Additional boards manager urls

alexandruioanprundar · January 23, 2023, 1:10pm

In arduino ide to add new boards I use Additional boards manager urls, for example by inserting this link https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qbolsee/ArduinoCore-fab-sam/master/json/package_Fab_SAM_index.json.
I would like to do the same thing with platformio in visual studio code, can you give me an indication on how to proceed?
Thank you

maxgerhardt · January 23, 2023, 1:39pm

PlatformIO operates fundamentally differently, you can’t just give it a board manager URL and have PlatformIO recognize everything. It needs explicit coding in Python (+JSON descriptions) for each supported framework / board.

Support for that core with SAMD11 and SAML21 boards is still an open issue per

github.com/platformio/platform-atmelsam

Support for ATSAMD11 boards

opened 03:13PM - 25 Feb 21 UTC

Theremingenieur

board request feature

What kind of issue is this? - [x] **Feature Request**. Start by tellin…g us what problem you’re trying to solve. Often a solution already exists! Don’t send pull requests to implement new features without first getting our support. Sometimes we leave features out on purpose to keep the project small. I'd like to see support for ATSAMD11 boards added to platformIO. Although not very popular, these little beasts come in a hand solder friendly SOIC-14 format and have native USB. There is already a fork of the Arduino-samd core by mattairtech which adds everything [https://github.com/mattairtech/ArduinoCore-samd] but I have no clue how to "import" these additions into platformIO. Thank you in advance for your kind consideration !

and

adn I don’t see an open PR that implements support yet, so no PlatformIO support yet.

alexandruioanprundar · January 23, 2023, 2:03pm

Thanks for the reply.
For example, I need to be able to use platformio, for the ATSAMD51J19A, and ATSAME53J19A microcontroller, and generate their bootloaders.
There is a more detailed guide on how to generate platform.json and main.py, in order to add this two microcontrollers?