no module named esp_idf_monitor

[suni550]

Hi
I am using ESP-EYE evaluation board from espressif.
As a first step, I am trying to execute hell world example given in esp-idf.
I am using ubuntu in WSL2.
I am able to build, flash but can not monitor the com port.

When I execute idfx monitor COM3, getting following error.
'No Module name 'esp_idf_monitor' under python\Python310\python.exe.

Appreciate your help

[pushtoopen]

To fix this, assuming everything else is installed normally (Microsoft store installation of python) open powershell and run:

pip install esp_idf_monitor

Then go back to WSL and try again.

The idfx application is able to access COM ports because its going out to Windows to execute interfacing with said COM ports. So any dependencies that idfx has to interface with the board must be done in windows (powershell/command prompt) to get it working.