Hi, this isn’t the usual way how you clone the repo.
First clone the repo to another folder and then open the existing project you just cloned with vscode.
The repo includes the complete configured project which only has to be opened with your build environment.
Then you can build the project and all sub-dependencys will be cloned automatically.
The only configuration you have to do is setting the proper environment variables for your region and hardware. see here: PlatformIO build instructions using GUI - #24 by drewsed
remember to restart vscode after setting the env variables ro make sure they are loaded on starting vscode.
cheers 