Fix ATtiny board support URL and installation notes#64
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Updated the URL for ATtiny board support and added a note about manual installation of the ATTinyCore library.
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| Go to Tools/Manage Libraries... and select ATTinyCore. Click install. If you cannot see the | ||
| ATTinyCore library, you may need to restart the IDE. | ||
| ATTinyCore library, you may need to restart the IDE or install the library manually (check instructions [here](https://github.com/SpenceKonde/ATTinyCore/blob/v2.0.0-devThis-is-the-head-submit-PRs-against-this/Installation.md)) |
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Funky choice of the name of the main branch....
I really hope they change the name of their main branch. If they do, this link will be broken.
Given this horrible name, I suggest to e.g change the link to refer to the main page https://github.com/SpenceKonde/ATTinyCore , and refer to its "Installation" subpage.
| The SMC is an ATtiny861 microcontroller, which is not supported in the IDE by default. | ||
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| To add support for it, open the Preferences dialog, and add the following text to the Additional Boards Manager URLs: http://drazzy.com/package_drazzy.com_index.json. | ||
| To add support for it, open the Preferences dialog, and add the following text to the Additional Boards Manager URLs: https://drazzy.com/package_drazzy.com_index.json. |
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How is this change a "fix"? A fix indicates that something is broken.
The "Installation" page, which you have added a link to, actually refers to the existing "http"-link.
That said. I can open both the http and the https versions, which seem to contain the same data.
For the record, does this change "fix" something that you are aware of, or, is the motivation of this change to replace the "deprecated" "http" protocol with the more modern and safer "https" protocol?
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That said, thanks for your contribution! The devil is in the details.... |
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Please note that the owner of drazzy.com has a history of not keeping the web server certificate valid, which causes errors when using HTTPS. I was in direct contact with the owner in 2023, bringing his attention to the fact that the certificate had expired. He then had "no ETA" on updating it, referencing multiple technical obstacles that I didn't fully understand. We then had to change the protocol to HTTP. The current drazzy.com certificate expires on April 26. I'm not against going back to HTTPS, but if this problem ever occurs again, I vote for HTTP. |
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Updated the URL for ATtiny board support and added a note about manual installation of the ATTinyCore library.