Visual Studio Code + Platformio - Installed, and I cannot create a project.

Question

I installed VSC, then PlatformIO. I seem to have VSC installed, but I don't know how to create a new project.
According to this description: Quick Start I should have an icon with a house (PlatformIO Home) in the bottom left corner. In my case, nothing like that appears.
What is wrong?

khoam · Answer

. Is PlatformIO IDE listed in Extensions as installed? .

sq9etc · Answer

Exactly right. It shows up as installed, I'm just missing that house icon on the bottom bar.

khoam · Answer

A strange thing, but the same functionality can be achieved by selecting the PIO icon on the left sidebar and then 'Open' in the menu. .

sq9etc · Answer

In my case, the icon is not there. This is what it looks like: . I think I will uninstall the extension, then VSC and try again to install everything one by one.

khoam · Answer

. After the de-installation you have to restart VSC. During the re-installation of the PlatformIO IDE, messages may appear in the VSC console window about possible problems.

sq9etc · Answer

I uninstalled, reinstalled. PIO Home appeared, but only once. I imported the project from this topic Link . It imported with errors about header files. Then PIO Home disappeared somewhere. The extension is visible as installed.

Now it has reappeared. I don't understand any of this, it runs when it wants to.

khoam · Answer

What does the platform.ini file look like in this imported project?

sq9etc · Answer

. Code: text Expand Select all Copy to clipboard[env:esp07] platform = espressif8266 board = esp07 framework = arduino lib_extra_dirs = ~/Documents/Arduino/libraries .

khoam · Answer

These lib_extra_dirs are unlikely to be needed. You can directly install the libraries you need from PIO Home => Libraries. It is also worth seeing what such a sample project looks like:

sq9etc · Answer

OK. Only this PIO Home rarely appears to me in Visual Studio Code. Here's the problem. It has only appeared to me 2 times, and most of the time it is not there.

khoam · Answer

. This is what I don't understand. During a session with VSC does it disappear and reappear? Or is it just that after VSC reboots once it is there and once it is not.

sq9etc · Answer

. During a session it doesn't seem to have disappeared for me yet, but after a restart it hasn't. It has appeared 2 times so far, but with a long delay after starting VSC.

khoam · Answer

. This can happen if the last PIO installation did not complete correctly, and you restarted VSC before the console message to restart VSC appeared.

Slawek K. · Answer

This icon appears with a slight delay after starting the VSC, simply the module loads and it takes a while, depending on the computer, if it is weak it may take longer. Best regards

sq9etc · Answer

. Perhaps. But if I see a message that the installation was successful, then I guess I can assume it is:) . . I noticed this, but waited over an hour for the extension to run. I may try again to uninstall everything one at a time and remove the leftovers from the disk. Then one last try.

Slawek K. · Answer

Also remember to remove the following two directories from the user directory you are working on : . Best regards

sq9etc · Answer

Thank you all for your help, but I have had enough for now. I installed Atom from PlatformIO and there everything laughs from the first shot. I am not closing the topic yet.

khoam · Answer

. There will be no big differences, even in appearance .

Rybex · Answer

Topic probably out of date but I had a similar issue a while ago.
It turned out that the PIO extension was deemed unsafe and therefore globally disabled.
I clicked on it in the Extensions window/list and there was this shield icon. After another click on the shield in the main window I could click to trust PIO. And now it works.

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