Ok managed to solve this eventually. Seems this only works with native java se. You cannot do this with maven. The moment you create new project maven -> java, that platform option disappears.
Kind Regards Ben > On 14 Nov 2018, at 06:27, Ben Fourie <craft...@icloud.com.INVALID> wrote: > > Hi everyone > > I’m new to this list and thought i will introduce myself first. > I’m a java backend dev during the day for the leading healthcare insurance > company in South Africa. Discovery. > I’m also a hobbyist and program my raspberry pies with netbeans. > > And in that, I ran into a problem. > The reason I chose Netbeans as the ide for my hobby side, is because it > natively supports remote debugging. It worked very well. > I setup a remote platform, and it tested okey. > > Ran a few spike programs, all worked great. So I click run on my mac, and the > code runs on the pi. Perfect. > > But that stopped working. :( > > I uninstalled netbeans, and reinstalled 8.2 from a fresh download. > Problem persists. In project properties, under the run tab, I no longer have > a dropdown for remote platform. Remote platform is configured and tested ok. > I gave the raspberry pi a static ip. > > I followed these instructions which worked before: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnMU9lD10G4 > > In there, the run tab looks something like this: > > <image1.jpeg> > > As you can see, it’s easy to just select another platform. Ie the one > configured for the remote raspberry pi. > > However, my screen looks like this now. > > > > I no longer have the option to select the remote, or any other platform. > > Has anyone experienced something like this? > > Kind regards > Ben Fourie > >