I have not had this problem when running just the ESP32 units, but as soon as I solder those units into a board we designed, I get the problem. I'm assuming there is something about one of the lines that the bootloader may read that is now different from the individual lone ESP32 module. This probl...

I found a solution to this problem. All I had to do is change where it says "Enter ESP-IDF Tools directory" from my failing entry of c:\User\Eric\esp\esp-idf\tools to c:\User\Eric\.espressif - that made the problem go away. Hope this saves someone else the hours I took to figure it out

when I am in VS, I install the ESP-IDF VS code extension successfully, I then do F1 and then show example project , I then select EXPRESS and it gives me a selection window showing ESP-IDF version v4.4.1 and a container directory of C:\Users\Eric\esp and a tools directory of c:\User\Eric\esp\esp-idf...