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| Posted: 10:25am 01 Feb 2025 |
I'm trying to set up VS Code, on Windows 11, with Raspberry Pi Pico extension.
Initially, to get it working, I'm attempting to duplicate any of the simple example projects provided.
The first problem I hit, which took me a while to work out what was going on, was that nowhere in the Setting up your Pico documents does it bother to mention that you have to manually install Git on your PC, if you've never used it before, the documentation implies that VSCode comes complete, on Windows. :-(
Now my current problem, it won't now download the Python or SDK required, I believe this is a one off download & doesn't need to be repeated for every project. Sometimes I see it start the Python download, but it never finishes, so has never got to download the SDK. Hunting through interweb, it seems I might need a GitHub Personal access token, because I may? be being bandwidth limited, (this came from raspberry pi own vscode GitHub page) though it's only me on this connection, (I am using Internet over mobile broadband, which may be upsetting it?) Anyway I have created a GitHub personal access token & copy/pasted it into the 'Raspberry-pi-pico: Github token' box in the Raspberry Pi Pico extension settings, I have found ZERO information on what I'm meant to do otherwise with this token?
This has made no difference, I still see the Python download start, get about half or two thirds of the way, then nothing, just stops. I do get an error in the developer tools window '[raspberry-pi.raspberry-pi-pico] the server aborted pending request'?
I have managed to get it all working on a Pi4 setup, but I did have the same downloading problems, though with that, after about 30 attempts it did eventually download the Python stuff, & eventually the SDK, but it was painful in the extreme.
Any experts out there able to assist?
Thanks in advance. Kevin.
Edited 2025-02-01 20:33 by Bleep