RFduino Installation in Ubuntu

RFduino now support Linux and installation is straight forward.

Step1: Open terminal in ubuntu by pressing Alt+Ctrl+T

Step2: Type the following commands

cd ~
mkdir Arduino
cd Arduino
wget http://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.6.3-linux64.tar.xz
tar -xf arduino-1.6.3-linux64.tar.xz
sudo apt-get install default-jre

key in password when prompted.

No driver installation required for Ubuntu. 

Step3: Open Arduino by typing the following command

cd arduino-1.6.3
./arduino

The current version is 1.6.3. It will be different for different versions.

Step4: Select Menu File->Preference

 in the proxy settings change server to rfduino.com and keep other settings as it is and click OK.
in "Additional Board Manager URLs, add "http://rfduino.com/package_rfduino166_index.json" and click OK

Step5: Select Menu Tools->Board->Board Manager and in the window that is opened select RFduino and select install.

 It will take a while to download and install files there are 2 set of files one ~ 36MB and other ~52MB

Step6: Select Menu Tools->Board->RFduino

Step7: Select Menu Port->/dev/ttyUSB0

 USB menu item will be different in different machine.

Thats it.

Some examples can be found in Menu File->Examples section for RFduino.

Happy Programming.