Arduino IDE not seeing Itsy Bitsy

[VE6TL]

Hi,

Just picked up an Itsy Bitsy and tried to follow the Adafruit instructions to identify the board in the Arduino IDE V1.8.14 - Boards Manager. Selected "Contributed" and it isn't listed at all. What to do?

Thanks

Jerry VE6TL

[blnkjns]

Double-tap reset?

[VE6TL]

Tried the reset. Arduino's IDE returns (from "Get Board Info"): BN: Unknown board, VID: 239A, PID: 800E.

[adafruit_support_carter]

Which specific Itsy are you using? 32u4, M0, etc?

[VE6TL]

Found the problem. I didn't have the Arduino IDE preferences set to the additional website for Adafruit hardware. No wonder it wasn't in the boards list.

[adafruit_support_carter]

Cool. Yah, for the SAMD boards you have to install both the Arduino SAMD and Adafruit SAMD packages, which can be confusing. Glad you figure it out. Have fun!