MoteinoMega not showing up in Arduino IDE [solved]

Started by john4444, April 29, 2017, 09:58:27 PM

john4444

Several years ago I was able to get the MoteinoMEGA working.
However, after changing computers, I'm not able to get MoteinoMEGA or ArduinoMEGA (with "MEGA" in all caps) to show up in the list of boards.
I've installed Arduino 1.0.6 and it seems to be working normally.
I've tried to follow the directions located in the ...Shop/product/119:
"you will need to first install the MoteinoMEGA Core in the Arduino/hardware folder.
In the Arduino programming environment you need to select "ArduinoMEGA" under Tools>Boards".
I've also tried to follow the directions located in the .../guide/moteino-programming/arduinoide/ which says to: "manually install the Moteino core files to add the Moteino and MoteinoMEGA in the Tools>Boards menu."

So... from github I downloaded the Moteino 1.0.6.zip file (under Moteino/MEGA/Core/) and copied the un-zipped folder "Moteino" to:
Program Files/arduino/arduino-1.0.6/hardware/.
Still no joy.

What am I doing wrong?

John AE5HQ

Felix

I am using 1.0.6. Check your IDE path and core file locations.
Here's how mine is organized:

john4444

Felix, thanks for the photo. It was a big help.

I have folders named "arduino" in two places.
#1  C:\Users\johnm\Documents\Arduino
#2  C:\Program Files\arduino
Location 1 only had "libraries" in it.
Location 2 had "drivers", "examples", "hardware", "lib", "libraries", "tools" and several others.

Moving your "hardware" folder to location 1 with libraries seems to have done the trick.
Thanks for the clarification.
John AE5HQ