Ive pointed the correct people at this thread. one of them should be able to answer soon :)

@dan I have the same Issue on Ubuntu 18, extension don't work VSCode version 1.27.2 Pymakr version 1.0.2

@jcaron I think I got it The calibrate_rtc() in library pycoproc break the console output, if I comment this call from get_sleep_remaining() No problem Connecting on COM24... # OK! starting, Reset= 0 stage 1 stage 2 Wakeup reason: 4 ; Aproximate sleep remaining: calibrate_rtc 0 sec stage 4 Wait for update ............. may be the deal is out there def calibrate_rtc(self): # the 1.024 factor is because the PIC LF operates at 31 KHz # WDT has a frequency divider to generate 1 ms # and then there is a binary prescaler, e.g., 1, 2, 4 ... 512, 1024 ms # hence the need for the constant self._write(bytes([CMD_CALIBRATE]), wait=False) self.i2c.deinit() Pin('P21', mode=Pin.IN) pulses = pycom.pulses_get('P21', 100) self.i2c.init(mode=I2C.MASTER, pins=(self.sda, self.scl)) idx = 0