Arduino CLI

Arduino CLI is an all-in-one solution that provides Boards/Library Managers, sketch builder, board detection, uploader, and many other tools needed to use any Arduino compatible board and platform from command line or machine interfaces.

In addition to being a standalone tool, Arduino CLI is the heart of all official Arduino development software (Arduino IDE, Arduino Web Editor). Parts of this documentation apply to those tools as well.

Installation

You have several options to install the latest version of the Arduino CLI on your system, see the installation page.

Getting started

Follow the Getting started guide to see how to use the most common CLI commands available.

Using the gRPC interface

The client_example folder contains a sample program that shows how to use the gRPC interface of the CLI. Available services and messages are detailed in the gRPC reference pages.

Versioning and backward compatibility policy

This software is currently under active development: anything can change at any time, API and UI must be considered unstable until we release version 1.0.0. For more information see our versioning and backward compatibility policy.