Vscode opens arduino readme and example browser every time I connect an esp32

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#1

I’ve searched the documentation (and the forum), but I haven’t found an answer to an issue I’ve been having since a few weeks. Probably because I really don’t know where I should start looking: vscode, platformio extension, platformio documentation on esp32, platformio documentation on arduino platform, …

I have an esp32 project (using the arduino framework) and every time I connect my esp32 board (any esp32 board, at least I’ve tried various, with various USB drivers) vscode opens two windows: one with a readme on the Arduino framework, and another one with a browser of Arduino examples.

Very helpful for beginners, but how can I disable this behaviour?

#2

What’s the list of installed extensions in VSCode? Can you show a screenshot of how the opened windows look?

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#3

Here is a screenshot of the two windows (tabs, actually) that are opened:

screenshot

Extensions installed are:

  • Arduino 0.3.0
  • BBEdit Light theme 1.0.0
  • C/C++ 0.27.1
  • Docker 1.1.0
  • Native Debug 0.24.0
  • PlatformIO IDE 1.10.0
  • Python 2020.4.76186
  • reStructuredText 127.0.0

(and I’ve checked the settings for both Arduino and PlatformIO, obviously, but there wasn’t any option that seemed ever remotely related to this)

#4

Well, answering my own question (at least sort of): the issue seems to be the Arduino extension. I’ve disabled it and the problem is gone: I can connect USB devices to my hearts desire and no windows are opened.

So I guess I’m going to move to a setup where all my vscode extensions are disabled and per workspace I only enable the extensions I need in that workspace (so that would be only C++ and PlatformIO for this workspace).

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#5

Yup, that was definitely the problem… as those screens are nothing to do with PlatformIO.

There doesn’t seems to be a proper way to disable the readme / examples from being shown, which is quite annoying. Rather counter-intuitively, it can sort of be disabled… by disabling the whole USB auto-detection routine via the arduino.enableUSBDetection preference.