Button "Add M5Stack" suddenly disappeared

[WouterPH]

Type: Bug

Install the extension and look at the left side of the bar at the bottom of the screen. You should see #errors , # warnings and a button "Add M5Stack" as in the documentation of the extension, see screenshot:

I am working on two machines (Windows 10 and Windows 11). On both machines the option was available, but suddenly disappeared this week. In the screenshot below you can see that the extension is active and that the button is missing:

Extension version: 1.1.9 VS Code version: Code 1.78.1 (6a995c4f4cc2ced6e3237749973982e751cb0bf9, 2023-05-04T09:48:08.683Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621 Modes: Sandboxed: Yes

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13400 (16 x 2496)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: enabled| |Load (avg)|undefined| |Memory (System)|15.70GB (6.73GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id 5623efc6-fd0a-43a4-9f28-e6504dff170e| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

A/B Experiments

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[tim23x]

Also having this problem - Extension version 1.1.9 VS Code version: 1.78.2 (user setup) OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044 Sandboxed: Yes

[joelurtubia]

the same problem!! Extension version 1.1.9 Version: 1.78.2 (user setup) V8: 10.8.168.25-electron.0 OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621 Sandboxed: No

[WouterPH]

Appearently it is a compatibility problem. Uninstalling VSCode and installing a previous version worked for me.

Working configuration:

After that I disabled updating VSCode (File>Preferences>Settings):

I will leave the issure open for about a week so that anyone can share experiences. If this turns out to be an approprioate solution I will close the issue.

[RealDekkia]

If this turns out to be an approprioate solution I will close the issue.

That's not really a solution, it's a workaround at best. @curdeveryday might want to look into fixing it.

[darul75]

Sorry had also no time to look into that issue, vscode updates are very frequent and they keep changing nodejs version, I would need to refresh my mind but main file is that one https://github.com/curdeveryday/vscode-m5stack-mpy/blob/master/serialPortBindingsLoader.js it does contains all supported version.

[RealDekkia]

Ok, so I was tinkering around a bit and the pull-request I made turned out to be partly wrong. Adding 16.17.1 to nodeJSVersions in serialPortBindingsLoader.js was the only neccessary change.

But this only works when I run the extension from source. If I make the change in the version downloaded from the store, clicking on "Add M5Stack" throws an error.

[GavinBeattie]

From a fresh install I have no Add M5 button. macOS Ventura 13.5.2 | VS Code 1.83.1 | vscode-m5stack-mpy 1.1.10 • Runtime status: No status available. • Settings > Extensions > [not present or no extended details] • Show running extensions: Activating... Ideas welcome.

[agentx-cgn]

Seems now v18.15 is needed. @curdeveryday

[krgough]

I was having the problem on an M1 mac running ios version = Sonoma. I fixed it using the above comments and the following steps...

Pull the github repo and using yarn to compile as per the github readme

git clone https://github.com/curdeveryday/vscode-m5stack-mpy.git
git clean -fdX
yarn cache clean
yarn

Edit serialPortBindingsLoader.js to include 18.15.0 js version....

const copyBindings = () => {
 const nodeJSVersions = ['12.14.1', '12.18.3', '12.4.0', '12.8.1', '14.16.0', '16.13.0', '16.13.2', '16.14.2', '16.17.1', '18.15.0' ];

Install the vs code extension packaging tool... npm install -g vsce

Then created and installed the package...

vsce package
code --install-extension vscode-m5stack-mpy-1.1.10.vsix 

and now it seems to work :-)

[purplewish07]

Thank you very much, @krgough .

I followed your steps and successfully fixed this issue on Windows 10 with VS Code version 1.83.1 (user setup).

[blog2i2j]

@krgough thanks very much, it works well.

[chr0m1ng]

I was having the problem on an M1 mac running ios version = Sonoma. I fixed it using the above comments and the following steps...

Pull the github repo and using yarn to compile as per the github readme

git clone https://github.com/curdeveryday/vscode-m5stack-mpy.git
git clean -fdX
yarn cache clean
yarn

Edit serialPortBindingsLoader.js to include 18.15.0 js version....

const copyBindings = () => {
 const nodeJSVersions = ['12.14.1', '12.18.3', '12.4.0', '12.8.1', '14.16.0', '16.13.0', '16.13.2', '16.14.2', '16.17.1', '18.15.0' ];

Install the vs code extension packaging tool... npm install -g vsce

Then created and installed the package...

vsce package
code --install-extension vscode-m5stack-mpy-1.1.10.vsix 

and now it seems to work :-)

This almost worked 100% for me, the only extra thing I had to do was to run npm postinstall before vsce package to create the node_modules/...../18.5.0 files

[FyrbyAdditive]

After finding the stepper driver m5stack arduino example broken, I figured I would give vscode a go and try the micropython support, and here too I am falling at the first hurdle with this problem as this does not work on Visual Studio Code Version: 1.85.1 (Universal) Commit: 0ee08df0cf4527e40edc9aa28f4b5bd38bbff2b2 on macOS 14.2.1 (apple silicon).

[RichardD012]

So following these steps and adding the latest node (18.17.1) get the button to show up but now sending to device shows "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading'sendCommand')