VSCode remote support for embedded devices

atwok · September 19, 2024, 3:25pm

microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/main/remote-release-notes/v1_93.md

# August 2024 (version 1.93)

## Dev Containers

### Optional paths for Templates

During publishing, [Dev Container Template](https://containers.dev/templates) authors can now indicate optional files or folders within the Template. This uses a new property on the Template metadata called ['optionalPaths'](https://github.com/devcontainers/spec/blob/e2d850e48292b19b8beb3575b7e538a7bfdad981/docs/specs/devcontainer-templates.md#the-optionalpaths-property). End users of the Template can decide whether or not to apply those files to their workspace.

For example, a Template author might want to let a user choose to include/exclude starter code or platform-specific files.

The Dev Containers extension prompts users to select which files or directories should be included when applying the Template.

![Optional path prompt from Dev Containers extension](images/1_93/optionalPaths.png)

## SSH

### **Feedback Wanted**: Expanded compatibility for remote OSs

Effort has been made this milestone to make it possible to use the `Remote - SSH` extension with historically unsupported remote machines.

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Although I'm not an openwrt developer, I'm sure a number of developers use vscode daily. It would be awesome if I could use vscode to edit config files, etc.

brada4 · September 19, 2024, 3:55pm

Please connect to your OpenWrt device using ssh and copy the output of the following commands and post it here using the "Preformatted text </> " button:

Remember to redact passwords, MAC addresses and any public IP addresses you may have:

ubus call system board

dibdot · September 19, 2024, 4:01pm

Ah cool, thanks for sharing ...

atwok · September 19, 2024, 5:21pm

How did you get it to work? It hasn't 'just worked' for me. Can you attach the log of remote-ssh succeeding with install and start up?

dibdot · September 19, 2024, 6:42pm

I just did a quick and unfinished test. To get remote SSH working, I need to install full wget, coreutils-printenv, coreutils-sleep and tar. During the remote installation, the router's file system runs out of space ...

stangri · September 19, 2024, 10:19pm

Thanks for sharing the required packages, sadly on x86 (after installing packages you've mentioned) it's stuck in a loop of "Downloading VS Code Server".

atwok · September 20, 2024, 12:24am

I see the same behavior after installing the required packages. How do I know /tmp is filling up vs some other issue?

I did see some stack overflow posts that describe how to install the remote-ssh extension manually. I may try that when I have time to see if that works around whatever is happening during the install script.

atwok · September 20, 2024, 2:07pm

I was doing some googling this morning and ran across this older vscode issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/542

At the very bottom is the following code:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b01/dl-vscode-server/main/download-vs-code.sh | bash -s -- alpine

It's a script that downloads remote ssh and installs it. The only thing I have to add to this command line is 'arm64' since that's what my router uses, but after using this script and restarting vscode, I'm now connected via ssh!

I did have to install 'getopt' and 'file' to make this work.

stangri · September 22, 2024, 3:41am

Thanks, that worked for me, but I've had to increase the rootfs parition size before it completed, which made me wonder, maybe things would have worked with the larger partition size as well thru the vscode app.

antonk · September 22, 2024, 6:01pm

Off-topic but while we're at vscode: is there any way to stop vscode from popping up irrelevant suggestions (sorry, I don't know the correct term) when editing shell scripts? I hope vscode users know what I mean.