Programmer setting is ignored, causing upload to fail

[Aram Akhavan]

I have a USBASP programmer, and my arduino.json has "programmer": "usbasp". I have no choice but to set a COM port, or the extension won't allow me to upload In this case I used "port": "port" as suggested in #630 (comment). The programmer setting then seems to be ignored, as avrdude tries to upload via the com port even though I've selected my programmer.

"C:\Users\aram\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/bin/avrdude" "-CC:\Users\aram\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino17/etc/avrdude.conf" -v -V -patmega328p -carduino "-Pport" -b57600 -D "-Uflash:w:y:\git\hawgtrophy\build/hawgtrophy.ino.hex:i"

[Aram Akhavan]

This looks like a pretty easy fix, and I'd be happy to submit the PR if you'll merge it.

Update src/arduinio/programmer.ts to parse *.communication from programmers.txt.

Update

vscode-arduino/src/arduino/arduino.ts

Lines 629 to 644 in 4ecf9e4

 if (!dc.port) { 
     await selectSerial(); 
     return false; 
 } 
  
 if (this.useArduinoCli()) { 
     args.push("compile", 
         "--upload", 
         "--programmer", programmer); 
 } else { 
     args.push("--upload", 
         "--useprogrammer", 
         "--pref", `programmer=${programmer}`); 
 } 
  
 args.push("--port", dc.port); 

and

vscode-arduino/src/arduino/arduino.ts

Lines 651 to 662 in 4ecf9e4

 if (!dc.port) { 
     await selectSerial(); 
     return false; 
 } 
 if (!this.useArduinoCli()) { 
     arduinoChannel.error("This command is only available when using the Arduino CLI"); 
     return false; 
 } 
  
 args.push("upload", 
     "--programmer", programmer, 
     "--port", dc.port); 

to only call selectSerial and push the argument if *.communication === "serial

[Aram Akhavan]

Bumping. @gcampbell-msft - is this project still active?

[Ion Todirel]

Hi, we see this as a feature request. At this time we don't plan on supporting this scenario.

[Aram Akhavan]

At this time we don't plan on supporting this scenario.

You don't plan on supporting USB programmers?

[Ion Todirel]

We don't plan on supporting the scenario you outlined. If you connect an Arduino via USB and use the built-in bootloader, that's the only scenario we support and that should work. If you have issues with that scenario, let us know.

[Aram Akhavan]

We don't plan on supporting the scenario you outlined. If you connect an Arduino via USB and use the built-in bootloader, that's the only scenario we support and that should work. If you have issues with that scenario, let us know.

That's disappointing. Why such limited support? There seems to be a lot of interest from the community to improve the extension, but not so much from Microsoft to accept the help...

[CodeAsm]

Please support this scenario. the core of teh arduino is being able to programm arduino boards. If the bootloader is missing, using a usbasp, same for debugging

[buiapp]

Please support this. Because of this missing feature my team can't completely ditch the Arduino IDE.