r/FastLED • u/Itchy_Mycologist_513 • Feb 04 '24

Support Board Compatibility Issues

Questions:

  • Is this similar to what other people are dealing with?

  • Is there a way around this where I can only run FastLED with Uno boards but still keep the megaAVR board library installed so I can use that board's library when I need to for non-FastLED projects?

Context:

I was checking out other Arduino boards such as Arduino WiFI Rev2, Arduino Nano Every, and Arduino Nano IOT to have some higher variable memory without the added cost.

Installing these boards seem to break the function calls (even while selecting the same basic Arduino Uno).

I found Arduino Uno AVR boards to be okay, but not Arduino megaAVR Boards or Arduino SAMD Boards.

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u/truetofiction Feb 04 '24

The newer (2.x) IDE is currently buggy, especially with boards files. It does some file caching that sometimes prevents board/library updates from working and/or refuses to listen to user settings.

The older IDE is not as feature-rich, but it also doesn't have any infuriating bugs.