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PlatformIO is one of most popular embedded development tool. Currently, it supports Arduino ESP32 and ESP-IDF from Espressif (other platforms are also supported).
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PlatformIO is a professional collaborative platform for embedded development. It has out-of-the-box support for ESP32 SoCs and allows working with Arduino ESP32 as well as ESP-IDF from Espressif without changing your development environment. PlatformIO includes lots of instruments for the most common development tasks such as debugging, unit testing, and static code analysis.
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To install PIO, you can follow this Getting Started, provided by PIO at `docs.platformio.org`_.
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A detailed overview of the PlatformIO ecosystem and its philosophy can be found in `the official documentation <https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/core/index.html>`_.
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To test the latest Arduino ESP32, you need to change your project *platform.ini* accordingly.
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PlatformIO can be used in two flavors:
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- Start a new project and select one of the available board. You can change after by changing the *platform.ini* file.
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- `PlatformIO IDE <https://platformio.org/platformio-ide>`_ is a toolset for embedded C/C++ development available on Windows, macOS and Linux platforms
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- `PlatformIO Core (CLI) <https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/core/index.html>`_ is a command-line tool that consists of a multi-platform build system, platform and library managers and other integration components. It can be used with a variety of code development environments and allows integration with cloud platforms and web services
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To install PlatformIO, you can follow this Getting Started, provided at `docs.platformio.org`_.
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Using the stable code
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.. note::
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A detailed overview of supported development boards, examples and frameworks can be found on `the official Espressif32 dev-platform page <https://registry.platformio.org/platforms/platformio/espressif32>`_ in the PlatformIO Registry.
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The most reliable and easiest way to get started is to use the latest stable version of the ESP32 development platform that passed all tests/verifications and can be used in production.
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Create a new project and select one of the available boards. You can change after by changing the `platformio.ini <https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/projectconf/index.html>`_ file.
To test the latest Arduino ESP32, you need to change your project *platformio.ini* accordingly.
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The following configuration uses the upstream version of the Espressif development platform and the latest Arduino core directly from the Espressif GitHub repository:
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