Device Console

The Studio-wide Device Console brings DESIGN → BUILD → FLASH → MONITOR → INSPECT HARDWARE into the visual workspace. It is a collapsible, resizable dock below the Studio; it is never part of the Canvas or exported interface.

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1. 01Use Console in the Studio toolbar to open or collapse the dock.
2. 02Drag the divider at its upper edge to resize it.
3. 03Start Build & Flash or Clean Build & Flash to open the console automatically with BUILD selected.

BUILD shows live ESP-IDF compilation and flash output, progress and completion state. It provides Build & Flash, Clean Build & Flash, Clear, Stop and auto-scroll. Existing ESP-IDF commands, board configuration, export validation and firmware generation remain authoritative underneath.

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1. 01Open MONITOR and choose Refresh if the port is absent.
2. 02Select the intended Windows COM port.
3. 03Keep 115200 baud unless the device uses another rate.
4. 04Choose Connect; use Disconnect, Clear and auto-scroll as needed.

MONITOR displays raw ESP32 serial text without interpreting or filtering it. It uses the local ForgeUI backend, not browser Web Serial.

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ForgeUI prevents the monitor and flash process from fighting over the same serial port. Before flashing it records the connection, closes and releases the port, then runs ESP-IDF. After a successful flash it attempts to reconnect the previous port and baud. A reconnect failure is separate and does not change a successful flash result.

I/O is a read-only interpretation of explicit patterns already present in MONITOR. Recognised categories can include System and memory, Network / Wi-Fi / IP / RSSI, Storage / SD, GPIO, GPS, I2C, UART and CAN.

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Studio UI
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Device Console
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Local ForgeUI Backend
  ├── ESP-IDF Build / Flash
  └── Serial Monitor Service
        ├── Raw MONITOR (authoritative)
        └── Read-only I/O parser

MONITOR and I/O share one authoritative serial source. I/O never becomes a second serial owner. ForgeUI integrates these tools; it does not replace ESP-IDF, VS Code, a general-purpose IDE or a full debugger.