Rapid IoT System Design with Arduino

Arduino provides an end-to-end approach to IoT that includes hardware, software, connectivity and cloud that enables users to focus on building their applications instead of spending time on the ‘how’.

Watch a recap of this webinar in association with Arduino to find out about rapid IoT system design.

This episode in the series is led by Dominic Pajak, VP Business Development, Arduino.

Install both ESP32 and ESP8266 on Arduino IDE, run on Ubuntu.

Before install ESP32/8266 on Arduino IDE running on Ubuntu, python is needed to be installed. Otherwise, you will be reported with error of:
exec: "python": executable file not found in $PATH

To install python and wget on Ubuntu, run the command in terminal:
$ sudo apt install python
$ sudo apt install python-pip
$ pip install wget

The simplest way to install ESP32/8266 on Arduino IDE is using Boards Manager,

To add boards manager, click in the menu
> File > Preferences >

Enter https://dl.espressif.com/dl/package_esp32_index.json (for ESP32) or/and http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json (for ESP8266) in Additional Boards Manager URLs. When add multiple URLs, separating them with commas.

This video show how:


If you run with error of:
ImportError: No module named serial.tools.list_ports

Most likely the pyserial is too old, re-install it with:
$ pip install pyserial

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Updated@2020-06-26:
If you are looking for Ubuntu 20.04, read it Install ESP32/ESP8266 to Arduino IDE on Ubuntu 20.04, with setup Pythton & serial.

Install Arduino IDE 1.8.9 on Ubuntu 18.10 and set permission for serial port

This video show how to install the latest Arduino IDE 1.8.9 on a fresh new Ubuntu 18.10 (on VirtualBox 6.0/Windows 10).



This installation is very straightforward:
- visit Arduino Software download page to download the Linux 32 bits or 64 bits version corresponding to your system.
- Extract the downloaded file to the where you want to install.
- Open Terminal to run the install.sh with sudo.
$ sudo ./install.sh

After finished, you can start Arduino IDE with arduino command or from Application launcher.

But...up to this step, you have no permission to access the serial port. When you download the code to Arduino devices, you will be reported with error:

avrdude: ser_open(): can't open device "/dev/ttyACM0": Permission denied


To fix it, you have to add permission:
- Open Terminal, enter the command:
$ sudo usermod -a -G dialout <username>
$ sudo chmod a+rw /dev/ttyACM0