no, also this does not help; no output.
I also put before and after the import lines; but also this does not produce any output.

These are the suggestions from my side: SPI interface without the "design peculiarity" of the existing ESP32; maybe you have a bug-fix version for the ESP32 soon? I found out that the filter functionality of the SPI interface is very helpful for more robust EMC behaviour. So, my suggestion would be ...

This, indeed, is a strange thing on my PC: In the file associations I see that it is linked with pythonw.exe (which surely is wrong). But I am not able to change this setting - even not as administrator level. But: when I look into the registry (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT) I see that ".py" is linked to "Pyth...

Unfortunately this topic is becoming a bigger problem for me. Isn't there any workaround; even if it is a crazy solution like polling of incomming data???
Please help!

Now I was able to advance a little bit on this topic: In general I am having the problem on the windows 7 machine that the invocation of "idf.py build" has exactly no output like so: C:\Users\de527\esp\blink>idf.py build C:\Users\de527\esp\blink> also invoking idf.py without any arguments has not ou...

Both German.
Maybe that is the problem? How can I switch to English - just for test?

After poitively installing and using the CMake build system on Windows 10 I now tried to install the same on a Windows 7 PC - unfortunatley without success. I am running in compilation errors: Checking Python dependencies... Python requirements from c:\Users\de527\esp\esp-idf\requirements.txt are sa...

Now I tried to install the same build system (CMake based) on a Windows 7 PC (previous installation was on Windows 10) and I am encountering compile time errors. I think I will open a separate thread for this.

@roland Hello squonk11! I fixed a similar issue in https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/4749b118bc5e80e3d3ab5999444d078d36bfb1c9. Does this fix your issue? This fix is already included in my version of "idf.py". The problem still persits. But it is not a big issue since I can terminate monito...

@ESP_Angus Executing "C:\Python27\python.exe C:\Users\gus\dev\esp-idf\tools/idf_monitor.py -p COM6 -b 115200 C:\Users\gus\Desktop\esp-idf-v3.1.2\examples\get-started\hello_world\build\hello-world.elf -m 'C:\Python27\python.exe' 'C:\Users\gus\Desktop\esp-idf-v3.1.2\tools\idf.py' '-p' 'COM6'"... --- i...