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Add boards.txt to Arduino IDE

Add boards.txt to Arduino IDE

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PostNov 17, 2018#1

Total noob with this device. Have spent a couple of hours going round in circles trying to solve this.

Using Arduino IDE 1.85 on Windows 10

Just received a WhisperNode (yesterday).  Added FTDI connector - got the 'welcome' message and added the Libraries BUT
Bit Bucket docs say to add http://talk2arduino.wisen.com.au/master ... index.json  to additional boards manager URLs but I get 'Error downloading http://talk2arduino.wisen.com.au/master ... index.json' in the IDE message pane.

Pasting the URL into a browser I get 'destination unknown'.

Has the URL changed? If so, can someone please  let me know what it is?

Many thanks for any help.

PostNov 17, 2018#2

Found another json at https://bitbucket.org/talk2/arduino-ide ... index.json

But it appears to be broken :-

Skipping contributed index file C:\Users\brian\AppData\Local\Arduino15\package_talk2.wisen.com_index.json, parsing error occured:
com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null')
 at [Source: java.io.FileInputStream@ab9581; line: 1, column: 2]
Skipping contributed index file C:\Users\brian\AppData\Local\Arduino15\package_talk2.wisen.com_index.json, parsing error occured:
com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null')
 at [Source: java.io.FileInputStream@1af90de; line: 1, column: 2]

It clearly downloaded so I'll have a look to see if I can fix it myself.

PostNov 17, 2018#3

What was downloaded was a web page with the json in it. So I copied the text of the JSON into a text file and pointed the IDE at is using FILE:<full path to json file>.

Still no joy - Talk2 not appearing in boards manager. I guess I'm going to need more knowledge of the arduino board.txt structure, a pair of scissors and a wallpaper brush.

PostNov 19, 2018#4

It seems the json server was having a break. Worked ok next day.
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