the Arduino Ide you must have to select a programmer? Did you select one? (or maybe the Ide just so happened to already have the correct programmer selected)

Once you establish which programmer/upload method you are using, you can select the same on the "Visual Micro" menu in Visual Studio. + The command below the selected programmer says "Always use programmer for upload" which should also be selected.

I will look into the Trinket definitions to see how a message can more easily be displayed on screen when users have not selected/enabled a programmer. It seems like this is missing from Visual Micro.

Does this all make sense to you? Sorry if I have missed the point.

  
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Re: Cannot load an Adafruit Pro Trinket
Reply #2 - Feb 2nd, 2016 at 1:23am
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First of all, be careful.  There is a Trinket and a Pro Trinket and they have different processors and loading procedures!

I checked in the Arduino IDE to check the loader it uses and it is USBTinyISP.  So I selected this as the loader in VM and get almost the same error:

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Uploading to I/O board using 'USBtinyISP'
The uploader returned an error
avrdude: error at /avrdude.conf:320: programmer type must be written as "id_type"


I assume VM is creating a call to the specified boot loader and for some reason something is going wrong.  So I checked the command line created by the Arduino IDE:

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D:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/avrdude -CD:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf -v -patmega328p -carduino -PCOM8 -b115200 -D .cpp.hex:i


You can see that it is using a different path for the avrdude.conf than the Arduino IDE is using.  So I copied that conf file to where VM is looking and get the error from VM:

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Uploading to I/O board using 'USBtinyISP'
The uploader returned an error
avrdude: Error: Could not find USBtiny device (0x1781/0xc9f)


So there is something more than just the wrong conf file going wrong.

Is it possible to find the loader command line that VM is using and to adjust it?

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Re: Cannot load an Adafruit Pro Trinket
Reply #3 - Feb 2nd, 2016 at 1:33am
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In rummaging around more in the forum I found the following related issue:
http://www.visualmicro.com/forums/YaBB.pl?board=ARDUINO_VS15/40

Not quite the same, but again it is about knowing the avrdude command line used.

I don't think the solution there would fix mine, and even if it did it would be a lot easier if VM had the ability to see what is being called.
  
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Re: Cannot load an Adafruit Pro Trinket
Reply #4 - Feb 2nd, 2016 at 11:26pm
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Hi,

I am not entirely clear about what verbose outputs you are getting from vm or the arduino ide.

I have just made some tests and as long as I have "Visual Micro>Always use programmer for upload" ticked then I get the same output as the arduino ide same as you report previously "Uploading to I/O board using 'USBtinyISP'"

So I think that either you don't have the programmer setting enabled or we need to see what version of visual micro you are using. What does it say in tools>options>visual micro>version>version

Thanks

  
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Reply #5 - Feb 3rd, 2016 at 12:11am
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The VM version is 1.1601.30.  I just updated to Pro and installed the latest version a couple of days ago.

I checked and the use loader is checked and the selected loaded is usbtiny.isp.

The quoted text:  The first was my original error from VM.  The second is the command to avrdude that the Arduino IDE 1.6.5 uses for loading.  It uses a different version of the avrdude.conf file.  The third quote is the error from VM when I copied the conf file used by the Arduino IDE to the location being used by VM.

Hope this helps clarify

  
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Re: Cannot load an Adafruit Pro Trinket
Reply #6 - Feb 3rd, 2016 at 12:17am
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Hi,

Please switch on "Visual Micro>Verbose Messages" and try to upload. Then post or email the full output to info[at]visualmicro.com

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Re: Cannot load an Adafruit Pro Trinket
Reply #7 - Feb 3rd, 2016 at 12:59am
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With verbose on and the conf file back to the original, I get:

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Uploading to I/O board using 'USBtinyISP'
Uploader started for board Pro Trinket 5V/16MHz (FTDI)
Uploader will use programmer name: usbtinyisp
D:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avrdude 2.0/avrdude.conf" -v -patmega328p -cusbtiny adafruit_avr_protrinket5ftdi/Test.ino.hex:i"
Error during upload using programmer
Upload failed

Upload failed
avrdude: Version 6.0.1, compiled on Apr 15 2015 at 19:59:58
The uploader returned an error
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch
         System wide configuration file is 0/avrdude.conf"
avrdude: error at /avrdude.conf:320: programmer type must be written as "id_type"
  
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Re: Cannot load an Adafruit Pro Trinket
Reply #8 - Feb 3rd, 2016 at 7:42pm
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Thanks for the info. 

I am having problems replicating the issue. Please switch on "tools>options>visual micro>compiler>show build properties". This will provide additional detail in the verbose build output.

Then try the build and upload. 

Please attach or email the full output in a txt file.

Thanks
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Re: Cannot load an Adafruit Pro Trinket
Reply #9 - Feb 7th, 2016 at 1:38am
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There has been some changed in the latest release 1602.6 that are related to upload. If you have time can you please try the version.

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