Hi Jared,

I’m unable to build the AQW for Zephyr using the Circuit Dojo Zephyr SDK Tools VSCode extension. It may be something to do with the manifest, as I can’t get past the Zephyr Tools: Init Repo stage. My zephyrproject installation (v3.3) and the separate NCS for VSCode both work fine for all my other Zephyr command line & NCS projects. Appreciate if you could suggest what may be wrong.

Environment: macOS Big Sur 11.7.6, with latest VSCode

Zephyr setup

I have the latest Zephyr RTOS (v3.3) installed in a zephyrproject folder. This works for building any Zephyr project from a folder anywhere on my Mac.
I also have Nordic NCS for VSCode installed in the Nordic default path /opt/nordic/ncs. This is the latest NCS v2.3.0. I can build my NCS / Zephyr projects successfully from VSCode.

AQW build for Zephyr using Circuit Dojo Zephyr SDK Tools

For AQW, I’m following your instructions from https://github.com/circuitdojo/air-quality-wing-zephyr-demo.
I’ve installed the Circuit Dojo Zephyr SDK Tools successfully, and also ran the Zephyr Tools: Setup successfully.
When I run the Zephyr Tools: Init Repo and use the https://github.com/circuitdojo/air-quality-wing-zephyr-demo.git URL, VSCode throws an error. I do select an empty folder to initialize the project to.

=== Initializing in /Users/quark11/Documents/demo
--- Cloning manifest repository from https://github.com/circuitdojo/air-quality-wing-zephyr-demo.git
Cloning into '/Users/quark11/Documents/demo/.west/manifest-tmp'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 502, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (188/188), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (106/106), done.
remote: Total 502 (delta 92), reused 125 (delta 63), pack-reused 314
Receiving objects: 100% (502/502), 7.42 MiB | 14.37 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (228/228), done.
FATAL ERROR: can't init: no west.yml found in /Users/quark11/Documents/demo/.west/manifest-tmp
  Hint: check --manifest-url=https://github.com/circuitdojo/air-quality-wing-zephyr-demo.git  You may need to remove /Users/quark11/Documents/demo/.west before retrying.

 *  The terminal process "/usr/local/bin/bash '-c', 'west init -m https://github.com/circuitdojo/air-quality-wing-zephyr-demo.git --mf west.yml'" terminated with exit code: 1. 
 *  Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it. 

 *  Executing task: west update 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/bin/west", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/app/main.py", line 866, in main
    app.run(argv or sys.argv[1:])
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/app/main.py", line 111, in run
    self.run_command(argv)
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/app/main.py", line 383, in run_command
    self.run_builtin(args, unknown)
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/app/main.py", line 424, in run_builtin
    self.cmd.run(args, unknown, self.topdir,
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/commands.py", line 194, in run
    self.do_run(args, unknown)
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/app/project.py", line 823, in do_run
    self.update_all()
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/app/project.py", line 875, in update_all
    self.manifest = Manifest.from_file(
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/manifest.py", line 1170, in from_file
    return Manifest(topdir=topdir, config=config,
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/manifest.py", line 1368, in __init__
    self._ctx = self._top_level_init(source_data,
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/manifest.py", line 1710, in _top_level_init
    manifest_path_option = get_option('manifest.path')
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/manifest.py", line 1707, in get_option
    return config.get(option, default=default,
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/configuration.py", line 180, in get
    return self._get(lambda cf: cf.get(option), default, configfile)
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/configuration.py", line 219, in _get
    for cf in self._whence(configfile):
  File "/Users/quark11/.zephyrtools/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/west/configuration.py", line 240, in _whence
    raise MalformedConfig('local configuration file not found')
west.configuration.MalformedConfig: local configuration file not found

 *  The terminal process "/usr/local/bin/bash '-c', 'west update'" terminated with exit code: 1. 
 *  Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.

I do not get prompted for a project and board. VSCode doesn’t find “west.yml” (see screenshot).
I tried renaming west-vanilla.yml to west.yml but that didn’t help.

Any suggestions what may be incorrect?

Question - Is there a way that I can use NCS for VSCode and add the AQW project to my workspace and then build the project? In that way, it would be easier to build AQW for any of the supported boards. Thank you.