Visual Studio Code extension for hepiaLight2

Welcome to the Visual Studio Code extension for hepiaLight2 ! The hepiaLight2 extension makes it easy to run, deploy and debug your application in Visual Studio Code. This extension allows you also to update your hepialight's firmware to the latest version so you can use the newest functions to program your board.

Features

• Run opened python file on hepialight's interpreter
• Upload opened file to hepialight's main file
• Update hepialight to the latest firmware version

Keybindings

• hepiaLight2: Run Cmd + Shift + R or Ctrl + Shift + R
• hepiaLight2: Upload Cmd + Shift + S or Ctrl + Shift + S

Credits

This application relies heavily on pymakr (by pycom) to handle the compilation of serialport to any platform.

Known issues

Error: Permission denied, cannot open /dev/ttyACM0

Be sure to add your user to the device group.

To check the device group execute ls -al /dev/tty*

Example under Ubuntu:

ls -al /dev/ttyACM0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 166, 0 Nov  2 16:17 /dev/ttyACM0

In the example above the group is dialout.

To add your user to the group, execute:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

Error: Device or resource busy, cannot open /dev/ttyACM0

In Linux, (ModemManager will try to comunicate)[https://bugs.launchpad.net/modemmanager/+bug/700261] with the HepiaLight board when connected. Please wait 10-15s after pluging the card to compensate for this.

Optionally, you can prevent ModemManager from communicating with the board. To do this, copy the the udev rules file udevrules/99-hepialight.rules into /etc/udev/rules.d.

Apply these changes by running:

udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger