how to modify a custom board after creation

Hi, Priyanka

I followed the guide and copy, paste and modified a board under Zephyr tree to be my Fanstel one, and LEDs and Buttons are now working. This is much easier than create a custom board outside Zephyr tree as the video tutorial  does, but it doesn't have an complete example to run through, so a bit misleading as the later part might be hard.

Now my question is , may I manually copy the custom board I put under Zephyr tree to be somewhere else outside the tree and will it be still recognised by VS Code? I want to leave the Zephyr tree alone.

Regards!

Ping

Hi, Priyanka

I followed the guide and copy, paste and modified a board under Zephyr tree to be my Fanstel one, and LEDs and Buttons are now working. This is much easier than create a custom board outside Zephyr tree as the video tutorial  does, but it doesn't have an complete example to run through, so a bit misleading as the later part might be hard.

Now my question is , may I manually copy the custom board I put under Zephyr tree to be somewhere else outside the tree and will it be still recognised by VS Code? I want to leave the Zephyr tree alone.

Regards!

Ping

Hi,

I believe this is possible. Did you refer to this video tutorial? It shows how the custom development works in VS Code too.

-Priyanka

Thanks for reply, Priyanka

It looks like VS Code is only used as an editor here, not use as IDE etc. like build, create a particular build for a board, and flash etc. 

But I noticed it needs to change the cMakeLists.txt if the board file is outside the tree, - adding an APPEND etc. 

And I am fully use VS code for now, and it requires my own project outside of Zephyr tree, so the west tool won't work there - not sure how to set this? is there a way to let west tool work in my own project folder? - outside the nrf connect installation.

The video I referred is here - https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Development-tools/nRF-Connect-for-VS-Code/Tutorials, it create board at custom location, the author modified a few LEDs in .dts file, but did not go through other important changes it needs to let the custom LED working, and I found that it only works when I don't need to use any board specific features like LEDs etc. A bit misleading as I spent ages try to do it that way.

Regards!

Ping 

Hi,

You can check this link for setting west tool to your project folder. You can also run the file v1.9.0\toolchain\cmd\env.cmd from the command line that you are going to use.

-Priyanka