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Serial Debugging on ESP32
Jan 12th, 2022 at 6:52pm
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Hi 

I am very new to both ESP32 and Visual Micro.

I am trying to get debugging to break at certain points but it seems like its not breaking at point in VS or any serial message output.

This is my code.

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int counter = 0;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(115200);

}

void loop() {
	Serial.println(counter);
	delay(1000);
	counter++;
	Serial.println("Hello World");

	if (counter > 10)
	{
		Serial.println("Break Point ");
		counter = 0;
	}

}


The break point has been added after counter > 10.

Is there any video that gives some detail on how to set this up?


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Re: Serial Debugging on ESP32
Reply #1 - Jan 13th, 2022 at 10:01am
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The best place to start with the Serial debugger is the walkthrough guide below, which shows how to enable the serial debugger, and how to set breakpoints in your sketch:
https://www.visualmicro.com/page/User-Guide.aspx?doc=Debugging-Walkthrough-Start...
https://www.visualmicro.com/page/User-Guide.aspx?doc=Debugging-Walkthrough-1.htm...

Other videos using the Serial Debugging setup are below for reference:

Debugging INO and CPP Files using the Serial Debugger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujJT4cz6MmU

Conditional Breakpoints and the Serial Debugger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSxPGl8pEY8

Calibrating Sensors using the Serial Debugger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL3T7XvHPFM

If you still have issues, please attach the full text from the output window (with verbose and show build properties enabled as shown at the top of this page), along with a screenshot of Visual Studio.



  
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Re: Serial Debugging on ESP32
Reply #2 - Jan 18th, 2022 at 3:50am
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Please note that a bug in esp32 1.0.6 core prevented the debugger from working unless the serial.begin() in the user code is commented or removed. The issue is resolved in the more recent 2.0.1+ cores.
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