After some more use of esp-idf, I realize this was most likely a stack overflow, which can be detected by turning on stack canaries. This can be done in the Menuconfig using the FreeRTOS option configCHECK_FOR_STACK_OVERFLOW and also probably the COMPILER_STACK_CHECK_MODE option.

I am writing tests in vscode using unity following the extension and esp-idf documentation and have found that the testing tab in the activity portion of the IDE does not automatically update when I write a new test, nor when I click "Refresh Tests", nor any other form of clicking in the tab (ie. co...

Turns out my buffer size was too small! Its unfortunate there is no easy error message for this though.

Note that the API key used here is both no longer active and was on a free account. When esp_http_client_config_t is setup as const esp_http_client_config_t s_defaultTomtomConfig = { .url = url, .auth_type = API_AUTH_TYPE, .method = API_METHOD, .event_handler = tomtomHandler, .crt_bundle_attach = es...