#Shotbot arduino build download#
It is time to download and configure our agent, from the Agent pool configuration section, select your platform (in my case Windows), download for your architecture and follow the installation steps provided on the page. If you would like more information about the scopes for PATs you can visit the following link: On this area we will be able create a new PAT, that we can later use to authenticate against our organization, be sure to select the scopes for Agents and do not forget to copy and safely store your token as it cannot be retrieved after it is created. Our server is now ready and we need to configure it as a self-hosted agent in Azure DevOps, in order to do this we will need to provide credentials for our server, the simplest way to do this is using Personal Access Tokens this is a fairly common task in Azure DevOps, all you need to do is click on your profile picture and click the Security menu. Once installed, it is best to add an entry to our path variable to be able to call this tools from any directory, this will simplify the configuration of our agent and the creation of pipelines.įinally we need to test our build server, we can easily do this opening a PowerShell window and typing arduino-builder, if everything is ok we should get some output with the usage instructions for this tool.
#Shotbot arduino build driver#
I used a Windows machine for my build server but Linux is also an option as the Arduino tools are cross platform I downloaded the latest version of the Arduino IDE and proceeded with the setup, as the agent is only used to compile our sketches we do not need the USB driver in our installation.
Arduino IDE includes a command line tool called arduino-builder, this tool is perfect for our needs as it can be used without user interaction directly from a script.
The main component needed for this proof of concept is an Azure DevOps agent capable of compiling Arduino sketches as this is not a capability of any of the Microsoft hosted agents, I will configure a self-hosted agent with the proper tools that can be used to compile our files. Today, I have decided to have a little fun and create simple proof of concept pipeline to demonstrate the capabilities of the platform working with microcontrollers. If you have ever been to a conference about Azure DevOps, chances are that you have heard the phrase “any language, any platform”, this is a very powerful statement which basically means that anything you can script or call over the network can be used in a pipeline and become part of a DevOps strategy.
#Shotbot arduino build how to#
In this post, App Dev Manager Roberto Peña shows how to setup Azure DevOps Build pipeline for Arduino microcontrollers.
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