Debugging

I recently received a used Arista DCS-7050S-64 from Ebay. However once it arrived and I logged in via the serial console, I could not bring up the management Ethernet interface. It reported notpresent and the system logs repeated SIOCETHTOOL GDRVINFO (ma1...): No such device. This hardware was long EOL, but before leaving the Ebay seller a bad review for selling faulty hardware I decided to see if I could fix this myself. ...

When developing with ESPHome on ESP32 devices, crashes can be frustrating to debug without proper stack traces. Enabling coredumps provides detailed crash information to help identify the root cause of issues. Configuration To enable coredump functionality, you’ll need to modify your ESPHome configuration and create a custom partition table. This setup is for the Arduino framework - ESP-IDF configurations will differ slightly. ESPHome Configuration Add the following to your ESPHome YAML configuration: ...