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:

  platformio-vscode-ide/src/home.js

  Lines 158 to 162 in 69bfc19

  	<iframe src="${pioNodeHelpers.home.getFrontendUrl({
  	start: startUrl,
  	theme,
  	workspace: extension.getEnterpriseSetting('defaultPIOHomeWorkspace'),
  	})}"

• 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?