Cannot select board type

[festiveelephantseal]

Nothing is showing when i try to select the board type but i am able to select the serial port. I am able to use Arduino IDE to upload sketches though.

OS: Arch Linux

[Starkiller4011]

Same issue as nerdthatnoonelikes though when I tried to set the Board Type through the command pallet I got "No supported board is available.\n\nSource: Arduino (Extension)". OS: Manjaro

[festiveelephantseal]

So i tested the extension on my machine with Xubuntu 20.04 and the extension worked fine. Is there a reason It worked on Xubuntu and not Arch Linux?

[festiveelephantseal]

So today I reinstalled Arch Linux and installed the Arduino extension for vscode and I can select the board. But I cannot click on the Button. Its completely unresponsive.

[ben-kuhn]

Same problem on Ubuntu 20.10

[Aumandaris]

Same problem on Manjaro KDE Plasma 21.0.2

[JorgeMarinC]

Same problem here on Ubuntu 20.04

[JuanDavidBallesteros]

I solved this problem (Linux), you need to download the Arduino official version (later version of 1.6). The version has a install.sh file, you can install those files running in console from the folder the command sh file_name.sh

Then, the paths must look something like this, so update the paths:

"arduino.path": "/home/redes/Descargas/arduino-1.8.15", "arduino.commandPath": "arduino"

Finally, you must to restart vs code

[orlade]

I also get this behaviour (Mac) when trying to use arduino-cli. It works when not using the CLI.

Even with "board": "arduino:avr:uno", already defined in arduino.json, it's not picked up.

[yuxiaoyuan0406]

I solved this problem (Linux), you need to download the Arduino official version (later version of 1.6). The version has a install.sh file, you can install those files running in console from the folder the command sh file_name.sh

Then, the paths must look something like this, so update the paths:

"arduino.path": "/home/redes/Descargas/arduino-1.8.15", "arduino.commandPath": "arduino"

Finally, you must to restart vs code

Run whereis arduino gives /usr/local/bin/arduino.
So I set my settings like this:

    "arduino.path": "/usr/local/bin",
    "arduino.commandPath": "arduino"

Still not working.

OS: Ubuntu 20.04

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[andrewsno1]

I had the same issue: I could not select the board even though I had set path and commandPath.

As soon as I created a .vscode folder in the workspace of my project and created a file called arduino.json within that folder it sudenly worked: I could select the boards and the selected board would also appear in the arduino.json file.

I hope this helps.

[DayLightDancer]

I had the same issue but I am on windows and I solve it in that way:
VSCode uses the arduino app the get the board info so:

1. Open the Arduino app and setup the board
2. Close the Arduino app - it saves changes on close
3. Open VSCode set the propper path in the fields
4. Click outside of the edited field( sometimes VSCde lost field data if the tab is closed while the edited field is in focus )
5. Restart the VSCode

[plejsq]

F1 and after that Arduino:initialize have solved problem. Thank you @rrakso

[Shaladdin]

I found a Solution (in windows 10, [but maybe work for you too?])
I download the Arduino(official) version 1.8.13
and change the Arduino extension in vsCode to version v0.4.5

and it works!
now I can select board!

here is the link for download the Arduino
in case someone doesn't know-how
https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/OldSoftwareReleases

[clan4456]

I found a Solution (in windows 10, [but maybe work for you too?]) I download the Arduino(official) version 1.8.13 and change the Arduino extension in vsCode to version v0.4.5

and it works! now I can select board!

here is the link for download the Arduino in case someone doesn't know-how https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/OldSoftwareReleases

Thank you for your solution!

My Arduino version is 1.8.16, then I change the Arduino extension in the VSCode to version 0.4.5.

Now it wroks!

(PS: Windows 10 Home 21H1)

[isaacdnew]

I just had the same issue as @clan4456, and the same fix worked for me (revert to Arduino VSCode extension to v0.4.5). I'm on Windows 10 Pro. Seems like this is an issue with the latest extension release - should it be a new issue?

[sparkybrit]

Downgrading to v0.4.5 fixed this for me (on MacOS 10.15.7 Intel)

[magouero]

same here.
reverted arduino extension from 0.4.6 to 0.4.5 and Arduino board configuration comes back to life.

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vscode about:
Version : 1.61.0 (system setup)
Commit : ee8c7def80afc00dd6e593ef12f37756d8f504ea
Date : 2021-10-07T18:13:09.652Z
Electron : 13.5.1
Chrome : 91.0.4472.164
Node.js : 14.16.0
V8 : 9.1.269.39-electron.0
OS : Windows_NT x64 10.0.19043

[ThunderDanG]

Reverting Arduino extension from 0.4.6 to 0.4.5 also fixed this for me on Ubuntu 21.04

[gustafwigren]

Thanx, Reverting extension from 0.4.6 to 0.4.5 also fixed this for me on windows10

[MysteryMS]

Reverting to 0.4.5 also fixed for me on Windows 11.

[remy]

This problem also occurred on a Mac and the fix (to downgrade to 0.4.5) also worked 👍

[AlexIII]

Can confirm reverting from 0.4.6 to 0.4.5 fixes the problem (win10)

[han-fastolfe]

How do you get v0.4.5? I can only see v0.4.6 to install

[MysteryMS]

How do you get v0.4.5? I can only see v0.4.6 to install

You should be able to select a specific version by clicking on "Install Another Version" from the Uninstall dropdown.

[Edwardhk]

Reverting to version 0.4.5 solved the problem too. (Ubuntu 20.04)

[benmcmorran]

Fixed in v0.4.7.

[GShashikanth]

I spent hours on setting Vs code for arduino, but no bingo, can anyone post step by step working process for Linux.

[RanzQ]

If you installed arduino using snap:

$ which arduino
/snap/bin/arduino

I figured out that the paths are a bit weird. But these seem to work:

"arduino.path": "/snap/arduino/current",
"arduino.commandPath": "../../bin/arduino"

Without that relative command path, the snap's /snap/arduino/current/bin/java isn't found.

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[laestrada]

Was able to get this working on MacOS Monterey 12.1 with arduino-cli and vscode extension 0.4.8. Some initialization was needed using the arduino cli:

1. $ arduino-cli config init ( this step may not be necessary )
2. $ arduino-cli board list to get the core version
3. $ arduino-cli core install <insert-core-version-here>
4. Restart vscode
   Edit: I should note that my arduino-cli version is 0.20.2 installed with homebrew.

[zakkhoyt]

arduino-cli board list failed for me on macOS 12.1, but I was able to get running with arduino-cli core install adruino:avr

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[ipg0]

reverting did not fix anything on ubuntu 21.10

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[Mek101]

Re open, this issue is still present

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[crashbit666]

Yes, this issue is still present. I've install arduino-ide form snap. I've configure arduino paths and it working well. But when I try to select arduino board, empty list is showed. I'm using latest version of plugin and latest version of ide on ubuntu 22.04

[a1usha]

@laestrada Thanks, was missing arduino:avr core. After arduino-cli core install <insert-core-version-here> everything initialised properly. Plugin version 0.4.12

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