Too slow to create a new project

PlatformIO IDE
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I am an engineer in China .When I create a new project using the platformIO, the program stuck and told me to wait for moment.shown as fellow.

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I waited for hours but the program didn’t continue running.
the board I used is the Arduino nano 33 ble sense
the default framework is arduino
Someone said I should change to the Agents library, cause download the modules from the default library in China is extremely slow but I don’ t know how . Do anyone know what cause the problem and how to solve it?

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Well let’s see if you can get to see progress first.

Please open a PIO CLI and execute

mkdir ble_test
cd ble_test
pio init -b nano33ble
pio run

Does that have some progress indicators?

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the progress indicated like this

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This is good, showing it worked. All packages are there, there’s just no code.

You can use PIO Home and the “Open Project” button to just open the project at C:\Users\james\ble_test now. Then you must add a file in src\main.cpp and fill it with some code, e.g.

#include <Arduino.h>
void setup() { pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT); }
void loop() { 
    digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, HIGH);
    delay(500);
    digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, LOW);
    delay(500);
}

(untested)

and then build.

If building fails, please post an error message. There might be corrupted downloaded packages, in which case they should be removed from C:\Users\james\.platformio\packages\<package> to force a redownload.

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thanks a lot ! it works !!!
I opened this project and add a new file named "mian.cpp " with the code .Then I built the program and upload the file to my arduino.

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This way should work but the program still stuck when I try to use the window interface to create a new project. Can I fix that too ?

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Hmm I don’t why the PIO Home screen is so buggy for you.

Can you show the contents of Help -> Toggle Developer Tools -> Console to check if there are any logged errors?

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something like this

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Hm I don’t see anything too sketchy in there.

If in doubt, make sure that the only installed VSCode extension are PlatformIO (v.2.2.1) and C/C++ by Microsoft (v1.1.3). You may also try to temporarily disable your antivirus software.

A full PlatformIO re-install can be done by first removing the VSCode extension, closing VSCode, then removing the folder C:\Users\<user>\.platformio, and installing the VSCode extension again.

If none of that helps, please file an issue in Issues · platformio/platformio-vscode-ide · GitHub to get help and link to this thread.

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I had run into the same problem, which was resolved when I removed the other extensions.

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I’m also facing the same issue. PlatformIO on VSCode on windows10.

Any fix would be highly appreciated.

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:cold_face:

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hello, it will sound trivial, but for real, the thing that helped me was just let it be and do not do anything else on computer. Before I thought that problem is with my slow computer, so i was using time until the new project is created to do something else but the initialization couldnt get finished. So i just started a new project and didnt do anything else and like a magic, it only took few minutes.

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It works… Thanks a lot.
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