You also need to install the VS Code Remote - SSH extension. Remote Development with Visual Studio Codeįor remote development to work in VS Code, you need to be able to SSH into your Raspberry, or other remote machine, using ssh in a command prompt (Windows) / terminal (Linux). With the nascent Arduino CLI you can even largely replace the Arduino IDE for developing Arduino sketches on RPi and pushing them to a connected Arduino. Remote development solves this by allowing you to code on your desktop / laptop and run it externally on a host (like the RPi). Still, I found developing code on it to be uncomfortable and sometimes cumbersome, as some IDEs don't support ARM processors whereas others like Thonny are rather basic. I have been a fan of the Raspberry Pi single board computer for a number of years now, and have used quite a number of them in my desktop single board computer cluster and my developing Raspberry/Arduino robot car. In this short note I will summarize how I can happily use Visual Studio Code on my local Windows desktop or laptop to do remote development on a Raspberry Pi or another Linux machine, and even push Arduino sketches from the Raspberry to an Arduino without touching the Arduino IDE.

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