I’ve got a problem with getting the Platformio IDE loaded in to vscode on my desktop, I’ve had it setup on my laptop for a while so i’m somewhat familiar with the steps to get to working.
Installed VSCode, then extensions > platformio > install.
I now get the options to uninstall or disable the addin so it looks like it’s worked however the alien head icon does not appear in my left toolbar or the bottom status bar, the .platformio folder is never created in my homedir.
I’ve tried uninstalling vscode then manually deleting the left over folders:
%LocalAppData%\Programs\Microsoft VS Code
%AppData%\Code
%UserProfile%.vscode
Then going through the install process again however the result is the same, I can never get the alien head icon to load.
There is a ‘DeprecationWarning: Buffer()’ in my console output but I’m not knowledgeable enough to know if it’s related.
The log saysd “Git installation not found”, but I don’t recall that being a mandatory component for PlatformIO… But it also can’t hurt to install it. Please download it from Git - Downloads, install it and restart VSCode. If it still fails to start, uninstall and reinstall the PlatformIO extension.
Thanks for the suggestion. Initially installing git made no difference but I then did a full re-install of vscode and installed platformio addon. This time it worked properly, the icon was showing in the left toolbar and I now have a .platformio folder.
After closing and re-opening vscode the alien head icon is missing from the toolbar again and the only errors in the console are the DeprecationWarning ones.
I can run ‘pio home’ from a command prompt outside of VScode and it loads in a normal browser window, the IDE just won’t load in vscode!
Well that looks pretty good. PlatformIO definitely does not just disable itself after starting up exactly once. I also notice that in this extion view, there is no “x ms” text in the upper right corner of the PIO extension, in contrast to the C/C++ extension. This is the startup-time of the extension. So, PlatformIO didn’t even attempt to start.
Can you click on the cogwheel in the PlatformIO extension and make sure that “Activate only on PlatformIO Project” is disabled so that it will always attempt to start? Restart VSCode thereafter.
