Using portable PlatformIO IDE Offline (Windows, VSCode)

PlatformIO IDE
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Hi,

I am trying to use PlatformIO with the portable version of Visual Studio Code. I enabled portable mode in VSCode and want to install PlatformIO for portable use.

I cannot install the PlatformIO extension on the target PC directly because I have restricted internet access via a proxy, so the PlatformIO Core installation fails:

Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', error('Tunnel connection failed: 407 Proxy Authentication Required',))': /simple/platformio/

Is it possible to install PlatformIO IDE on a different machine with full internet access on my portable VSCode version? Do I have to copy the %HOMEPATH%\.platformio folder? Does it matter that the user names differ on the two machines?

Or could I someone set the proxy settings? (I would prefer to manually copy files and not to do that, if possible and necessary).

Thank you

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I’d like to be able to do the same, but according to this topic, it seems like it’s not possible just yet.

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I had the same problem, trying to make VSCode + PIO + Frameworks + libaries etc. portable, so I could distribute it to other machines which then can use it without the need to download or setup anything. My solution was a VM. VSCode + PIO works on an Arch Linux VM with xfce4 with just 2 cores and 1GB of RAM (so on pretty much any machine) and can easily be distibuted without the need of any further setup.

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