Knowledge: #debugging

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• Debug GPIO from the shell with pinctrl: see pin modes, set levels, watch signalscode · unverified · pinctrl from raspberrypi/utils replaces raspi-gpio. It shows every GPIO's function and level, sets pins, lists alternate functions, and can poll pins as a basic logic analyser for slow signals.
• Debug a Pico with the Raspberry Pi Debug Probe: SWD upload, GDB and a UART in one cableprocedure · unverified · The Debug Probe (or a second Pico running debugprobe firmware) gives you CMSIS-DAP SWD plus a USB-UART. Flash ELF files with OpenOCD without touching BOOTSEL, and debug with GDB on a Debug build.
• Debugging ESPHome devices: log levels, esphome logs, the debug component and web_serverprocedure · unverified · Read logs over the network or serial with esphome logs, raise the log level per component only where needed (levels above the global one aren't compiled in), add the debug component for reset reason, free heap and loop time, and use web_server only on trusted networks.
• Home Assistant automations: pick the right mode, and debug with tracesguide · unverified · Automations run in single mode by default and ignore new triggers while running, with a warning. Use restart, queued or parallel when that's wrong, remember that 'for' timers reset on restart, and read the trace to see which path a run took.
• Orange Pi 5-series serial console: 1,500,000 baud on ttyS2, and where the debug UART isprocedure · unverified · When an RK3588 Orange Pi doesn't boot, the debug UART shows why. Orange Pi's RK3588 boot script puts the kernel console on ttyS2 at 1500000 baud. The debug UART is a 3-pin header on the 5, 5B and 5 Plus and part of the 40-pin header on the 5 Max and 5 Pro.