Can't program Seeeduino Zero on Odyssey Blue from Linux using Arduino IDE

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#1

Hi,

It isn’t possible to upload an Arduino sketch to the Seeeduino Zero on Odyssey Blue from Linux. I have installed the Seeed SAMD Boards, and selected ttyACM0.

Get Board Info works and reports:

BN: Seeeduino Zeo
VID: 0x2886
PID: 0x8008

But uploading fails with:

No device found on ttyACM0
Failed uploading: uploading error: exit status 1

The EXACT same setup on Windows works and I can program the built-in Seeeduino Zero. I am using Ubuntu 18.04.

Any ideas?

#2

Hello @garysims,

Can you try to RESET the AMSAMDG21 by adding a jumper wire between RST Pin and GND Pin on the 4-Pin header (to the left of SAMD21’s 28 pins) and try again?

Thank you.

#3

It isn’t a reset problem. I have both Windows and Ubuntu on the Odyssey. When I boot into Windows it works. When I boot into Ubuntu, it doesn’t.

#4

Hello @garysims,

Sorry for the late reply. I have just tested on my ODYSSEY-X86. I installed Ubuntu 18.04 and Arduino IDE 1.8.19 and I could upload successfully to the Seeeduino Zero.

Can I know your Arduino IDE version?

#5

Hi @lakshan

Thanks for your reply. So I was using Arduino IDE 2.0. Then I tried Arduino 1.8.19. The earlier version worked. However, I noticed that part of the setup for 1.8.19 is to call some scripts including arduino-linux-setup.sh. Once I had done the setup for 1.8.19 then 2.0 started working. It seems 2.0 needs the same setup steps, but the scripts aren’t included with the 2.0 download!

#6

That’s great. Glad it is working now. I think arduino-linux-setup.sh is responsible to fix certain permission issues.

#7

Hi, I’m experiencing a similar board-program problem Using Arduino-2.0.0 IDE with WIO-Terminal on Windows-10. Reverting to Arduino-1.8.19 IDE solves this, but I assume the new 64-bit IDE will be the path of choice so a fix would be good. Thank you, Dave.