Guide: Running Deviot with ST3 / ST4, PlatformIO 5, and Python 3.6+

Hi all,

Just figured I’d post this here as a solution to potentially many of your problems with running Deviot since PIO ended support for python 2.7/3.5 and lower. I’ve used these steps on ST3 and ST4 for Windows 10, and ST4 for macOS 11(.6)

For simplicity’s sake, start from scratch

• Remove Deviot from Sublime if you have it installed already (Package Control > Remove Package > Deviot)
• ~~If you are on mac and have/had the dev branch installed, unfortunately I don’t think it works with these instructions. If someone figures out a solution to that then let us know here! Removal is of course: Package Control > Remove Repository > https://rawgit.com/gepd/Deviot/master/repository.json~~ (2022-01-09) I’ve figured out how to get the dev branch working now, see below in Optional and #337 (this is required if you want to upload to boards which don’t use Serial for upload)
• If you’re on mac and have installed PlatformIO via their get-platformio.py script, my understanding is you’ll need to remove it. I had to use the Homebrew install, and I’m not sure how this goes if you’ve already got the regular install in place. pip uninstall platformio in the terminal of course.

Next step, Python

• If you have 2.7 and 3.6+ installed already, you may need to re-install your 3.6+ version to make sure it has precedence over 2.7 (I’m not really that familiar with python so this may not strictly be necessary)
• If you don’t have Python 2.7 and/or 3.6+ installed, install them however you like (e.g. via https://www.python.org/downloads/). As above, make sure 3.6+ is installed/reinstalled after 2.7. My understanding is that you do need both versions, but please correct me if I’m wrong, it’s always nice to minimise install overheads. In #320 and #323 people have mentioned they have it working in mac/Windows without 2.7, I haven’t tested scientifically enough.

Then on to PlatformIO macOS

• Install platformio via Homebrew. This seems to be important, I could not get it to work by installing PIO via their get-platformio.py script.
• If you don’t have Homebrew already, it can be installed by running (in terminal): /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
• If it requests you install the Command Line Tools for Xcode, go ahead with that
• Then install platformio: brew install platformio

Windows

• It’s been quite a few months since I did this, but IIRC you may be able to get away with the PIO install created by Deviot. Check if you have a .platformio folder in your user directory e.g. C:\Users*username*.platformio. If not…
• Install PIO using their instructions here: https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/core/installation.html#id30

Both

• Install Shell commands, a.k.a Set PATH variables, for PIO. Follow PIO’s instructions here: https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest//core/installation.html#install-shell-commands

Finally, back in Sublime Text

• Install Deviot: Package Control > Install Package > Deviot

Optional:

• Switch to Dev branch for most up to date version of Deviot. Instructions here: https://github.com/gepd/Deviot/wiki/Setup#developer As I mentioned above, this seems to break the mac install such that the Deviot menu disappears even though Package Control says it’s installed.
• Then see #337 for how to get the menus and syntax highlighting working again.

Hope this all helps!

Edit 2021-12-19 It seems you might be able to remove pio from PATH after doing all this. QyuriLa (in post #issuecomment-996787420) and I (in the post after) both seem to have found PATH is not required…

[gianlucaf81]

OMG! after years, with this guide, I was able to get it working again. thx

[hijomojo]

@QyuriLa

It seems that it happens on Windows (or at least my PC) too. … I ended up staying in the stable release (2.2.2), though.

I actually just ran into this issue when upgrading one of my Windows machines from stable to dev version 2.3.0.dev13, too! I’ve just figured out what happened and how to fix it … basically, the dev installer fails to create a few files but you can manually replace them. Here’s a link to my solution: #337