How to Program Arduino in VSCode (Using Platform.io)

[@hundredvisionsguy]

I too love VS Code, and I'm so happy you posted this. This will help my students. Thanks.

[@johncrunk8038]

i use this every several months and forget how to set it up. Thanks!

[@nqaiser]

I love The way you talk and explain, absolutely clear and well explained. Thanks for the effort.

[@dazecm]

This is by far the most pain-free extension to using VS Code with Arduino. I tried the Microsoft one but it's extremely crude and limited at the moment with the Issues feedback list showing solutions to problems is to revert to earlier versions. Not the kind of experience beginners to Arduino coding will want to go through :)

[@Omgtired]

I was like 20 minutes prior to struggling with Microsoft extension as an inexperienced arduino developer before this vid)

[@EldonElledge]

This was a pretty quick, easy to follow, to the point video. Thank you very much.

[@DinujaP]

i hate coding in arduino IDE now i can do that in VS CODE ! BIG Thanks to you

[@aront6465]

Thank you very much for this video I was struggling with editing my code with vs code then opening arduino ide to upload my code after every save... Awesome!!

[@labscience8271]

Quick, straight to the point and easy. Thank you!

[@GaryParkin]

This is amazing! I use VS Code for work and hated the Arduino UI. Thank you for the video, I can't wait to try this. IntelliSense is back! :)

[@kenburnett]

Thank you for the great video. I can't wait to try this as I love working in VSCode.

[@davidfont2596]

First, Thumbs up for NOT having an Indian accent that is so thick that not even Google's closed caption system can understand it. Second, I think that the auto detect was also pretty awesome.

[@hypocampus4404]

Thank you very much. I wanted to switch to a better program from the very beginning and this made it very easy for me.

[@mariosmichael5116]

Thanks a lot man without your help I would be spend a million years to make my project works!!! Thanks again 💖💖💖

[@toastrecon]

Cool! Just followed your instructions, and got things blinking. Thanks!

[@AlexisHopeBambii]

Mind = Blown. I'm excited to check this out! I've been wanting a way to work with cpp directly & ardunio.

[@rohitchaturvedi3878]

Tip: If you have kaspersky internet security installed, disable it before installation. otherwise installation will fail.

[@douglasjapitana4981]

ty so much for this! i wont forget any arduino commands anymore.

[@claudiotalle6821]

Concise, straightforward video and very helpful. One thing I didn't grasp fully, why do we have to install Arduino IDE first?

[@webforder4201]

It runs the actual code you are doing, on that.

[@Cscuile]

Thank you! You are great at explaining things!

[@mr.mythoclast4451]

How about existing arduino librarys to work with?

[@madshannilhedensted2440]

Did you ever find a way to do this?

[@infera1]

Love this channels work, thank you

[@TWFDeadzoneII]

Awesome video! Now i could code with all of my cool add-ons ;)

[@ragder13]

What Theme are you using in VS code?, great video

[@3D_Printing]

I used to see Platform.io but it seems to have vanished. VS suggest it is still installed but no icon in VS is shown

[@Omgtired]

Great video! Everything on point. Subscribed

[@CuriousScribbles]

Awesome video bro. Much appreciated.

[@sleipnirish1]

Cannot find Arduino IDE. Please specify the "arduino.path" in the User Settings. Requires a restart after change.

[@nightrook5732]

After installing this I can't build any python projects How do I uninstall?

[@korrupted80]

Very nice tutorial. Please make more on arduino. Thanks.

[@sabinbaral4132]

very quick and useful video but you not indenting the code made me feel so horrible fr

[@neilbarnett3046]

This is going to sound hyper-critical, but, well, the icons are different, there was a Welcome tab open, then PlatformIO didn't want me to restart, is that a problem? Then you spoke about the Platform IO home page, while showing the Project Wizard, but not where it came from. Not that it matched anything on my screen, certainly not the icons, yours shows extensions toolbar open, I see "Explorer"... the only bit I got to match was the missing semicolon. Anyway, it worked in the end. So, now how do I open one of my existing .ino projects, especially the one with its own libraries, find the examples, or run the library manager, where are the board compile-time configuration options (I have a program with 8 libraries, I need more RAM on my ESP32, though not SPIFFS or OTA), can I make the serial console a separate window, so I can see more than 20 lines of code AND the serial console? What is .Travis. and why? Can I make the font bigger on the editor and the menus because I am no longer 25 years old? Is "Search" the same as "Find"? And why would I want to insert a cursor (ctrl-alt-uparrow)? Why does the "Add configurations" option open a file that says "Don't edit this file?" Wonderful editor, as long as you already know it and can remember a multiplicity of keyboard shortcuts. Maybe a second volume "What to do with VSC now you've got it" "We do not need to use the Arduino IDE today." I bet I do.

