Variable explorer don't show variables from remote kernel

[alandema]

Spyder 5.3.2 Python 3.8.6

Mandatory:

atomicwrites >=1.2.0 : 1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0 : 3.0.4 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0 : 2.0.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0 : 1.7.3 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111 : 20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2 : 3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=7.31.1;<8.0.0 : 7.34.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2;<0.19.0 : 0.18.0 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7 : 0.8.9 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0 : 3.2.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0 : 23.2.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0 : 6.2.0 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0 : 1.1.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0 : 2.8.0 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0;<0.9.0 : 0.8.2 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0 : 4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4 : 0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3 : 5.8.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0 : 2.10.0 (OK)
pylint >=2.5.0;<3.0 : 2.9.6 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0 : 0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.5.0;<1.6.0 : 1.5.0 (OK)
pylsp_black >=1.2.0 : 1.2.1 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.0.2;<3.1.0 : 3.0.3 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.1.10 : 0.2.1 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.0.2 : 1.1.0 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.3.0;<5.4.0 : 5.3.1 (OK)
qtpy >=2.1.0 : 2.1.0 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7 : 0.9.7 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0 : 61.2.0 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 4.2.0 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.3.2;<2.4.0 : 2.3.2 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0 : 4.2.2 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1 : 0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3 : 1.0.2 (OK)
zmq >=22.1.0 : 23.2.0 (OK)

Optional:

cython >=0.21 : 0.29.28 (OK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0 : 3.4.2 (OK)
numpy >=1.7 : 1.19.5 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1 : 1.3.0 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0 : 1.7.0 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.3 (OK)

I'm trying to use Spyder's Variable explorer as a variable explorer for my local jupyter notebook in VSCode with the same environment. I can connect successfully and can access variables of the notebook from the console, but they don't show on the Variable explorer.

From #11538 , #14894 and #16890 this shouldn't be fixed in 5.3.2?

[ccordoba12]

Hey @alandema, thanks for reporting. Variables can only be displayed in Spyder when you using a Jupyter notebook only if you previously install Spyder-kernels in your environment and then start a notebook with that kernel.

You can find here a description of that process for some kernels:

https://queirozf.com/entries/jupyter-kernels-how-to-add-change-remove