electronicsguy / EspExceptionDecoder

Exception Stack Trace Decoder for ESP8266

Arduino ESP8266/ESP32 Exception Stack Trace Decoder

Arduino plugin which lets you get a more meaningful explanation of the stack traces you get on ESP8266.

Installation

• Make sure you use one of the supported versions of Arduino IDE and have ESP8266 core installed.
• Download the tool archive from releases page.
• In your Arduino sketchbook directory, create tools directory if it doesn't exist yet.
• Unpack the tool into tools directory (the path will look like <home_dir>/Arduino/tools/EspExceptionDecoder/tool/EspExceptionDecoder.jar).
• Restart Arduino IDE.

Usage

• Open a sketch and build it.
• Upload the sketch and monitor the Serial port for Exceptions
• When you get an Exception, open Tools > ESP Exception Decoder menu item. This will open a new window.
• Paste the stack trace into the window's top pane and the result will show in the bottom.
• Every time you enter new address or stack trace, the results will refresh

Gedit Highlighting

You can use the StackTrace utility to have gedit highlight the above stack trace for easy viewing. More details can be found here: https://github.com/electronicsguy/ESP8266/tree/master/Misc/StackTrace

Credits and license

• Copyright (c) 2015 Hristo Gochkov (ficeto at ficeto dot com)
• Licensed under GPL v2 (text)