arduino-board-switch-plugin

Arduino plugin that allows you to select only the boards you want to see in the IDE. It works using the undocumented ".hide=" attribute in the "boards.txt" file that hides a board.

Installation

• Download the "arduino-board-switch.zip" file from the releases page folder.
• Extract the "arduino-board-switch.jar" file from the "arduino-board-switch.zip" file.
• Open the "Tools" folder of your sketchbook folder (File-Preferences-Sketchbook location). If this folder not exists please create.
• Inside the "Tools" folder create a new folder named "ArduinoBoardSwitch".
• Inside the "ArduinoBoardSwitch" create another folder named "tool".
• Finally, copy the "arduino-board-switch.jar" file inside this last folder.

Example:

C:\Users\mchav\Documents\Arduino\Tools\ArduinoBoardSwitch\tool\arduino-board-switch.jar

NOTE: In Linux the "tools" folder must be in lowercase (thanks @junderdo)

If all works and you start Arduino IDE you must see a new entry menu in your "Tools" menu like this:

Using

To hide boards first select the new menu entry and then select the platform you want to modify from the top list and then simply unselect the boards you want to hide. To finish press the "Save Changes" button and then restart Arduino to changes take effect because Arduino only reads the boards information when loads.

It was tested on the Arduino 1.18.10 version.

To compile you need BlueJ 4.1.4 or earlier (Java 8). Newer versions of Java doesn't work.

Hope this tools helps you.