Made "Set Fuses" and "Upload and Set Fuses" toolbar commands

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TLDR: made “Set Fuses”, “Upload, Build, and Set Fuses”, and “Upload w/o Build, and Set Fuses” toolbar buttons, code is below :slightly_smiling_face:

I kept running into issues with fuses, sometimes forgetting to set them, assuming they’d been set but didn’t, irksome lil things like that - especially on my current project, where I’m disabling the reset pin on an ATtiny85 and thus have to reset my fuses a LOT.

So (with help from this github comment and this forum post and a whooole lotta googling) I made a button for the VSCode PIO toolbar to upload your program and set fuses. I also made one just for setting fuses, cuz navigating to PlatformIO Sidebar > Project Tasks > Platform > Set Fuses takes eleven seconds too many :wink: (edit: also added “Upload without Build and Set Fuses”, kudos to this post)

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Just wanted to share! I’ve also made a gist because I’ll 100% hit this issue again someday and forget about this post. Here ya go :heart:

Code for settings.json

It’s just the upload and fuses commands, one after the other. The only really notable parts are the ; to stagger commands and auto-detecting the currently active environment.

[ ... the rest of settings.json above ... ]

      "platformio-ide.toolbar": [

      [ ... other toolbar commands ... ]

        {
            "text": "$(flame)",
            "tooltip": "PlatformIO: Set Fuses",
            "commands": [
                {
                    "id": "platformio-ide.runPIOCoreCommand",
                    "args": "pio run -t fuses -e ${command:platformio-ide.activeEnvironment}"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "text": "$(rocket)",
            "tooltip": "PlatformIO: Upload, Build, and Set Fuses",
            "commands": [
                {
                    "id": "platformio-ide.runPIOCoreCommand",
                    "args": "pio run -t upload -e ${command:platformio-ide.activeEnvironment}; Write-Host ''; Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow '   > > > PROJECT BUILT AND UPLOADED, SETTING FUSES, PLEASE WAIT... < < <   '; Write-Host ''; pio run -t fuses -e ${command:platformio-ide.activeEnvironment}"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "text": "$(zap)",
            "tooltip": "PlatformIO: Upload w/o Build, and Set Fuses",
            "commands": [
                {
                    "id": "platformio-ide.runPIOCoreCommand",
                    "args": "pio run -t nobuild -t upload -e ${command:platformio-ide.activeEnvironment}; Write-Host ''; Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow '   > > > PROJECT BUILT AND UPLOADED, SETTING FUSES, PLEASE WAIT... < < <   '; Write-Host ''; pio run -t fuses -e ${command:platformio-ide.activeEnvironment}"
                }
            ]
        },

      [ ... other toolbar commands ... ]

      ],

[ ... the rest of settings.json below ... ]

Setup

Easy enough, in VSCode go to Settings > Extensions > PlatformIO IDE, and under Toolbar, hit Edit in settings.json. Then just paste the above into the list of menu commands as you see fit :slightly_smiling_face: I positioned them right after the default Upload button. Note that their position didn’t update until I restarted VSCode (aka relaunched the PIO extension).

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(why yes I am procrastinating work by writing an exhaustively thorough tutorial for a very basic CLI command UI, don’t judge me)

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