Using platformio to flash firmware from RPi

Platformio is a command line utility that can build and flash arduino source code. It works well with Marlin and the BigBox. In fact I don't even use the Arduino IDE at all. I use VIM (any text editor will work) to edit the Configuration.h and platformio to compile and upload it.

Find out more about platformio here: http://platformio.org/

Log into your RPi via ssh and issue the following commands

# Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install libmpc-dev libelf1 libftdi1
# Install platformio
sudo pip install platformio

Next checkout a fresh copy of the BigBox Marlin firmware, get the one for your printer (Dual or Pro). I use git instead of downloading the zip as I keep my changes in git as well. It doesn't matter how you get it (wget + unzip or git directly)

git clone https://github.com/joshuarowley42/BigBox-Pro-Marlin

Now we need to setup platformio. Create a file called platformio.ini in the BigBox-Pro-Marlin directory and put the following into it. (You can also download it directly here https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nemith/Marlin-BigBoxPro/master/platformio.ini)

[platformio]
src_dir = Marlin
lib_dir = lib

[env:bigbox]
platform = atmelavr
framework = arduino
board = megaatmega2560

upload_port=/dev/ttyACM0

lib_install=7

Now you can just run the follow command to build the firmware:

pio run

And to upload the firmware

pio run -t upload

The first time you run pio it may ask you to install the avr tools and other dependencies. This should also automaticall download the u8glib libraries for you as well! No need to pull out the laptop and fish around for the USB cable!


Note: If you learn git it will become very easily to suck in new updates from e3d on top of your modifications. https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1

 

Yeah. I am using pio for compiling on my pc as well. Being lazy checking out my repo from github recompiling on the RPi was the simplest. I want to just have avrdude on the RPi and setup some ssh automation to "push" the firmnware from my PC, but for now installing full pio on both systems is the fastest.

Yeah. Writing a plugin to just do a flash wouldn't be that hard. If i get bored I may give it a shot.

 

That is more of a warning. Shouldn't matter.