platformio-vscode-ide VS PlatformIO

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!

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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?

For the ESP32 in read mode, we've successfully developed a project using PlatformIO that accepts the key during build time and stores it in memory.

Check out Zephyr OS and Platform IO. Zephyr is part of the Linux foundation and has similarities to Linux with how it performs hardware abstraction (device tree). Platform IO integrates with other frameworks including mbed and Arduino.

PlatformIO together with avr-stub can be used to do source level debugging but there are some caveats.

Look into https://platformio.org/, it can abstract over a few RTOSes, and can show you which OSes work with which chips/boards.

If the HW looks like it works, you could also try alternate programming software. (e.g. TinyGo or PlatformIO)

You might have better luck with PlatformIO than the Arduino IDE; it's better at automatically choosing the serial port, though I can't say I've used it under Windows.

My other suggestion takes more work but will make your life oh so much better. Professionally I have used and highly recommend. https://platformio.org/ which is free!

Will you be doing embedded Linux? Embedded RTOS? Bare metal? Microcontrollers? SoC (say, FPGA with a hard processor core)?

You can do a lot with QEMU. https://bootlin.com/ has a lot of great, free training material.

https://bootlin.com/doc/training/embedded-linux-qemu/embedde...

is one of my favorites.

Learning to cross-compile, do embedded debugging, the process of booting an embedded system (which varies depending on the answers to the above questions), learning how to read a technical reference for the processor you’re using as well as for peripherals you’re likely to interact with - SPI, i2c, UART, maybe PCIe, are all handy skills. Learn a bit about JTAG, hardware, reading schematics, etc. Even being able solder is helpful.

There may be books (I had a great embedded Linux book when I started) but there are lots of online materials too. Check out https://platformio.org/

There are fun embedded boards and projects for microcontrollers too - micropython on an rpi pico, tinygo, eLua, etc.