Many third party tutorials or YouTube videos might be outdated to the current way of using the extension.

Please follow the official documentation here:

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/vscode-esp-idf-extension/en/latest/index.html

Also please share the troubleshooting information as described ...

Hi Thinqer77, I hope I can try to help out here

Have you executed the Setup wizard as described here: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/vscode-esp-idf-extension/en/latest/installation.html

Maybe there is an issue with your setup, could you share the ESP-IDF: Doctor Command output to see if the ...

Seems that in your setup the extension can't get access to https://api.github.com/repos/espressif/esp-idf/tags?per_page=100 or https://api.github.com/repos/espressif/esp-idf/releases?per_page=100.

Are you behind a proxy with limited access to GitHub API ? Is your vscode has any proxy configuration ...

Already reply on the GitHub issue but for the sake of completion let's reply here too:

This is the documentation for C/C++ configuration on ESP-IDF VS Code Extension

It seems that using the Clang extension achieves better results for many users but you can also use the Microsoft C/C++ extension.

You don't have to update to v2.0.0 (it is a pre-release in vscode marketplace but vscode UI for pre-release vs release still need to be improved in my opinion).

Please try the vsix installer I've shared, the v2.0.0 has some breaking changes regarding esp-idf setup and how we store the settings ...

This should be fixed with https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/pull/1652

Could you guys try the latest master vsix installer You can use this VSIX to test the current github master of the extension by pressing F1 or click menu View -> Command Palette..., type Install from VSIX and ...

If the frameworks are not shown it might be to the configuration not being correct.

Could you share the troubleshooting information such as Doctor Command output as described in here:

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/vsc ... oting.html

I think there is an issue with your project configuration.

please review the Code coverage example https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tr ... ystem/gcov

This is a known issue and it was fixed in GitHub master already with Pull Request https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/pull/1538

You can test the current master installer from https://nightly.link/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/workflows/ci/master/esp-idf-extension.vsix.zip ...

Seems that your initial error was due to networking issue. If you are using a proxy (either in vscode or in your setup) it might break the connection to Espressif download servers as described by the error.

Currently you use the offline installer which it seems not to include pip in the embedded ...