Notes on using the Arduino IDE: To allow serial port locking, add your user to the dialer group: pw usermod myuser -G dialer User settings are in ~/.arduino/preferences.txt. Edit the file when the IDE is not running. Setting the launcher for help files: launcher=firefox Showing what the IDE is doing for build and upload commands (only visible if you started the IDE from a console): build.verbose=true upload.verbose=true To start the IDE: %%PREFIX%%/bin/arduino