The Essential Details of ESP32 Hardware Debugging

My ESP32 development needs have outgrown the Arduino IDE so I go on the hunt for a better development environment and hardware debugging support. I discovered PlatformIO and the ESP-PROG board. This combination lets me easily flash new firmware onto the board with one cable, and then perform in-hardware debugging. In the video I go into extreme detail to show you how to set up your whole environment for success.

Links to content:

ESP-PROG: https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/plus/debug-tools/esp-prog.html PlatformIO: https://platformio.org/ Zadig USB port utility: https://zadig.akeo.ie/

Timeline:

0:00 - Introduction 0:45 - Why do we need hardware debugging? 3:35 - The ESP-PROG hardware debugging board 5:12 - The PlatformIO development and debugging environment 8:27 - USB Setup 11:193 - ESP-PROG Setup 15:52 - PlatformIO Setup 23:57 - Flashing new firmware 26:05 - No Serial.println() output via the ESP-PROG board 26:48 - Good Serial.println() output via a second USB cable 27:43 - Hardware debugging! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEzgwCbIbyM