AVRDUDESS – A GUI for AVRDUDE

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The ATtiny4313 isn’t in the supplied avrdude.conf file (conf seems to have been last updated 2010-01-15, apart from me adding the ATmega328 non-P), updating the avrdude.conf file will add it to the drop down list.
Link – Extract avrdude.conf.in, rename to avrdude.conf and replace the old one.

EDIT
Seems the new avrdude.conf has a few extra things that the supplied avrdude.exe doesn’t support, you’ll probably have to compile the new avrdude as well.

EDIT2
Actually just deleting the lines avrdude moans about seems to be ok.

Thanks :). Not at the moment, but if you want to edit the source a quick hack to get close to what you want would be to add cmbPresets.SelectedIndex = 3; at the end of the Form1_Load() method, that will load whatever preset is at position 3 in the drop down list (starting at 0) when the program loads. I’ll add sticky settings for the next version.

To run as root use sudo mono avrdudess.exe.

The source is in with the download (in src folder) so you can edit the GUI as you wish. You’ll need Visual Studio to open the project and compile etc.

Hey,

Some changes are needed to correctly parse the new config, if you’re up to editing the code and recompiling in Visual Studio you can replace the code at the bottom of the loadConfig() method in Form1.cs with this:

(Code by Uwe Tanger, I’ve not tried it yet)

            for(int i=0;i<lines.Length;i++)
            {
                int pos;

                string s = lines[i].Trim();
                if ((s.StartsWith("part") || s.StartsWith("programmer")))
                {
                    i++;
                    pos = lines[i].IndexOf('=');
                    if (pos>0)
                    {
                        if (lines[i].Substring(1, pos - 1).Trim().ToString() == "id")
                        {
                            string id = lines[i].Substring(pos + 1).Trim(new char[] { ' ', '"', ';' });
                            i++;
                            pos = lines[i].IndexOf('=');
                            if (pos > 0)
                            {
                                if (lines[i].Substring(1, pos - 1).Trim().ToString() == "desc")
                                {
                                    string desc = lines[i].Substring(pos + 1).Trim(new char[] { ' ', '"', ';' });

                                    if (s.StartsWith("part"))
                                        mcus.Add(new MCU(id, desc));
                                    else
                                        programmers.Add(new Programmer(id, desc));
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

Glad you like the program 🙂
The fuse bits are not stored in the .conf file, but are hard coded into the program here https://github.com/zkemble/AVRDUDESS/blob/master/src/avrdudess/FusesAndLocks.cs#L325
At some point I’ll be making it load from a file instead.
If you’ve got a GitHub account you can fork the project, fix it that bit, then do a pull request.

Not a bug, that’s how it’s meant to work :P. The bit clock is the time of each clock cycle in microseconds. 0.5us = 2MHz, which gets rounded down to the nearest supported frequency which is 1.5MHz. 1500us = 666Hz, which when rounded down is 500Hz.

Hey, AVRDUDESS gets all the programmers and MCUs from avrdude.conf. I believe the programmer you are looking for is called “Arduino: FT232R connected to ISP”.

Yeah, seems ‘usb’ is a special one with avrdude. Lower case ‘usb’ will make avrdude use libusb, otherwise it tries to open it as a file/port.

The GitHub changes are not in the compiled 2.2 because they’re for the next release. You can see all the changes since 2.2 here.
AVRDUDE ignores the -P option when USBasp is set as the programmer, which is why the upper case USB works for it and not the DRAGON.