BIGTREETECH-SKR-mini-E3 VS platformio-vscode-ide

Last week I ugraded the mainboard to a BTT SKR mini E3 v3.0, and I just used the "firmware-USB.bin" from the GitHub page to flash that board, and I updated the pin names on the printer.cfg for my printer using the example on that same GitHub page. Everything is working well, the printer in producing good parts like it did before.

I went with this following the findings in this thread https://github.com/bigtreetech/BIGTREETECH-SKR-mini-E3/issues/658

Disconnect 2 wires and hook it up to the Z-stop. Will probe, but it hovers about 25mm off the bed even when the z axis is brought all the way to 0. It will not go to negative values. Tried both the BLtouch and BLtouch-for-z-homing firmwares from here(https://github.com/bigtreetech/BIGTREETECH-SKR-mini-E3/tree/master/firmware/V3.0/Marlin) but no luck

At this point I've narrowed it down to the Klipper firmware being sent over to the Mini and after it boots. Looking at BTT's github, it is included in Klipper now. So I used the build scripts there through KIAUH. Set up the information to send it over USB and it flashes without error. I tried with Serial USART1 PA10/PA9. From the printer.cfg

at some point, I was also trying to update the firmware. I have a BL touch installed at the same time so I tried to use the V3.0 Marlin firmware (https://github.com/bigtreetech/BIGTREETECH-SKR-mini-E3/blob/master/firmware/V3.0/Marlin/firmware-ender3-bltouch.bin). I have no idea if it ever updated the firmware as there was never anything indicating it was installing. I assume I put it on a microSD, and plug it into the motherboard right?

I recently made my first upgrade on my ender-3, a Bigtreetech SKR mini e3 v3. I also bought the official Creality CR touch and installed it onto my printer. I plugged the cable into the adequate spot on the board and unplugged the cable from the Z endstop switch. I then downloaded the firmware (firmware-ender3-bltouch-for-z-homing.bin) from this page: "https://github.com/bigtreetech/BIGTREETECH-SKR-mini-E3/tree/master/firmware/V3.0/Marlin" and uploaded it to my printer.

Pre-compiled firmware. (GH)

There is a workaround for PlatformIO that I use to get it to work in VSCodium: https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/issues/1...

The PlatformIO extension currently requires Microsoft's proprietary C/C++ extension, so it can't (officially) be used in the Arch community build. Here's a feature request to remove the dependency on the C/C++ extension: https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/issues/1802

There is an open issue on their repo, it seems the ms-vscode.cpptools extension which it depends on isn't open source so it can't be published on Open VSX (the marketplace used by OSS builds of VSCode) until they manage to use the open source alternative as a replacement llvm-vs-code-extensions.vscode-clangd

You might be experiencing a problem that has plagued a lot of people, which is explained in the GitHub issue report. If this is indeed the problem, there are workarounds for it. Good luck!

Thanks for the provided information. There is a reported issue https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/issues/2554 and we work on reproducing. Please follow issue #2554.

I'm trying to install platformio on vscode, but I keep getting this error: Could not start PIO Home server: Error: timeout . It leads you this github page where you are prompted to open the PlatformIO IDE Terminal, but no matter which terminal I open (powershell, cmd, bash) the command is not recognised. What should I do?