PlatformIO Terminal in VSCode-Plugin: "Command pio not found"

[maxgerhardt]

@mchahn

I just opened a powershell terminal and ran C:\Users\mlap\.platformio\penv\Scripts\pio.exe and pio came up. Will doing this give me all the features of the platformio CLI terminal?

Yes, since that’s exactly what would be called if the normal way of just opening a CLI and running pio would do.

@mchahn

In other words, why does the platformio CLI terminal exist?

Shortcut reasons. Usually you do not have to specify the entire path to pio exe, PlatformIO nicely prepares the environment in the PlatformIO CLI terminal.