Add
board_upload.wait_for_upload_port = no
board_upload.use_1200bps_touch = no
to the platformio.ini. Does it still try to wait for serial port?
With those two lines I get this output:
Configuring upload protocol...
AVAILABLE: atmelice_isp
CURRENT: upload_protocol = atmelice_isp
Looking for upload port...
Using manually specified: usb
Uploading .pio/build/leonardo/firmware.hex
avrdude: usbdev_open(): WARNING: failed to set configuration 1: Device or resource busy
avrdude: stk500v2_command(): command failed
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.
Well now itās at least trying to talk to the Atmel ICE, but it doesnāt get far. Per other topics like Atmel-ICE with macOS Catalina - #6 by jeanlouis.lumia it should work okay.
There is a post at Unfreeze Your Atmel-ICE ā Arduino Craft Corner about a custom avrdude version. Does the last command, adapated to avrdude -c atmelice_isp -p m32u4 -v -t , show something?
I issued it in a terminal:
$ avrdude -c atmelice_isp -p m32u4 -v -t
avrdude: Version 6.3-20171130
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch
System wide configuration file is "/etc/avrdude.conf"
User configuration file is "/home/marcotrapanese/.avrduderc"
User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping
Using Port : usb
Using Programmer : atmelice_isp
avrdude: Found CMSIS-DAP compliant device, using EDBG protocol
AVR Part : ATmega32U4
Chip Erase delay : 9000 us
PAGEL : PD7
BS2 : PA0
RESET disposition : dedicated
RETRY pulse : SCK
serial program mode : yes
parallel program mode : yes
Timeout : 200
StabDelay : 100
CmdexeDelay : 25
SyncLoops : 32
ByteDelay : 0
PollIndex : 3
PollValue : 0x53
Memory Detail :
Block Poll Page Polled
Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack
----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
eeprom 65 20 4 0 no 1024 4 0 9000 9000 0x00 0x00
flash 65 6 128 0 yes 32768 128 256 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 9000 0x00 0x00
hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 9000 0x00 0x00
efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 9000 0x00 0x00
lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 9000 0x00 0x00
calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
Programmer Type : JTAG3_ISP
Description : Atmel-ICE (ARM/AVR) in ISP mode
Vtarget : 0.0 V
SCK period : 1.00 us
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x61
avrdude: stk500v2_jtag3_recv(): error in jtagmkII_recv()
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
Reading | | 0% 0.00savrdude: jtag3_edbg_send(): Unexpected response 0x81, 0x11
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x80
avrdude: stk500v2_jtag3_recv(): error in jtagmkII_recv()
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_send(): Unexpected response 0x81, 0x11
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x71
avrdude: stk500v2_jtag3_recv(): error in jtagmkII_recv()
Reading | ################# | 33% 0.84s
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_send(): Unexpected response 0x81, 0x11
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x61
avrdude: stk500v2_jtag3_recv(): error in jtagmkII_recv()
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 1.44s
avrdude: Device signature = 0x303030
avrdude: Expected signature for ATmega32U4 is 1E 95 87
Double check chip, or use -F to override this check.
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_send(): Unexpected response 0xc0, 0x54
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x71
avrdude: stk500v2_jtag3_recv(): error in jtagmkII_recv()
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_send(): Unexpected response 0x70, 0x54
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x61
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_send(): Unexpected response 0x17, 0x00
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_recv(): Unexpected response 0x71
avrdude: Short read, read only 0 out of 512 bytes
avrdude: jtag3_edbg_signoff(): failed to read from serial port (0)
avrdude done. Thank you.
Thatās not looking too good. It did find your device this time, but talking to the microcontroller failed completely. Either there is something wrong with the wiring between the AtmelICE and the target board or Atmel ICE firmware somehow has a fault or avrdude still has a fault. Sadly I have neither a Mac nor an Atmel ICE to further investigate this. The next recommended stop would be the avrdude programmers maybe. Issues Ā· avrdudes/avrdude Ā· GitHub
Before you open an issue there it might be worth compiling the very-latest avrdude version yourself and seeing if that created binary has the same problem. See Building AVRDUDE for macOS Ā· avrdudes/avrdude Wiki Ā· GitHub. Make sure to brew remove the old avrdude version.
