Sloeber 4.3 how to work with sonoff-tasmota project

[MAWMN]

Hello,
I am using Sloeber 4.3 for programming and flashing my Arduino and Wemos boards.
Is there any description, video or short notes of how to import/use the Sonoff-Tasmota application in(to) the sloeber environment ?
I am using Sloeber plugin 4.3 and the Sonoff Tasmota release 6.4.0

Help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance..

[uzi18]

You will not find anything about it, but it is possible to export platformio project for eclipse and import/open it in sloeber

[MAWMN]

Hello,
thank you for your prompt reply..
Is there any information or example of how to do this, because I am not familiar with PlatformIO

Thanks..

[jantje]

@MAWMN can you point me to the Sonoff-Tasmota application documentation? More specific on how to use it with arduino?

[MAWMN]

Hello Jantje,

Global documentation : https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/wiki
version v6.4.0

installing it in the Arduino-IDE : https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/wiki/Arduino-IDE
I was using 1.8.8.

download source : https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/releases
(the source code .zip)

regards,

[jantje]

@MAWMN That would be about the same installation procedure in sloeber.
The differences are the file locations of the installed stuff is in [sloeber]/arduinoPlugin/packages
For the library add the location to the private library options in the preferences.

remember that each time you modified a platform.txt or boards.txt you need to open the project properties and select apply/ok

[uzi18]

You need only this: https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/ide/eclipse.html
I have some changes which add some support for tasmota and espeasy,
but they are not compatible with actual code base of sloeber and it was some. kind of WIP.
Generally platform.io projects has got. files in src and libs in lib dir and sloeber has got some problems with this.

[MAWMN]

@jantje I will give it a try tomorrow, will let you know the results, or problems I mayby will face.

thanks

[MAWMN]

@uzi18 I presume I will have to install platformIO for this ?

thanks

[uzi18]

yes, it is used to build tasmota

[MAWMN]

@ jantje I have ben ill for a couple of days, so the delay..
I am still not able to get my Sonoff project to compliled correctly after trying to to do a lot of testing also.

Is there anything or perhaps a setting which is causing me these problems ?

[jantje]

Looking at the image it looks as if you need to upgrade your Sloeber skills before you can handle project that are not fully integrated (yet).
Things that tell me so:
-Nothing on the image states what the problem is.
-There is a folder sonof libraries which (when you follow the sonof instructions should not be there)
-The console output is not visible (here the first error is the interesting one)
-The errors in the makefile are nearly never the root cause nor helping to find the root cause
-The problem view is interesting but it should be at least expanded for errors (and with 100+ errors a screenshot will not do)

I didn't get this to work but what I did:
Download the zip Sonoff-Tasmota-6.4.1.zip
Extract the zip Sonoff-Tasmota-6.4.1.zip

EDIT: below I wrongly added ..\Sonoff-Tasmota-6.4.1\arduino\version 2.5.0 to the libraries it had to be the folder ..\Sonoff-Tasmota-6.4.1\lib

renamed the folder ..\Sonoff-Tasmota-6.4.1\arduino\version 2.5.0 to ..\Sonoff-Tasmota-6.4.1\arduino\sonof_lib_2.5.0 (spaces are a bad idea in C/C++ world)

EDIT: removing the version numbers from the folder names of the libraries will make sloeber to do a better job at adding the libraries automagically.

Added this folder to the private libraries in Sloeber

Created a new project
deleted the created ino file

EDIT: rebuilding the indexer from time to time helps as well SPI.h seems to need a indexer rebuild.

Dragged and dropped the files from ..\Sonoff-Tasmota-6.4.1\sonoff in the project (selecting copy)
Build (a couple of times).

EDIT: with the edits above the below issue should not appear. You should start getting the undefined methods as discussed later in this issue.

Now I get this issue (based on the comments there must be more info on the web; I didn't look)

[uzi18]

@jantje if you want to compile this it is better to add platformio support

you need this lib: https://github.com/envy/esp-knx-ip

[jantje]

@jantje if you want to compile this it is better to add platformio support

@uzi18 IMHO platformio has got nothing to do with this.
platformio has its own way of building which is not compliant with the Arduino way nor with the CDT way. Further on these are all simple source files organized in the Arduino way.

Running platformio build commands from eclipse is easy and does not require any integration*. However it doesn't add more value to the user experience than a notepad++ (which has a far lower footprint/startup time) would.

*to run platformio command select run->external tools
ps platformio pissed me off so bad that I consider anyone mentioning them to be a troll. A troll advertising platformio to be real arduino ide alternative which it is not (technically speaking).

[MAWMN]

@jantje I was still not able to do an successful compilation, also not after your leads.

Why is it so difficult to get the (an) project working in Sloeber ?

I have done successful compilations and uploads from Arduino IDE, PlatformIO, and VisualStudio-code (with the PlatformIO extension).

I rather would like to use Sloeber, because of all the useful popups etc. you can enable, like the one showing external code when hovering over f.i. a function call.
This functionality comes in very handy when you have not written the code yourself, to directly see what is happening over there.

[jantje]

@MAWMN

Why is it so difficult to get the (an) project working in Sloeber ?

Because Sloeber is a professional open development environment and therefore supports 100 ways to do something. In other words; there is at least one "easy way" but it is "easy to get lost" which makes it "difficult".
See more on the faq page
http://eclipse.baeyens.it/faq.shtml#/ide_vs_plugin

PS: it took me less than 10 minutes to get to the point where the project compiled and showed a library needed to be installed.
According to @uzi18 post this is a github library which can be installed on your system in many ways. For instance as a zip as in the sonotof documentation or as a github repository. I would go for cloning the repository and importing it in my workspace as a git repository (and add the folder to my private repositories) but my guess would be you would prefer downloading the zip and unzipping it in [your home folder]/arduino/libraries (as this is in the private libraries)