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/ESP32.

Installation

• Make sure you use one of the supported versions of Arduino IDE and have ESP8266/ESP32 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).
• On newer versions of linux (Ubuntu 20.04), you may need to install the libncurses5 and libpython2.7 packages: sudo apt install libncurses5 libpython2.7
• 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

Exception decoded on ESP32

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

Command line version

If you are searching for a command line version, look at [EspStackTraceDecoder] (https://github.com/littleyoda/EspStackTraceDecoder). EspStackTraceDecoder is based on the EspExceptionDecoder, but was completely rewritten for the command line usage.