Visual Studio Code

How to setup and configure Visual Studio Code with PlatformIO for Tasmota compilation and upload.

Easy way (only Windows): Portable install of Visual Studio Code for Tasmota~

Download the ready made Portable Installation of VSC/PlatformIO and extract the ZIP to a folder or a fast extern drive.
Grab Tasmota unpack and Start VS Code.exe (in folder VSC)

Full Install (Windows, Linux and Mac)~

Download and Install Visual Studio Code~

Download Visual Studio Code (VSC) from https://code.visualstudio.com/

Install PlatformIO Extension~

Install the PlatformIO IDE extension in VSC.

Select View - Extensions and type PlatformIO in the search box.

Make sure to select the official PlatformIO.org PlatformIO IDE extension and select Install. Accept to install dependencies. To install on Linux, it is essential to first have the python3-venv package installed on your system.

Download Tasmota~

Download the latest Tasmota version from https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota and unzip to a known folder.

Compile Tasmota~

Start VSC and select File - Open Folder... the folder with the unzipped Tasmota files

Note: Press Ctrl + Shift + P and type PlatformIO to see all options.

Select the desired firmware via VSC menu.

Easy compilation can be performed from the icons at the bottom of the VSC screen.

Upload Tasmota~

Optional: Enable desired options in platformio_override.ini for serial upload like:

upload_port = COM5
;upload_speed = 512000
upload_speed = 115200

Easy compilation and upload can be performed from the icons at the bottom of the VSC screen or use Ctrl + Alt + U to upload (will build if needed).

Hint:~

In case vscode shows a huge amount of errors using PlatformIO - Intellisense a possible "solution" is to change the cpp-Intelli Sense Engine type to "TAG PARSER"

This setting can be changed in workspace settings by: Use Ctrl + Shift + P and type Preferences: Open Workspace Settings and type intelli Sense in the search box. Now change the value for Intelli Sense Engine to Tag Parser.