Skip to main content

Command line interface wrapper for Arduino IDE, inspired by ino

Project description

# jno
Command line interface wrapper for Arduino IDE, inspired by ino.

# Installation
Using PyPi, the package can be obtained using:

pip install jno

If you prefer running the setup.py, then download repo, change working directory and do:

make install

Or you can use:

pip install .

# Initialize
To begin using jno, change working directory to your project. Then, perform:

jno init

This will initialize the basic directory structure and create a *jno.jno* file, which stores the local jno settings.

By default, jno does not know where your Arduino IDE is located - this is represented by EXEC_DIR in the config. There is a local and a global version of *jno.jno* files. The local *jno.jno* file overwrites the global version IF the parameters are not set to NULL or DEFAULT. To set up your EXEC_DIR, find your Arduino folder - say /home/pi/Documents/arduino-1.8.1. Perform:

jno setglobal --EXEC_DIR=/home/pi/Documents/arduino-1.8.1

OR

jno setlocal --EXEC_DIR=/home/pi/Documents/arduino-1.8.1

depending on what you plan on doing - setglobal means a local .jno with EXEC_DIR set to NULL will use the global EXEC_DIR instead.

Once EXEC_DIR is set, jno is ready to go. You should change the global and local settings to your liking - the options are documented below.

# Usage
The commands supported are:

*jno build [parameters]*: compile the code, verifying that there are no errors

*jno upload [parameters]*: compile + upload the code

*jno serial [parameters]*: start a serial monitor

*jno init*: initialize current working directory with libraries/, sketch/, and *jno.jno* if they are not present

*jno clean*: removes all build files (located in .build of directory)

*jno listmodels*: list the board models supported by your Arduino IDE

*jno setlocal [setting]*: change setting in local *jno.jno*

*jno setglobal [setting]*: change setting in global *jno.jno*

## Settings (for setlocal and setglobal)
These settings are the same as those contained in *jno.jno* files. These settings WILL be saved locally or globally. Note that lower case inputs are equally as valid. Possible parameters are as follows:

*--EXEC_DIR=/some/dir*: directory that contains the arduino executable file. NULL is the default value.

*--BOARD=boardname*: board that code should be compiled for. Possible 'boardname' choices include *uno* and *mega*. For boardname options, use the *listmodels* command.

*--PORT=/some/port*: port of arduino to upload code or start serial communication. On Linux, dmesg is useful in determining this.

*--BAUDRATE=9600*: baudrate used for serial communication. Must be an integer.

*--SKETCH_DIR=/some/dir*: directory of the local jno 'home'. Only mess with this if this *jno.jno* is meant to point to a deeper directory.

## Parameters (for other commands)
Parameters are used only for the current invocation of the command and override local settings - they WILL NOT be saved. Possible settings are:

*-b, --baud=9600*: see --BAUDRATE above. Only affects serial command.

*-p, --port=/some/port*: see --PORT above. Affects the upload and serial commands.

*--board=boardname*: see --BOARD above. Affects the build, upload, and listmodels commands.

# jno Directory Structure

A valid jno directory contains a *libraries* directory, a *sketch* directory with a *sketch.ino* inside, and a *jno.jno* file. The *libraries* directory should contain any libraries not included in your Arduino IDE. The structure looks like this:

```
my_ard_proj
.
|-- jno.jno [configuration file]
|-- libraries [directory containing dependencies]
|-- sketch [directory containing main program .ino file]
| `-- sketch.ino
|
`-- .build [directory for build files]
```

# References

This tool is a wrapper for the Arduino IDE commandline interface, documented here:
https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/master/build/shared/manpage.adoc

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

jno-0.4.0.tar.gz (11.7 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Source

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page