nRF Connect for VS Code - Thread Viewer window empty

[Norbert]

Hello,

I am starting with the nRF Connect. I got a nRF52840 DK and I am following the 'nRF Connect for VS Code' YT series.

I got as far as part 5 (debugging), but I cannot get the Thread Viewer going. I can set breakpoints and inspect variables and memory but the Thread Viewer window remains empty. I made sure that the debug options are enabled in the build configuration. I also set 'CONFIG_DEBUG_THREAD_INFO=y' in prj.conf.

Some basic information:

• VS Code 1.81.1
• nRF Connect 2.4.0
• Win10

The nRF Connect is a clean installation. VS Code, however, is an older install as I am using it with an nRF SDK project.

Any idea what could be wrong here?

Thanks,

Norbert

[Doug K]

Any Update? I am having the same issue. 
SDK v2.5.2
Tried both routes with setting build to Debug optimization and by editing the prj.conf file with

CONFIG_DEBUG_OPTIMIZATIONS=y

CONFIG_DEBUG_THREAD_INFO=y

One note, is that I can get the threads to show up using Ozone Debugger and when I enable: CONFIG_THREAD_MONITOR=y

CONFIG_THREAD_ANALYZER=y

CONFIG_THREAD_NAME=y

Meaning perhaps its an issue with how VSCode and the config settings talk. 

Thanks,

Doug K

[Menon]

Hello,

Sorry, I haven't heard any good response from the team about this issue. Though the issue is the same, I recommend creating a new ticket providing much more details on the issue. Maybe you can attach this ticket link. Please include all the details I asked for in this ticket.

Kind Regards,

Abhijith

[wj_takumi]

Hi both, 
I wonder if the problem was resolved, and how? I currently have the same issue.

[Doug K]

Not the answer you are looking for but, I skipped that part of the tutorial as something is broken with VS Code's debugger. I created a different post on this and found that Segger's debug tool, Ozone, works fine for thread viewing but VS Code's version is broken. 

I recommend using Ozone for debugging. As of now, it is a better debugging tool than the built in one from VS Code. Also, if you install Ozone, there will be a VS Code nRF Connect action that gets added below the normal debug that says "Debug with Ozone" which makes it convenient to use.