this seems like a real showstopper) and is especially vexing considering this is Espressif's Dev Board for their latest processor using their recommended software setup. You have to keep in mind that you installed 2 toolsets for the same IDE. That is going to cause problems. So it's technically not...

Can you provide a reference to the VSC/PlatformIO issue you mentioned. Is there a resolution, anticipated resolution, or workaround? In my ignorance of how the toolchain works (or is setup, this seems like a real showstopper) and is especially vexing considering this is Espressif's Dev Board for the...

Pretty sure ESP32-S3 is a Xtensa core and the ESP32-C3 is RISC-V.

I have virtually no experience working with ESP32. I have installed VS Code and then PlatformIO and ESP-IDF within VS Code. ESP-IDF appears to be version 1.5.1 (which seem to either be hopelessly obsolete or not matching the ESP-IDF version numbers distributed on github and elsewhere). When I attemp...