ThermoWorks for VS Code

Display real-time temperatures from your ThermoWorks connected devices (Smoke, Signals, Node, etc.) directly in the VS Code status bar and side panel.

Features

• 🔥 Status Bar Temperature — See live readings at a glance
• 📋 Device Panel — Full tree view with all devices, channels, battery, and firmware info
• 📈 Live Temperature Chart — Full-session history with a live tail and alarm threshold lines
• 🚨 Alarm Indicators — Red/blue color-coded alerts with blinking status bar; inline set/clear on each channel
• 🔔 Desktop Notifications — Optional OS notifications when alarms fire
• 🔄 Live Updates — Configurable refresh interval (default 60s, minimum 15s) with optional WebSocket streaming
• 🎛️ Device Control — Set fan target/enable, rename devices, reset min/max
• 📊 Events Panel — Dedicated view with per-device filtering and severity icons
• 🗂️ Sessions — Start, end, and clear monitoring sessions; active timer on device node
• 🌡️ Temperature Guide — Browsable reference for safe cooking temperatures
• 📐 Calibration — View calibration records under each device
• 📉 Data Usage — Total and per-device usage in the Account node
• 🔗 Shared Credentials — Works with the same login as the thermoworks CLI
• 🤖 AI / Copilot — ThermoWorks data is available to Copilot and AI agents via the MCP server (thermoworks mcp start); run thermoworks copilot setup to configure

Getting Started

A built-in walkthrough guides you through setup. Open it from the Command Palette:

Get Started: ThermoWorks

Or follow the manual steps below.

1. Login

You can authenticate in two ways:

Option A: VS Code Command

1. Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P)
2. Run ThermoWorks: Login
3. Enter your ThermoWorks Cloud email and password

Option B: CLI (shared credentials)

npm install -g thermoworks
thermoworks auth login

2. (Optional) Choose which devices to show

After signing in, the status bar shows one device by default (its average temperature), and the Devices panel lists everything automatically. Change thermoworks.statusBarMode (single, cycle, or all) to control what the status bar shows.

To curate which devices/channels appear in the status bar (e.g. specific probes instead of averages), run the CLI setup:

thermoworks copilot setup

This saves your selection to ~/.thermoworks/config.json, which the extension reads. Without it, the status bar falls back to showing every device.

Commands

Settings

Device Panel

The extension adds a ThermoWorks: Devices panel to the VS Code sidebar showing:

• Account info — email, display name, preferred units, timezone, account type, data usage
• All devices — with type, online/offline status, session timer, and alarm badges
• Channel readings — color-coded (green = normal, red = high alarm, blue = low alarm)
• Device metadata — battery %, last seen, firmware version, average temperature
• Fan controller — target temperature and state (Signals devices)
• Calibration records — date, result, and adjustment points
• Firmware alerts — orange warning when a device has outdated firmware
• Past sessions — expand a device's Archives to browse completed sessions; each shows per-channel min/max, and the graph icon charts that session's full history
• Badge count — activity bar icon shows number of devices with active alarms

The panel updates live on the configured refresh interval via a shared per-device subscription. The device list is cached for 5 minutes (devices rarely change), while channel readings stream in at the configured interval.

Firmware Update Detection

The extension compares each device's current firmware version against the latest available version from ThermoWorks Cloud. If a device is outdated, an orange "Firmware update available" warning is visible at every level of the tree:

• Devices folder — shows "1 update available" in the description with an orange alert icon
• Device node — shows "⬆️ Update" next to the device type, with an orange alert icon
• Device children — shows "Firmware update available" with the current version

Firmware info is cached for 1 hour (releases are infrequent).

Events Panel

A dedicated Events view shows device events (alarms, connections, config changes) with:

• Severity-coded icons (critical, warning, info)
• Time-ago descriptions
• Per-device filtering via the toolbar
• Configurable event limit

Status Bar

The extension shows temperatures in the format:

🔥 Smoker:225°F · Meat:145°F

Hover for a detailed tooltip with all device and channel information.

Alarm Indicators

When a device channel's alarm triggers, the status bar changes appearance:

• High alarm — Red background (error styling) + blinking text
• Low alarm — Blue text + blinking text

Alarms are detected automatically from the alarmHigh.alarming and alarmLow.alarming fields on each channel. The highest severity alarm across all displayed channels determines the style (high takes priority over low).

Requirements

• A ThermoWorks Cloud account
• At least one connected ThermoWorks device (Smoke, Signals, Node, etc.)

Publishing to VS Code Marketplace

This extension is published under publisher jongio. To publish a new version:

cd packages/vscode
pnpm build
pnpm package   # creates .vsix file
pnpm publish   # publishes to marketplace (requires PAT)

First-Time Setup

1. Register as a publisher at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/manage
2. Create an Azure DevOps Personal Access Token (PAT) with Marketplace (Publish) scope
3. Run npx vsce login jongio and paste your PAT

License

MIT