diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index e9696882..b7dc1d6a 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ PlatformIO Core 5
 * Fixed a "The command line is too long" issue with a linking process on Windows (`issue #3827 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3827>`_)
 * Fixed an issue with `device monitor <https://docs.platformio.org/page/core/userguide/device/cmd_monitor.html>`__ when the "send_on_enter" filter didn't send EOL chars (`issue #3787 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3787>`_)
 * Fixed an issue with silent mode when unwanted data is printed to stdout (`issue #3837 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3837>`_)
+* Fixed an issue when code inspection fails with "Bad JSON" (`issue #3790 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3790>`_)
 
 5.1.0 (2021-01-28)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/platformio/__init__.py b/platformio/__init__.py
index 36ae62f5..8add71cc 100644
--- a/platformio/__init__.py
+++ b/platformio/__init__.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ __pioremote_endpoint__ = "ssl:host=remote.platformio.org:port=4413"
 __default_requests_timeout__ = (10, None)  # (connect, read)
 
 __core_packages__ = {
-    "contrib-piohome": "~3.3.3",
+    "contrib-piohome": "~3.3.4",
     "contrib-pysite": "~2.%d%d.0" % (sys.version_info.major, sys.version_info.minor),
     "tool-unity": "~1.20500.0",
     "tool-scons": "~2.20501.7" if sys.version_info.major == 2 else "~4.40100.2",