Atmel Studio (within VirtualBox) programs correctly my board, so both the wirings and the programmer are ok.
I was just looking for a way to program the hex file without running Windows in the virtual machine.
By the way, Iām running Ubuntu 22.04 not a MAC.
The new avrdude version 7 has major refactorings ā itās worth trying it out, maybe it solves your previous problems.
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Oh actually, the github CI already builds it for you.
too late 
Iāve already built the master branch from github andā¦ it works!
I hate when they (Ubuntu-guys) use packages without testing themā¦
If you have a folder with the built avrdude executable and the avrdude.conf (like in the CI build I showed above), you can add a package.json file to it with content
{
"name": "tool-avrdude",
"version": "1.70000.223005",
"description": "AVRDUDE is a utility to download/upload/manipulate the ROM and EEPROM contents of AVR microcontrollers",
"keywords": [
"tools",
"uploader",
"microchip",
"avr"
],
"homepage": "http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avrdude",
"license": "GPL-2.0-or-later",
"system": [
"darwin_x86_64",
"darwin_arm64"
],
"repository": {
"type": "svn",
"url": "http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/avrdude/"
}
}
and given that you have PlatformIO commands available in the CLI (guide) you can the execute pio package pack in that folder. This will give you a .tar.gz file. You can then get back to your PlatformIO project and make PlatformIO use this working version of avrdude by specifying the path to that package file
platform_packages =
tool-avrdude@file://<path to .tar.gz here>
(docs) in the platformio.ini using the file:// protocol.
Does it work then within PlatformIO?
Iām going to try your last suggestion. Anyway, without any other change, it seems to work in platformio as well:
Configuring upload protocol...
AVAILABLE: atmelice_isp
CURRENT: upload_protocol = atmelice_isp
Looking for upload port...
Using manually specified: usb
Uploading .pio/build/leonardo/firmware.hex
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.00s
avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e9587 (probably m32u4)
avrdude: reading input file ".pio/build/leonardo/firmware.hex"
avrdude: writing flash (12256 bytes):
Writing | ################################################## | 100% 0.80s
avrdude: 12256 bytes of flash written
avrdude: verifying flash memory against .pio/build/leonardo/firmware.hex:
avrdude: load data flash data from input file .pio/build/leonardo/firmware.hex:
avrdude: input file .pio/build/leonardo/firmware.hex contains 12256 bytes
avrdude: reading on-chip flash data:
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.67s
avrdude: verifying ...
avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0202
0x00 != 0x84
avrdude: verification error; content mismatch
avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK (E:FB, H:D8, L:FF)
avrdude done. Thank you.
Now Iām trying to understand if the mismatch error is real or not.
Is it always the same byte position if you do it multiple times?
Usually the -e flag is supposed to get rid of that error by performing an erase beforehand. Does it work if you manually avrdude -e ... it on the commandline?
Yep. On the command line the erase flag does the trick.
But platformio seems to ignore the upload_flag = -e line in the ini file.
Oh thatās because it must be upload_flags = -e as documented. Did someone post it here without the s?
Ah ok! Yes, there are at least a couple of messages here above without the trailing s
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You know someway to performance a configuration to use ATMELICE in Microchip Studio and Platformio? The both at the same timeā¦ because I use Atmel Studio to debug in some cases since platformio is not possible.
I know that Atmel Studio require:
- ATMEL-ICE CMSIS-DAP (Interface 0) as driver HID
- ATMEL-ICE DATA GATEWAY (Interface 1) as driver WinUSB
Thanks 
RAR.
Unfortunately no I donāt. Maybe there is a way to have both drivers simultaneously?? If you find something, Iād be happy if you could share your solution!