I need to output to the serial monitor first before receiving input. I have a while(serial.available) in the code which works fine, but the Serial.println prior to that is dropped, because the connection isn't open at that point.

Is there a way for the ESP32 (S3) to wait until a serial port/monitor has been started? I’m using the Arduino IDE. On non-ESP32 boards, I’ve used something like this: while (!Serial) { ; // wait for serial port to connect. Needed for native USB port only } Serial.println("***************************...