Add an "upload binary to board" option in the IDE

[jerabaul29]

There is a nice feature under:

Sketch > Export compiled Binary

which allows to dump the binary of the sketch under a .bin file.

Would it be possible to also provide an "Upload compile Binary" option somewhere in the IDE, so that the users can upload their pre compiled binaries from the IDE, without the need to use yet another tool?

[per1234]

Hi @jerabaul29. Thanks for taking the time to submit this feature request.

You'll be glad to learn that this functionality is already provided by arduino-cli upload --input-file:
https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/commands/arduino-cli_upload/#options
Arduino CLI is part of the Arduino IDE 2.x installation, but you might find it more convenient to just install a standalone copy of Arduino CLI for using directly:
https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/installation/

Since uploading a pre-compiled binary is something only for advanced users, there is no need to provide a capability to do it via a GUI.

[jerabaul29]

Thanks! :)

You are the people developing the IDE and it is natural that you decide how you want it to look like, but honestly, I do not think that this is such an advanced feature. I know of some colleagues who have 0 experience with Arduino and needed to upload some binaries on a board lately. Since this was not directly available into the IDE, they used a third party software / GUI for doing that, which took them time and was a big buggy process. I think that there are quite many cases in which beginners would like to be upload just by pressing a button which would make their life much easier than finding out of how to use a command line method.