Was following a tutorial to update the Marlin firmware on new printer I just got. Everything going fine until got to step about installing PlatformIO extension, then the Auto Build Marlin extension. I think I inflicted this on myself but end result is PlatformIO is broken and has me dead in my track…

And we’re in business! :smiley: So, installing the older version caused VSC to prompt it does not know where Python is. Odd me thinks. Python is installed and visible in cmd python --version. I check path though and it’s not in path. I had installed Python 3.9.7 from the MS store and it placed it …

PlatformIO extension seems corrupt

PlatformIO IDE

maxgerhardt October 4, 2021, 4:21pm 8

But this Microsoft Python problem is known since ages at e.g. Failed to install PlatformIO IDE New - #2 by maxgerhardt. But if the older extension was to at least find the path then I guess there’s some regression