Finally I fixed this issue.
To do that I had to disable McAfee antivirus protection. Then installation completed OK.

I had a previous version of idf installed and working with eclipse plugin for a long time. Yesterday, I have decided to install the latest version of idf v4.4. I am using esp-idf-tools-setup-online-2.13.exe to install it. I have tried to install it in different folders but always get "Installation h...

It looks like I solved it by just using: esp_wifi_stop() before entering lightsleep and then esp_wifi_start() after wakeup.

I have spent days trying to workout why I can't reconnect to wifi after light sleep but I am not getting anywhere. Here is the code to init/stop wifi and enter sleep mode. static void oneshot_timer_callback2(void* arg){ ESP_ERROR_CHECK(esp_timer_delete(oneshot_timer2)); oneshot_timer2 = NULL; ESP_LO...

Don't put definitions like that in header files, period. As dastoned said, it'll cause every C file that includes the header to have it's own 'private' version of the variable. Instead, *declare* the existence of the variable using 'extern char* ...' and then *define* (without 'extern') the variabl...

Thanks for your reply but this didn't fix the problem. So, I started with a new project based on the "Hello_World" in idf example directory. I created a def.h file: #ifndef _DEF_H #define _DEF_H //#pragma once int result; #endif And another source calc.c: #include <stdio.h> #include "def.h" //extern...

I am working on converting a project from Microchip PIc32 to ESP32. Because I am using different peripherals - WiFi, SD Card, UART, I am using different "C" source files. And here I came across the problem with variables not retaining values between different source files. Here is an example: I have...