Sent! Thanks for your help and prompt replies.

You're right. I have it downloaded. I'm going to try it myself.

I was referred to try using PlatformIO with VSCode to debug, but I recall seeing poor reviews of PlatformIO. Does anyone have experience they would like to share regarding using PlatformIO with ESP32?

Yeah I went to look in the settings and I'm have "miDebuggerPath": "/Users/zhe/esp/xtensa-esp32-elf/bin/xtensa-esp32-elf-gdb", in my debug config. So it seems that is not the problem. I found that even when I start GDB on command line mode, my app_main has a stack level of -1, while the documentatio...

#-1 app_main () at /Users/zhe/esp/wifihub/main/main.c:59 Backtrace stopped: Cannot access memory at address 0x400d3bd4 I am getting the above and it seems to be confusing MI Engine. Does anyone know why the stack level would start at -1 instead of 0? Microsoft reported this may happen if the gdb <-...

Sorry about that! I really wanted to delete the post because I felt it was a silly issue.

Issue: UART FIFO getting random pieces of data leftover.
Reason: I was using IO pins that JTAG uses.

Solved

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"https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/api-guides/jtag-debugging/configure-wrover.html" I've tried modifying the FTDI driver configuration file as and disabling kext but starting openocd gives me Error: libusb_claim_interface() failed with LIBUSB_ERROR_ACCESS Error: unable to open ft...

Has anyone else experienced this? During flashing, I am not receiving the header packet while connected to my WROVER-Kit V4 using an USB. I suspect it is because the power supplied by my Mac's usb port is not sufficient. I've already ordered an externally powered USB adapter but I wanted to check on...