How can I use the Visual Studio Code to simulate direct access to ESP32? (IDFGH-11678)

[shlomo-edu]

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General issue report

Up till now I am using the ESP-IDF examples for the DevKit.
Now I want to use it to simlulate the BLE and WiFi examples when the ESP32 is connected directly via the UART to my STM32 based PCB.
I want to use the AT-Commands.
So I can copy them to my code on the STM32.

1. How can I do it?
2. Are there examples for it?

[brianignacio5]

You have a few options like using our QEMU port for esp32 and use it as target for the project you are running or try using https://wokwi.com extension for Visual Studio Code and browse their many examples projects.

The QEMU options would require more configuration from your side. Here a few links to help:

1. Setting a docker container and use it with the ESP-IDF vscode extension: https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/blob/master/docs/tutorial/using-docker-container.md
2. Information about our ESP32 QEMU fork https://github.com/espressif/esp-toolchain-docs/tree/main/qemu/esp32 which provide some initial insight about networking on a container.