Alternative to ArduinoIDE

[hek]

Old thread, but something might still apply:
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1369/best-ide-to-use-for-mysensors-projects

[Daniel Oliveira]

Hello @hek, @tekka, @Anticimex and @Yveaux ,

I'm sorry to bothering you, but I would appreciate a feedback from you :)

I have professional experience as software tester/developer but from a completely different world, nevertheless I would like to go back to my roots (electronics) and start participating more actively in this great community.

So I would like to have your feedback on your development environment, software used etc. Something that you can recommend? I honestly would love an IDE like eclipse.

Do you have experience with anything other than ArduinoIDE like THIS plugin for Visual Studio and Atmel Studio, THISeclipse plugin, the recent PlatformIO or other?

Thank you all in advance,

[Anticimex]

@Daniel-Oliveira I use the stino plugin for sublime text. It basically abstracts the arduino IDE so you still get the piss poor build system but then, you have to use it if you want to easily use libraries and program the device I suppose. But at least all operations are done from within sublime text and the arduino IDE just need to be installed, not running. But it can be a but tricky to configure the plugin properly and it lags somewhat behind new Arduino IDE releases.

[Daniel Oliveira]

@hek said:

Old thread, but something might still apply:
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1369/best-ide-to-use-for-mysensors-projects

Thanks @hek,

I was writing at same time you replied, I'll take a look.

[Yveaux]

@Daniel-Oliveira I want to take another look at the ARduino Makefile https://github.com/sudar/Arduino-Makefile
Seems promising, especially since I'm now able to run a Linux subsystem on Windows since the Windows 10 Anniversary Update; saves me the trouble of installing cygwin etc.

[ericvdb]

There is also Visual Micro for Visual Studio

[scalz]

I'm still using arduino ide, or sublimetext on my side too...it's a long time i would like to try visualmicro so i could use VS but never find the time to try.
problem is sometimes when you change your chain, things can goes well or you need to dig in. so i was lazy. But i agree, arduino ide is ...too simple :) something with brackets (I don't know if there is a plugin like this btw) or sublimetext, is simple but a lot better!

And more sense to use a nice ide, if you want to use other mcu with mysensors..on my side I prefer local solution, not a big fan of cloud dev..
@ericvdb do you use VisualMicro ? does it work well, not so much things to change to make libs working, mysensors for instance? it's very tempting..

[tekka]

@scalz @Daniel-Oliveira I'm using VS with VisualMicro - works smoothly with lots of nice features...

[scalz]

@tekka rooooooh, that's not fair :) thx for info :thumbsup: so now I have no excuse to not try. great

[Daniel Oliveira]

Thanks to all of you for your feedback,

I'll give it a try to Visual Micro, I?m also curious about PlatformIO with eclipse as editor.
I'll keep ou posted on the results for future reference.

Regards

[drock1985]

This is a good thread; been recently contemplating changing IDE's myself.

Visual Studio seems to be the most complete - I think I will give this one a try. Anyone have any tips for how to use this coming from the Arduino IDE (with no previous programming experience?)

Thanks,

[Daniel Oliveira]

@drock1985 said:

This is a good thread; been recently contemplating changing IDE's myself.

Visual Studio seems to be the most complete - I think I will give this one a try. Anyone have any tips for how to use this coming from the Arduino IDE (with no previous programming experience?)

Thanks,

Hi,

Being using it from some hours and indeed it seems to be a great alternative, it even has a dark skin :D
You can use it to program in a more pure C++ way (my goal here), but it also support projects with .ino files so you can use your existing ArduinoIDE projects.

To get used to Visual Studio/Micro I'm following their User guide, you can find it HERE

Feel free to continue sharing your experiences

[stedew]

@Daniel-Oliveira
Hello Daniel for what it's worth: Jantje posted a Fix in Github:
the selection of subfolders included to the path is not consistent with the Arduino IDE

Just have to test it further
Regards,
Stefan

[tbowmo]

I have plans for trying to get platform.io up and running, specially because I use ATOM editor for most file editing (even in mysensors core).

I have some shell scripts that enables me to build sketches etc. from cli, all are based on arduino in cli mode though, but makes it easy for me to verify errors / warnings in a sketch when I hack on core files (which you can't edit through arduino anyways)

[Stuart Middleton]

As a professional developer who lives in Visual Studio and XCode, I prefer the VS plugin. I'm not saying it's any good, and in fact it crashes now and then, but you get all of the power of VS behind you.

[dpressle]

@Stuart-Middleton +1
Are you using vs2015? with the arduino IDE extension?

[Stuart Middleton]

Yes. However I've found it more unstable than the previous version. Maybe that's just my setup.

[dpressle]

@Stuart-Middleton I am getting so many errors on a simple sketch:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error (active) expected a '{' c:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino\HardwareSerial.h 154

What am i missing here?

[dpressle]

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error (active) missing closing quote c:\Users\dpressle\Documents\Arduino\libraries\MySensors-2.0.0\core\MyTransport.cpp 507

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error (active) missing closing quote c:\Users\dpressle\Documents\Arduino\libraries\MySensors-2.0.0\core\MySensorsCore.cpp 262

i get this on all of the debug function calls in these files.

[Stuart Middleton]

I don't know. I would suspect that certain defines are not set up correctly or you are building for an unsupported CPU or a CPU you don't have installed?