ESP-IDF VScode monitor

[Piskun]

I made an update to IDF 6.0 and now monitor not working. It stops like this:

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PS D:\GDrive\programing\ESP32\ESP32_VScode\UV> $Env:Path = "
>> $Env:IDF_PATH = "
PS D:\GDrive\programing\ESP32\ESP32_VScode\UV> $Env:IDF_TARGET = "
>> $Env:PYTHON = "
PS D:\GDrive\programing\ESP32\ESP32_VScode\UV> $Env:IDF_PYTHON_ENV_PATH = "
>> cls
>> C:\Users\pisku\.espressif\python_env\idf4.1_py3.8_env\Scripts\python.exe C:\Users\pisku\esp-idf\tools\idf.py -p COM13 monitor
>> 

Any help?

[OllieK]

I started to see the same error messages after an update to IDF 0.6.0. Before that I was able to use the Monitor, but not to do any debugging. I did upgrade the esp-idf to 4.2 at the same time. After that, the Monitor did not work, but the debugging started to work. Then I did downgrade back to 4.1, but that gave the same Monitor error messages.

My guess is that the problem is in PowerShell scripts and Python paths. At the moment, even the basic idf.py is not working in the Monitor console. Normally the commands are in yellow and now they are blue.

[juliuzz]

Hello,
I have the same problem after the update of esp to 4.2. It is in blue because the system thinks they are strings as they are not closed.

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PS C:\Users\juliuzz\Espressif_projects\helloworld> $Env:Path = "      
>> $Env:IDF_PATH = "
PS C:\Users\juliuzz\Espressif_projects\helloworld> $Env:IDF_TARGET = "
>> $Env:PYTHON = "
PS C:\Users\juliuzz\Espressif_projects\helloworld> $Env:IDF_PYTHON_ENV_PATH = "
>> cls
>> C:\Users\juliuzz\.espressif\python_env\idf4.2_py3.9_env\Scripts\python.exe C:\Users\juliuzz\esp-idf\tools\idf.py -p COM6 monitor

[OllieK]

As a temporary workaround for the missing Monitor output, I am taking the following steps

1) In menu line, select Terminal, New Terminal (or Ctr_Shift_`)
2) In the opened cmd terminal, write the following commands
c:\esp\esp-idf\export
idf.py -p com5 monitor

In your setup, the export.bat file could be in C:\Users\yourName\esp=idf and the target could be connected to a different port than com5

PS. I did broke my ESP-Prog and have not been able to continue with the low level debugger testing. In practice, I have seen the debugger to work only once with ESP-IDF-Extension. The ESP32 debugging and ESP32-S2 usage have been very FRUSTATING.

PPS. The ESP32-S2-DevKitM-1 is really nice development board.

[OllieK]

To reduce the required keystrokes, I did create file ExportPath.txt into my project. I has only one line

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	C:\Users\Olavi\esp\esp-idf\export && idf.py -p com5 monitor

After opening the cmd terminal, I do copy paste this line to the terminal to start the serial monitor with the faulty IDF Extension 0.6.0. I hope, that this is not required once the 0.6.1 is released during the coming weeks. Change the user name and com port number to match your system.

To eliminate the <stdio.h> complaints, I did modify the c_cpp_properties.json file by adding the following line for the includePath and browse items

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	"C:/Users/Olavi/.espressif/tools/xtensa-esp32-elf/esp-2020r3-8.4.0/xtensa-esp32-elf/xtensa-esp32-elf/include"

Modify your path references to match the xtensa-esp32 version in your system.

[Albert_ABUS]

After the help of the others from former answers to this problem i tried to create a batch which starts the monitor with just starting this batch:

C:\Users\XXX\esp\esp-idf\export && cd C:\Users\XXX\esp\Projects\exampleProject && idf.py -p com4 monitor

what means <Path to export Batch> && <Path to Project folder with cmakelist> && <Monitor cmd>

with best regards

Albert

[eggnogg]

If you want to implement the fix that's on github without recompiling anything go to :
"C:\Users\%username%\.vscode\extensions\espressif.esp-idf-extension-0.6.0\dist"

open "extension.js", then find and replace

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1. function Be(e,t){const n=i.basename(o.env.shell);let r={"cmd.exe":'set "VARIABLE=',"powershell.exe":'$Env:VARIABLE = "',"pwsh.exe":'$Env:VARIABLE = "'};return"win32"===process.platform?r[n].replace("VARIABLE",e):`export ${e}="${t[e]}"`}

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with

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1. function Be(e,t){const n=i.basename(o.env.shell);switch(r){case"cmd.exe":return`set ${e}="${t[e]}"`;case"powershell.exe":case"pwsh.exe":return`$Env:${e}="${t[e]}"`;default:return`export ${e}="${t[e]}"`}}

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and

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/^v(\d+)(?:\.)?(\d+)?(?:\.)?(\d+)?.*/

with

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/v(\d+)(?:\.)?(\d+)?(?:\.)?(\d+)?.*/

Source:
https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp ... 5cca2adc2c

[dym.kyiv]

There is away to fix it.
Go to VSCode Setting by Ctrl + ,
Type Terminal into Search box terminal.integrated.shell.windows
and edit settings.json file by adding a line "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe"
after that restart VSCode and try to Monitor your device

[OllieK]

Thanks for Espressif IDF 0.6.1, this problem in 0.6.0 is now fixed.