Oak not showing in Arduino board list

[dlmorgan999]

I just initialized the first of my three oak boards for the first time.  The firmware upgrade was really fighting me (it took about six tries before it worked) but eventually it updated okay.

The next step was to upgrade my Arduino IDE (I had 1.5.x installed).  I uninstalled the old version and then installed 1.6.5r5 (r2 was not available  for download).  I installed the Oak software from Boards Manager and it installed successfully, but the board doesn't show in the Boards list.  Just for good measure, I deleted the Digistump files and tried an install again, but still no luck.  Any advice?

[dlmorgan999]

I also just noticed that there is no Oak folder listed under File --> Examples.  Shouldn't there be?

[dlmorgan999]

One more bit of information.  While I haven't done anything with it for quite a while, I use this same computer to work on FastLED programming projects. When doing that, I use Visual Studio and Visual Micro.  I just noticed that in Visual Studio, the Oak entries show up - they are just missing from the Arduino IDE.  If Visual Studio / Visual Micro will work, I can use those, although I'm still curious as to why the Arduino IDE isn't behaving.

[dlmorgan999]

And yet one more piece of information.  I also have this computer set up to program my DigiX.  Could that be causing any issues or conflicts?

[jwhendy]

What operating system is this on? Can you search for things with the name "oak"? Maybe some screenshots from the Arduino IDE (one attached showing File -> Examples _Oak_Examples)?

Here's what I have in my home folder (this is on linux) which was installed via the boards manager. Maybe you can verify you have these, or where in your system path they are (perhaps the IDE isn't checking there):

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~/.arduino15/staging/packages/oakcli-1.0.0-linux64.tar.gz
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/tools/sdk/ld/oak_full.ld
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/tools/sdk/ld/oak_half2.ld
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/tools/sdk/ld/oak_half1.ld
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/libraries/OakLCD
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/libraries/_Oak_Examples/Oak_Examples.h
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/libraries/Adafruit_NeoPixel_Oak/examples/oak
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/libraries/Adafruit_NeoPixel_Oak/examples/oak/oak.ino
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/libraries/Blynk/examples/BoardsAndShields/Oak
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/libraries/Blynk/examples/BoardsAndShields/Oak/Oak.ino
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/cores/oak
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/cores/oak/OakParticle
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/cores/oak/OakParticle/oakboot-bigflash.c
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/cores/oak/OakParticle/OakParticle.h
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/cores/oak/OakParticle/Oak.cpp
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/cores/oak/OakParticle/Oak.h
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/cores/oak/OakParticle/oakboot.h
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/cores/oak/OakParticle/OakParticle.cpp
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/variants/oak1
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/hardware/oak/1.0.0/variants/oak
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/tools/oakcli
~/.arduino15/packages/digistump/tools/oakcli/1.0.0/oak


[dlmorgan999]

Thanks for the response. 

This is on Windows 10.  I did a search for Oak at one point during my troubleshooting.  I just looked again and found that I have the same files as you do under the Arduino15\Packages folder.

I also found an _Oak_Examples folder in there.  It doesn't show in the IDE though.  I would include a screenshot, but I have more libraries than can fit on the screen, and the Windows version of the IDE uses a scrollbar to move the ones off-screen.

[jwhendy]

Man, I'm really banging my head on the wall on this one. Do you have other custom libraries or boards you've added (per your comment about "lots of libraries")? If so, where are they located? I keep thinking this is some sort of version compatibility thing? As a side note, I'm a lab instructor a the U of Minnesota and there was a student I was helping get started with Arduino on his Win10 laptop. The windows, icons, and fonts were ridiculously small. I googled it and turned up plenty of hits.

Not that this is related at all... just precedent for Win10 being potentially "weird."

I googled around a bit for "board not showing in board manager windows 10" but didn't get anything obvious. There was this github issue about the zero not showing up, but the resolution wasn't super clear. I think the point had to do about the .json config for that board set not containing the zero at the time of the 1.6.5 release, but we're manually adding the url, so that doesn't make sense. I think the easiest would be to see if any additional board can be installed and then figure out where it's living. Or maybe try a different installation of Arduino. I'm on 1.6.8 for reference.

Sorry I can't help more, but sounds really frustrating!

[PeterF]

On my Windows 10 system, running Arduino 1.6.8, the examples folder is located (with subfolders for all the different examples):

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C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\digistump\hardware\oak\1.0.0\libraries\_Oak_Examples\examples
so for you that would probably be (you should be able to copy and paste this - using environmental variable, and changed Local to Roaming for pre1.6.6/1.6.7 path)

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%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Arduino15\packages\digistump\hardware\oak\1.0.0\libraries\_Oak_Examples\examples
Only other thing I can point out is that '_Oak_Examples', so is located at the top of the custom libraries examples section, not around the "O"s. Pretty pics attached And as you can see, I have DigiX, and Digisparks, and no conflicts or issues there. Hopefully this gets you nearer to the cause of the issue.

[jwhendy]

Wait, are those pics from your system? The board manager shows the oak and I see the examples too? Or am I not understanding the issue?

[PeterF]

I think you read that too fast @jwhendry! I'm on Windows 10 also, and was showing where and what they *should* look like (in the hope that it helps dlmorgan999 find out what the problem is).

Pete

[jwhendy]

Haha! I didn't even look to see who wrote that! Whoops!

That makes waaay more sense now.I kept thinking, "Hey! You've got nothing to worry about, you're all set and just don't realize it!"

Well, I hope the mystery can be resolved...

[dlmorgan999]

Thanks for the various suggestions!  I haven't gone dark - just gotten quite busy.  I probably won't have time to play with this again until Sunday.  When I do, I'll poke around again (and maybe do a complete wipe and reinstall of the Arduino IDE) and report back on how it goes.