Does not work in Github Codespaces

[Glavin001]

Problem

When opening PlatformIO Home:

VSCode extension appears to load from 127.0.0.1 instead of the GitHub Codespaces URL.

Solution

Check for CODESPACES=true and CODESPACE_NAME environment variables.

Applicable Code

I think this comes from:

• iframe src: https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/blob/69bfc19bae633213c6d5455b47cb22efb2dcfed4/src/home.js#L158-L162
• getFrontendUrl: https://github.com/platformio/platformio-node-helpers/blob/b2a974c350bd5cfa2b680df5fdd762dbeef9df07/src/home.js#L46-L58
• constructServerUrl: https://github.com/platformio/platformio-node-helpers/blob/b2a974c350bd5cfa2b680df5fdd762dbeef9df07/src/home.js#L33-L43
• _HTTP_HOST: https://github.com/platformio/platformio-node-helpers/blob/b2a974c350bd5cfa2b680df5fdd762dbeef9df07/src/home.js#L29

let _HTTP_HOST = '127.0.0.1';

I'll try to fork and contribute when I can. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[ivankravets]

You can change this value in settings. See screenshot below

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[pwnept]

Any updates or plans for this?

[yhur]

Hi @ivankravets

The #4431 may be slightly different from this, but may be hopefully resolved by the resolution for this issue.

For the clarification, what I did was

1. installed the code-server on RPi
2. Downloaded the PIO from marketplace and uploaded to RPi
3. Accessed the code-server with Safari
4. Installed the PIO manually with the VSIX file
5. Restarted the code-server

And as I stated, I can use the PIO/code-server to develop for esp8266 Arduino successfully. That's great and thank you for that. This seems the core part of PIO is working.

What's missing is the PIO Home pages. I changed the HTTP_HOST to 0.0.0.0 also, but the PIO home page is not coming.

I always appreciate the work of you and your team. Thanks.

[neilenns]

I just hit this as well, and I expect others will now that Codespaces is generally available in the free tier of GitHub.

[mikethebee]

I just hit this as well, and I expect others will now that Codespaces is generally available in the free tier of GitHub.

As GitHub have been prompting me to try Codespaces/VSC and I normally use PIO locally on a separate linux box, I have just come across the this issue too. Changing host in setting times out rather than refused when using 127. on a PC within a Chrome Browser. Any suggestions?

[konkrog]

Also came across this issue trying to use PlatformIO on Github CodeSpaces... any fixes planned for this?

[ghost]

Any fixes planned for this?

[Bob2345de]

Any solutions for this?

[bilogic]

1. On my code-server's terminal, I see this process running python -m platformio -c vscode home --port 45334 --host 127.0.0.1 --session-id xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --shutdown-timeout 3600 --no-open
2. It is listening only to 127.0.0.1 of the server, but the VSCode on our client is trying to connect to the client's 127.0.0.1 and there-in lies the problem
3. @ivankravets Can the python command be configured from VSCode?

Thanks!

[bilogic]

After changing this to the process's machine's IP address, and restarting the machine, it now runs as python -m platformio -c vscode home --port 45334 --host 172.1.1.1 --session-id xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --shutdown-timeout 3600 --no-open

And now, clicking on PlatformIO's PIO Home > Open gives me a blank page instead of the error. From my client, I was able to connect to the IP and port and confirm it runs a HTTP server.

So, on my terminal, I ran pio home, and this opened up a new browser tab in my client which now shows the usual PIO Home page.

Question now is, can PIO also upload to my client's COM5: much like how ESPHome https://web.esphome.io/ is able to flash a chip via browser (Chrome)?

[bilogic]

Here are my conclusions:

1. Executing pio home runs a process like this python /home/dv1/.platformio/penv/bin/pio home and the port is automatically captured by code-server on the server and forwarded to the client, that is the reason why I was able to load the usual PIO Home page in my client's browser
2. I believe a fix is needed to get code-server to also automatically forward the port after PIO starts the python -m platformio -c vscode home --port 45334 --host 172.1.1.1 --session-id xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --shutdown-timeout 3600 --no-open process
3. As far as I can tell, PIO currently cannot upload to the client's com ports (this is a show stopper), would need to see how ESPHome does it
4. I'm not sure if codespaces/vscode.dev allow us to start a python process on their servers, so it might never be possible to run PIO there, but uploading compiled firmware to any client connecting to code-server via Chrome is likely possible