Getting runtime error if code is uploaded through VS Code using PlatformIO plugin

Greetings,
I was trying to learn some IOT stuff, for which I was trying out the code from circuits4you.com The code runs fine (on ESP-01) if it is compiled and uploaded through Arduino IDE . But if the same code is compiled and uploaded via VS Code using PlatformIO plugin , it uploads successfully but crashes when the client tries to connect to the server on esp-01…

Code is:

#include <Arduino.h>     //NB: Not used in Arduino IDE Code
#include <pgmspace.h> //NB: Not used in Arduino IDE Code

#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <WiFiClient.h>
#include <ESP8266WebServer.h>
//---------------------------------------------------------------------
// HTML webpage in program memory
const char MAIN_page[] PROGMEM = R"=====(
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<center>
<h1>WiFi LED on off demo: 1</h1><br>
<p>Ciclk to turn <a href="ledOn">LED ON</a></p>
<p>Ciclk to turn <a href="ledOff">LED OFF</a></p>
<hr>
</center>
</body>
</html>
)=====";

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
// On board LED Connected to GPIO2
#define LED 2

// SSID and Password of your WiFi router
const char *ssid = "Crystals";
const char *password = "123456";

ESP8266WebServer server(80); // Server on port 80

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------

void handleRoot()
{
  Serial.println("You called root page");
  String s = MAIN_page;             // Read HTML contents
  server.send(200, "text/html", s); // Send web page
}

void handleLEDon()
{
  Serial.println("LED on page");
  digitalWrite(LED, LOW);                     // LED is connected in reverse
  server.send(200, "text/html", "LED is ON"); // Send ADC value only to client ajax request
}

void handleLEDoff()
{
  Serial.println("LED off page");
  digitalWrite(LED, HIGH);                     // LED off
  server.send(200, "text/html", "LED is OFF"); // Send ADC value only to client ajax request
}

/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//                  SETUP
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(115200);
  WiFi.begin(ssid, password); // Connect to your WiFi router
  Serial.println("");

  pinMode(LED, OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(LED, HIGH);

  while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED)
  {
    delay(500);
    Serial.print(".");
  }

  Serial.println("");
  Serial.print("Connected to ");
  Serial.println(ssid);
  Serial.print("IP address: ");
  Serial.println(WiFi.localIP()); 
  server.on("/", handleRoot);       
  server.on("/ledOn", handleLEDon); // as Per  <a href="ledOn">, Subroutine to be called
  server.on("/ledOff", handleLEDoff);
  server.begin(); // Start server
  Serial.println("HTTP server started");
}
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//                     LOOP
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void loop()
{
  server.handleClient(); // Handle client requests
}

Serial Monitor Output of VS Code :

--- Miniterm on COM5  115200,8,N,1 ---
--- Quit: Ctrl+C | Menu: Ctrl+T | Help: Ctrl+T followed by Ctrl+H ---
.........
Connected to Crystals    
IP address: 192.168.18.77
HTTP server started      
New client
request: GET /readRELAYState HTTP/1.1    
method: GET url: /readRELAYState search: 
headerName: Host
headerValue: 192.168.18.77
headerName: Connection
headerValue: keep-alive
headerName: User-Agent
headerValue: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36
headerName: DNT
headerValue: 1
headerName: Accept
headerValue: */*
headerName: sec-gpc
headerValue: 1
headerName: Referer
headerValue: http://192.168.18.77/
headerName: Accept-Encoding
headerValue: gzip, deflate
headerName: Accept-Language
headerValue: en-US,en;q=0.9
args:
args count: 0
args:
args count: 0
Request: /readRELAYState
Arguments:
final list of key/value pairs:
request handler not found
New client
request: GET /readRELAYState HTTP/1.1
method: GET url: /readRELAYState search:
headerName: Host
headerValue: 192.168.18.77
headerName: Connection
headerValue: keep-alive
headerName: User-Agent
headerValue: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36
headerName: DNT
headerValue: 1
headerName: Accept
headerValue: */*
headerName: sec-gpc
headerValue: 1
headerName: Referer
headerValue: http://192.168.18.77/
headerName: Accept-Encoding
headerValue: gzip, deflate
headerName: Accept-Language
headerValue: en-US,en;q=0.9
args:
args count: 0
args:
args count: 0
Request: /readRELAYState
Arguments: 
final list of key/value pairs:
request handler not found
New client
request: GET / HTTP/1.1
method: GET url: / search:
headerName: Host
headerValue: 192.168.18.77
headerName: Connection
headerValue: keep-alive
headerName: Cache-Control
headerValue: max-age=0
headerName: DNT
headerValue: 1
headerName: Upgrade-Insecure-Requests
headerValue: 1
headerName: User-Agent
headerValue: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36
headerName: Accept
headerValue: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
headerName: sec-gpc
headerValue: 1
headerName: Accept-Encoding
headerValue: gzip, deflate
headerName: Accept-Language
headerValue: en-US,en;q=0.9
args:
args count: 0
args:
args count: 0
Request: /
Arguments:
final list of key/value pairs:
You called root page

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Exception (3):
epc1=0x4000bf64 epc2=0x00000000 epc3=0x00000000 excvaddr=0x4023dc01 depc=0x00000000

LoadStoreError: Processor internal physical address or data error during load or store
  excvaddr=0x4023dc01 in sleep_reset_analog_rtcreg_8266 at ??:?