[@yazanaldinho4775]

Is there a Serial Plotter? If not, are there an extensions for it, or any possible other way of visualising data just like in serial plotter?

[@havehalkow]

Thank you! How about writing a command through serial?

[@TheJavaSync]

So, in PIO no need install driver of the board (ch340/ftdi) ?

[@3D_Printing]

in Arduino IDE it works but wit VSC it uploads but I do not see and blinking LED, and no serial display for me can you help. Something silly on my part

[@walterhynson2898]

Delete this crap and stick with ARDUINO IDE like I did.

[@tzgardner]

2:45 I get an error on that #include . . . command-line error: invalid macro definition: -DCM4_BINARY_START=0x08100000. I don't have the hardware available yet, does it matter in this case? If that is not the issue then I'm not sure why I get this error. Any ideas? I'm new to Arduino environment BTW.

[@JannieH]

Yes but....How do you upload an existing ***.ino ? Say a complete project downloaded with many files etc?

[@limux2201]

Hello, Is it useful for esp32 and esp8266 controllers ? Thanks

[@3D_Printing]

can you set breakpoints, watch variables, step over etc...

[@bennguyen1313]

What happens if your arduino board is not listed? I have an MKS Gen L 1.0 board (Atmega 2560), however not sure what firmware or bootloader is flashed... is there a way to auto-detect or if not, force the settings/pin-map?

[@jumbo999614]

My code require library for LiquidCrystal I2C. How do you use library?

[@Greebstreebling]

I used PIO for a while - it can be good, but currently (2023) there is no stable/ working solution for code upload to AVR4809, and support can't sort it. So I'm using JTAG2UPDI in arduino and VScode as an editor. (JTAG2UPDI does not work in PIO)

[@ofrit9981]

THIS ROCKS GOOD JOB M8 GREAT VIDEO

[@urishani]

what about migrating an arduino IDE .ino program to vsc?

[@ArjanvanVught]

Almost any other IDE is better than the Arduino IDE. Eclipse is also a very good development platform,

[@JoshStasio884]

... But how do you set the com when it doesn't auto detect. You can't mention that is mostly works and not tell us how to do it when it doesn't....

[@thesunpouncergamingchannel2654]

Does VS Code support the serial plot as well?

[@OdotRIH4KRC]

Great and str8 to the point. Thanks

[@clear426]

thank the video helped but I keep seeing this error "Update include errors " do you have any idea as to how to fix it.

[@YigalBZ]

Thanks for the tutorial. Can you show how to connect VS code to github?

[@MrNams]

How to debug?

[@pedrocosta6572]

FUCKING HELL, thank you so much, the platformIO serial visualizer is much better.

[@JeremyCook]

Great intro, thanks!

[@yashasvi9655]

Does anyone know if we can have a multiple files in src directory and choose which file to upload? or maybe have a multi-file project for maintainance reason?

[@muchamadshofiudin9393]

i am sory. i try insltall vs code and install platform IO ide but after reload platformio ide... always reload again.

[@ivankravets]

What is your OS? Could you try to reinstall the latest Python 3? See docs.platformio.org/en/latest/faq.html#install-python-interpreter

[@abhipraydumka8587]

My code is showing undefined refrence to init and delay

[@davidmarks509]

platformIO is great but not beginner friendly. Going to need to do lots of learning to get started with it

[@undercrackers56]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@MUDMAD83]

Everytime I use platform io it's not stable

[@partouelectric2353]

I wonder why most tutorials so not say anything about the hardware. Are you programing with ST Link or USB ??

