Nerves Devtools

The Nerves Devtools VSCode extension is part of the Nerves Devtools ecosystem. When paired with a Nerves device running Nerves Dev Server, this extension allows for monitoring of telemetry and remote code execution / module replacement.

Setup and usage

After installing Nerves Dev Server on one or more Nerves devices, open the Nerves Devtools pane in the VSCode activity bar or run Nerves Devtools: Add Device from the command palette. You'll be prompted for the device's ip/hostname and Nerves Dev Server port, a name/label for the device, and the auth token secret.

After adding a device, it will appear in the Nerves Devtools panel in the activity bar. From there, you can connect to the device to view telemetry and other metadata.

To upload and compile an Elixir source file on a device, run Nerves Devtools: Run on device from the command palette. Remember that mix is not available on the device, so if the module body contains any calls to Mix.env() or similar, the module will fail to compile.