Switch to PlatformIO: an open source ecosystem for IoT development

[ivankravets]

Hey friends,

I'm an author of PlatformIO. What do you think about replacing build logic which is based on Arduino Application by @PlatformIO code builder and give users ability to use more then 150+ different embedded boards and 10+ development platforms?

Existing solution http://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/ide/sublimetext.html

[gepd]

Interesting solution ivankravets, I'll read about it, maybe it can help to solve some of the problem this plugin have.

[ivankravets]

Thanks @gepd. I'm glad to help you with the PlatformIO API (JSON response):

# available boards
platformio boards --json-output

# available platforms
platformio platforms search --json-output

# installed platforms
platformio platforms list --json-output

# available serial ports list
platformio serialports list --json-output

[gepd]

Hi @ivankravets I've been looking in your application, implementing it into this plugin would be a really big improvement.

I ran the examples in the windows console, and the sublime text. As I never implemented a ST plugin from the beginning, maybe you can help me with something, I can't run the platformio init --ide sublimetext --board %TYPE% command

I've already implemented a function to create the ini file, but it getting hard to run this without the build system, if you have some info, or any site with this info I'll appreciate.

[gepd]

never mind, I already figured out.

[ivankravets]

Hi @gepd,

Don't hesitate contact me for any questions :+1:

[gepd]

Thanks, I'll need for sure.

[gepd]

@ivankravets There is way to do platformio init -d directory auto accepting the creation of the folders and ini file? I'm using subprocess.Popen to run this command and it can't finish because I don't know how to answer yes to the prompt Do you want to continue? [y/N]:

[ivankravets]

@gepd sure! Please take a look on the current template https://github.com/platformio/platformio/blob/develop/platformio/ide/tpls/sublimetext/platformio.sublime-project.tpl

Please run all commands in this format

platformio -f -c sublimetext CMD

where CMD could be init, run, etc.

See docs for -f/--force http://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/userguide/index.html

[ivankravets]

Also, I've removed "auto-uploading" from init command. See https://github.com/platformio/platformio/commit/5dc1396f05ba03e0b697e7e606427bf2f6ece4c7

Before PlatformIO <2.4.2 you can use platformio -f -c sublimetext init --disable_auto_uploading -d directory and from >=2.4.2 (has not been released yet) please use platformio -f -c sublimetext init -d directory

I hope that you will propose users 3 commands:

1. Build platformio -f -c sublimetext run -d directory
2. Upload platformio -f -c sublimetext run -t upload -d directory
3. Clean platformio -f -c sublimetext run -t clean -d directory

Don't forget that -d/--project-dir isn't required. You can change CWD to project directory and run command from it.

[gepd]

Thanks for that update. I was just looking for this options. Now look very simple to continue with the implementation.

I'm using the explicit way -d directorybecause of the way the stino plugin was developed.

Your system will bring a lot of improvement to this plugin.

[ivankravets]

How I can try this snapshot? I would like to see how does it work. Thanks!

[gepd]

I'll upload a first version ASAP. I'll let you now. I'll like to talk you about the new features I'm thinking to add with the help of your platform, including the library manager, I think will be very good to not depend of the Arduino IDE at all.

[ivankravets]

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments.

[gepd]

I started to do some test with the build process and I received this error

C:\Users\user\Desktop\blink_example>platformio run
[12/04/15 18:21:14] Processing uno (platform: atmelavr, targets: upload, framewo
rk: arduino, board: uno)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
avr-gcc -o .pioenvs\uno\firmware.elf -Os -mmcu=atmega328p -Wl,--gc-sections,--re
lax -L.pioenvs\uno -Wl,--start-group -lm .pioenvs\uno\libFrameworkArduinoVariant
.a .pioenvs\uno\libFrameworkArduino.a -Wl,--end-group
.pioenvs\uno\libFrameworkArduino.a(main.o): In function `main':
C:\Users\user\Desktop\blink_example/.pioenvs\uno\FrameworkArduino/main.cpp:37:
undefined reference to `setup'
C:\Users\user\Desktop\blink_example/.pioenvs\uno\FrameworkArduino/main.cpp:47:
undefined reference to `loop'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
scons: *** [.pioenvs\uno\firmware.elf] Error 1
========================= [ ERROR ] Took 1.58 seconds =========================

This is from the windows console, some days ago when I tested it with the same example (took from the platformio web) by the console I had not problem.

Do you know what could it be?

[ivankravets]

See compiler errors undefined reference to setup... Do you have any files in src directory? Looks like your project is empty.

[gepd]

you're right, I thought when you initialize the project, it was automatically copied, my bad.

[gepd]

This is a fast snapshot https://github.com/gepd/Stino/archive/StinoIO.zip

At this moment I only tested with Arduino UNO, I still have a lot of changef to do in the code

[gepd]

I forgot to mention, at this moment, the upload option is the only available.

[ivankravets]

The further development is moved to https://github.com/gepd/Deviot