[@Mister_P1999]

Does it need to install python? It prompted me to install Python after I installed Platform IDE on VSCode.

[@M4CHINE69]

No

[@Kamil-kg2ku]

Does this work with python?

[@brentroberson7211]

how do you download libraries to use in this IDE?

[@MakeUseOf]

Just put them in the standard Arduino libraries location. There's no built-in libraries browser, but you don't need it anyway - they're just zip files that you unzip to Arduino/libraries folder.

[@gfk471]

and how to include libraries???

[@aaronmorgan2475]

does anyone know if you can use this for python?

You don't need to install Arduino IDE.

[@mav29]

great squicky clean 7mins thx mate

[@maceeiko]

3:08 It's already defined as LED_BUILTIN

[@MakeUseOf]

It is nowadays, though it wasn't always. :)

[@allTimeFavorite]

Great video!!

[@elefantopia]

thank you!

[@morbaxmorbax6963]

Thanks 👍

[@alexandrtcacenco8129]

...before opening IO homepage (1:31) . This just doesn't happen.

[@santiagorosero4652]

AWSOME BRO !!!

[@engineer_nyasha]

That's what I'm talking about !

[@aadityapaul1768]

Why did he install arduino ide then ?!!?

[@mandeepmails]

Hi, Nice and informative video. i did the test on esp8266 all ok but after that when trying to use some github project shared by brad at github.com/bradc87/GarageDoorSensor it gives me this error. have been trying to figure it out but not sure why it's getting failed. Getting this error [screenshot] i.postimg.cc/rFC5j30L/Screenshot-2020-09-25-at-2-58-18-AM.png could you please guide what's wrong. Thanks.

[@MakeUseOf]

I can see from your sidebar that shows directory structure that the folder it's asking for (/include) just doesn't exist in your project. That Git project you pulled from is just broken, seems completely unfinished.

[@nickbanderson]

life changer

[@lebowski1980]

Thank you.

[@s.sradon9782]

why won't arduino include such features into their IDE? this irritates me since my school won't use visual studi0o code because they are paying for yenka (which only does flowcharts lol) and translates them into pbasic. yeah... my school's "programming" classes teach pbasic in flowcharts & copy pasting from Arduino IDE's examples library since python is such a difficult language to learn. we occasionally do scratch in my high school too!

[@DaleDix]

We can understand it, but can you imagine all that stuff coming up when kids are trying to do a blink sketch or make an led say something?

[@gabiold]

@@DaleDix Learning (and teaching) is not about artifically preventing problems to come forward, but trying to understand them when they do. Having a primitive IDE without the possibility of advanced stuff, and which does things for you in the phylosphy of "you shouldn't have to know that", is just limiting you, and it is not quite the most effective learning method for an open-minded person... I started embedded development on bare metal when Arduino wasn't existed, and I always felt constrained every time I had to touch an Arduino project.

[@user-dn2ec7zx8o]

Thank you very very much

[@Chemy.]

It looks pretty easy until you sir to do it and miss a ; hahaha

[@davidclintonakpalu9863]

I like it thank you

[@madshannilhedensted2440]

How can I add a library like the neopixel.h?? github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_NeoPixel

[@ikothsowe]

Very useful, but please slow down! The hurried delivery almost made me feel panicky.

[@JohnAnderson-ge8gg]

Yes - Same comment from me! Luckily I'm half Irish, so managed it, but then found the tutorial a great help in getting started with PlatformIO..

[@thehomeschooldev6126]

#IoT #Thehomeschooldev Thank you this helps out a lot!

[@doncollins6795]

Man, i really loved Arduino platform but the worst part of it was the IDE... it is super shitty...

[@zhuk462]

Quite outdated tutorial. Impossible to follow... (((

[@christopherridgway29]

What a terrible plugin. Almost all my libraries are erroring and my project. >_>

[@johnmiller8553]

You words are rapid fire, but you streamline the excess verbage and get straight to the point. I went with PlatformIO because of your video instead of some of the other extensions because I couldn't find any support as straight forward and succint as yours.

[@nazolon]

Thank you!

[@doncollins6795]

Man, i really loved Arduino platform but the worst part of it was the IDE... it is super shitty...