Blank PIO Home tab

PlatformIO IDE
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My PIO Home tab is blank (empty of all content).

Environment
My PIO project resides on a Raspberry Pi 5 (RPi5) running the 64-bit version of Bookworm and is accessed remotely via Visual Studio Code (VSC) on MacOS 15.6.

Known

  • It used to work and then quit for an unknown reason at unknown time
  • Clicking the “Open” item under the “PIO Home” displays a blank tab
  • The PIO Home tab displays normally if I VNC from MacOS into the RPi5 and run VSC with PIO there (i.e. failure only occurs using VSC remote access)
  • The PIO Home tab displays normally on MacOS
  • Executing the “pio home” command in terminal on MacOS displays normally on MacOS

What I’ve Tried

  • Apt update/upgrade everything and reboot the RPi5
  • Apt reinstall python3 and pip on RPi5
  • Apt reinstall VSC (code) on RPi5
  • Uninstall/Install PIO extension locally on both MacOS and the RPi5
  • Profuse swearing :flushed:
  • On MacOS: Move VSC to trash, download and setup VSC with extensions. On RPi5, apt uninstall VSC, rm -fr .platformio, and apt reinstall python3-venv. PIO Home tab remains blank. :frowning:
  • On RPi5: Chromium browsing http://127.0.0.1:8008/ displays a PIO Home page

Any ideas for what else to try? :thinking:

2

So when you Install Shell Commands and, with VSCode and everything else closed, execute

pio home

on the commandline, what’s the output?

3

Accessing the RPi5 using VNC from MacOS, the “pio home” command on the RPi5 bash command-line brings up chromium and displays the PIO Home page with my recent projects at the bottom of the window.

Executing Visual Studio Code locally on the RPi5 and opening a PlatformIO project there displays the PIO Home page correctly.

The failure only occurs when I access the RPi5 PlatformIO project remotely from Visual Studio on MacOS.

The RPi5 PlatformIO project builds successfully when accessed remotely from Visual Studio on MacOS.

Curiouser and curiouser… :thinking:

4

And how do you do that? What buttons do you use or what commands do you use? As I understand PIO Remote, it’s only used for pushing projects to a remote host and compiling, uploading or monitoring them there. I’ve never seen the PIO Home page being accessed remotely via PIO Remote.

5

Oh, you are so right (I “knew” this was going to end in some form of “my bad”;). Remoting has worked so transparently that I neglected to consider the PIO Home tab may only be functional on local, not remote, projects. :flushed: