This may happen if the serial port is still used for other commands or tasks. Make sure to close the flash task window or any windows that used the serial port or could also be PySerial clear comm error

Can you provide more information about your setup ? Here is the setup documentation It seems you have issues installing wheels for cryptography. Make sure you have Visual Studio Build Tools and that your Python setup is correct. You can also use one of our Windows installers for ESP-IDF system insta...

In your project's directory .vscode/launch.json you can add an extra field called logLevel and set to 0-5 as shown in DEBUGGING documentation. With regards to documentation, we keep updating the docs to better describe all features but definitely need to clarify this better. Thanks. At some time we ...

HI @OllieK Sorry for this issue, we are working on a fix for ESP-IDF Debug Adapter in the Visual Studio Code extension.

This issue is not related to ESP-IDF itself but an issue within the Visual Studio Code extension.

Sorry I've joined the conversation a bit late. Here is some information with regards to ESP-IDF Debugging in Visual Studio Code. There is several parts to achieve debug in visual studio code. The IDF Monitor had a bug in v0.6.0 and it was fixed in v0.6.1 The debug configuration is explained in DEBUG...

Can you open an issue in the Github repository here

We need more information about your setup and steps to reproduce this issue.

Open Command Palette (F1) and type `Preferences: Open Settings (JSON)` or use `{CURRENT_PROJECT}/.vscode/settings.json` to get the following extension configuration settings value: - `idf.pythonBinPath` (MacOS or Linux) or `idf.pythonBinPathWin` (Windows) also called `Python absolute binary path use...

What is the command you are using to flash your program ? If you are using the ESP-IDF extension for Visual Studio Code, make sure to use the ESP-IDF: Select port to use to choose the serial port before you flash as shown in the How to use Otherwise if you are using the command line, You need to spe...

So you are basically asking why do you need to configure the extension every time you open a project. You don't. The ESP-IDF: Configure ESP-IDF extension will configure the extension and save the settings in your configured save scope. By default your settings are saved in User Settings, but they ca...

In the extension repository readme.md there are several links to help you:

extension setup documentation

You can just use the ESP-IDF: Configure ESP-IDF extension command to configure the extension.