This is probably a hardware issue. It is stuck during the connection to the port (not during putting chip into download mode or flashing). The output of "dmesg" might reveal some information. You can try to establish a serial communication using any terminal program. Probably you will experience the...

No, you should not use "idf.py" for this.

You can find the instructions in the flasher stub directory: https://github.com/espressif/esptool/bl ... /README.md

Hi. I can recommend to update esptool to get the latest fixes: G:\Espressif\python_env\idf5.0_py3.11_env\Scripts\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade esptool The same can be achieved by running "install.bat" but that will update all tools (ESP-IDF won't be updated). Are you still experiencing the iss...

As a workaround, you can find an older installer which will deploy a Python 3.8-based environment. But I would like to stress again to you and everyone who reads this. If you don't use the latest bugfix version of the release then you might end up asking one-by-one for fixes which already have been ...

ESP-IDF v4.4.1 doesn't have all the necessary bufixes (in this case for Python 3.11 which was released much later than ESP-IDF v4.4.1). Please use always the latest bugfix version of the given release. It is v4.4.5 at this moment.

Also reported here: https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/issues/11896

The easiest solution for you is to re-run the Windows installer. You can point it to an existing copy of ESP-IDF (v5.1) so the download won't take extra time.

Are you using the official Vscode plugin from https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension? There is an "SDK Configuration editor" option which replaces "idf.py menuconfig". Probably that is why windows curses is not installed. Here is an installation guide to help you: https://github.com/e...

Have you run "idf.py build" successfully? Maybe check the logs from there first.

The documentation refers to the text flash_args files. Notice that there are no file extension used there. You are using the JSON file, so the formatting is wrong.