I have the same exact issue. Need to open the monitor manually with pySerial: "pyserial-miniterm.exe COM8 115200"

I just updated to v1.1.0 and was full of hope that this time the debugging extension could work. It did not, but at least it's giving me an error instead of a blank popup: "Failed to init Debug Adapter". I'm actually the only one on my team that is able to make the IDF work and we are in a kinda cri...