>>>stack>>>

ctx: cont
sp: 3ffffd00 end: 3fffffc0 offset: 0190
3ffffe90:  00000001 00000001 4023dc01 40205def
3ffffea0:  3ffefbf0 00000001 3ffef9ec 4020349e
3ffffeb0:  3fffff00 3fffff10 80fffef0 40201bc0
3ffffec0:  00000001 402088dc 3ffffef0 402088aa
3ffffed0:  3fffff10 3ffee558 3ffef9ec 401000e1
3ffffee0:  3ffef9ec 3ffee558 3ffef9ec 40201bf8
3ffffef0:  3ffe0000 00000000 8030000a 80207ad9
3fffff00:  3ffef9ec 3ffee558 3ffee518 40203501
3fffff10:  0000002f 80000000 81ff0000 0000008f
3fffff20:  80005054 3ffee634 4010021c 0000a8e5
3fffff30:  3ffee558 00000001 3ffe876f 402056b5
3fffff40:  00000001 00000001 0000000f 40205874
3fffff50:  3fffdad0 00000000 3ffee518 3ffee6b0
3fffff60:  00000001 3ffee53c 3ffee518 4020393b
3fffff70:  40208d18 00000000 00001388 80efeffe
3fffff80:  00000000 3fff0004 00000001 40100170
3fffff90:  3fffdad0 00000000 3ffee670 402039dc
3fffffa0:  3fffdad0 00000000 3ffee670 40206d34  
3fffffb0:  feefeffe feefeffe 3ffe84ec 40100c49
<<<stack<<<

0x4023dc01 in sleep_reset_analog_rtcreg_8266 at ??:?
0x40205def in String::String(char const*) at ??:?
0x4020349e in handleRoot() at ??:?
0x40201bc0 in esp8266webserver::FunctionRequestHandler<WiFiServer>::handle(esp8266webserver::ESP8266WebServerTemplate<WiFiServer>&, HTTPMethod, String) at ??:?
0x402088dc in esp8266webserver::FunctionRequestHandler<WiFiServer>::canHandle(HTTPMethod, String) at ??:?
0x402088aa in std::_Function_handler<void (), void (*)()>::_M_invoke(std::_Any_data const&) at ??:?
0x401000e1 in std::function<void ()>::operator()() const at ??:?
0x40201bf8 in esp8266webserver::FunctionRequestHandler<WiFiServer>::handle(esp8266webserver::ESP8266WebServerTemplate<WiFiServer>&, HTTPMethod, String) at ??:?
0x40203501 in esp8266webserver::ESP8266WebServerTemplate<WiFiServer>::_handleRequest() at ??:?
0x4010021c in millis at ??:?
0x402056b5 in Print::write(char const*) at ??:?
0x40205874 in Print::println() at ??:?
0x4020393b in esp8266webserver::ESP8266WebServerTemplate<WiFiServer>::handleClient() at ??:?
0x40208d18 in precache at ??:?
0x40100170 in ets_post at ??:?
0x402039dc in loop at ??:?
0x40206d34 in loop_wrapper() at core_esp8266_main.cpp:?
0x40100c49 in cont_wrapper at ??:?


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platformio.ini file

[env:esp01_1m]
platform = espressif8266
board = esp01_1m
framework = arduino
monitor_speed = 115200
board_build.flash_mode = dout
monitor_filters = esp8266_exception_decoder
build_flags = -DDEBUG_ESP_HTTP_SERVER

Thanks

I’ve tested your sketch and platformio.ini (though without the flash mode dout modification) on a NodeMCUv2 and I have no problems running the sketch

.............
Connected to XXXXXXXXXXX
IP address: 192.168.1.152
HTTP server started
New client
http-server loop: conn=1 avail=0 status=wait-read
request: GET / HTTP/1.1
method: GET url: / search:  keepAlive=: 1
headerName: Host
headerValue: 192.168.1.152
headerName: User-Agent
headerValue: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:95.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/95.0
headerName: Accept
headerValue: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
headerName: Accept-Language
headerValue: de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
headerName: Accept-Encoding
headerValue: gzip, deflate
headerName: Connection
headerValue: keep-alive
headerName: Upgrade-Insecure-Requests
headerValue: 1
args:
args count: 0
args:
args count: 0
Request: /
Arguments:
final list of key/value pairs:
You called root page
http-server loop: conn=1 avail=0 status=wait-close
http-server loop: conn=1 avail=0 status=wait-close
http-server loop: conn=1 avail=0 status=wait-close
...

No crash is observed and the page works as expected.

Can you open a CLI and execute pio platform update espressif8266 to make sure you have the latest platform version?

Does the same sketch crash on other ESP8266 boards too, if you have others?

Thanks maxgerhardt, it worked after espressif8266 platform update.