Fixing Port Permissions for my Arduino

I recently started tinkering with my Arduino again. To upload my first sketch I used the Arduino-CLI:

arduino-cli upload -p /dev/ttyACM0 --fqbn arduino:avr:uno <MySketchName>

Unfortunately, this caused a Permission Denied Error.

The Fix

To use the serial port, a user has to be a member of the dialout group. The fix on most Linux distributions is to add the user to the group via:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout <username>

On NixOS

As a NixOS however, I had to adjust my configuration:

users.users.fbull = {
  isNormalUser = true;
  description = "fbull";
  extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" "wheel" "video" "docker" "audio" "dialout" ];
  shell = pkgs.zsh;
};