What is the difference between PlatformIO extension and the EspressIF IDF extension? I want to use VS Code (instead of the EspressIF IDF environment), but when I install/configure the extension, it keeps looking for the IDF before installing the IDF! I tried installing IDF/Tools directly (esp-idf-tools-setup-online-2.20).. and compiling via the command prompt works fine (idf_py build), yet VS Code IDF extension still does not see it! What about debugging? I bought an FT2232HL based programmer, pointed the driver to WinUsb (via Zadig), but how can you debug on the target? For example, does it automatically start OpenOCD and load the elf file onto the ESP32? And if you unplug/plug, does the last debug program run, or was the debugger running out of RAM? Is the idf_py app-flash ever needed?

Thanks the command pallet works in my pc!!

thank you very much!

thanks a lot for giving best tutorial on youtube!! I am completely new ESP32 and by the end of video I was able to run blink code on my custom designed board!!

when I installed the esp-idf v4.4.5 it give the error in last step that python version mismatched. how can I solve this?

Thanks for this tutorial. I didn't get if ESP IDF uses micropython or C?

i had installed the latest version and I got this error identifier "CONFIG_IDF_TARGET" is undefined please help

[0/1] Re-running CMake...-- git rev-parse returned 'fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git' -- Could not use 'git describe' to determine PROJECT_VER. -- Building ESP-IDF components for target esp32

How to debug ?