When I bought it, there seemed to be ways of doing remote development, but everything I have tried did not work (remote ssh in vscode does not work in pi zero, debugpy is able to connect to the port 5678 but I cannot step or see variables.) What surprises me is that a device with such low specification seems to be expected to do development using it instead of just running int headless. When I am programming I am not just programming, I am reading examples in internet, reading my email.Įven if Pi Zero were powerfull enough to be used itshelf, I would prefer to use my PC for development and not having to be changing from one to the other. It is really painfull to try to do any development using just the pi zero. The same if you open the BookShell examples. You can run the basic thorne environment, but if you open the web browser it takes minutes to just open it. Pi zero does not run the x system and desktop confortably (I thoutht it was a problem of low ram but it seems more a proble of weak CPU). I have tried the built in development environment (thorne). It surprised me a bit, as vscode is not all that easy, but he seems confortable with it (I use vscod as well).Īny way it is not all that important to use vscode if there is an alternative that let you program your pi and debug it from the PC. He has been using Python on his own under windows, and he has already installed vscode on his own, following tutorials he found on internet. If you had a ARMV8 Raspberry Pi you could use VS Code natively: If vscode is not possible, other options would be wellcome. I can see the main thread and another thread 7 but cannot step or see variables in the pi zero running program

I can attach the debugger from the PC using 5678 port after launching the program in the PI, but all ends there. I have tried several things I have found in internet, installing debugpy in the pi zero.

The ideal solution, installing remote ssh plugin, is not an option for the raspberry pi zero as it does not support arm6l architecture. The problem is being able to debug the program remotly from the PC (I am using windows) So getting access to the pi zero files is only the first step (I have solved it vea g_ether and samba). Thanks for the answers, but the question is How?Īccessing files for editing in the pi zero is not a problem, I can edit them directly or sync them with the pc.

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