Filter serial devices by default and allow user to disable chip id in serial port list

[brianignacio5]

Description

Add idf.enableSerialPortChipIdRequest and idf.useSerialPortVendorProductFilter which are set true by default.

Now the serial ports listed with the ESP-IDF: Select port to use command will only show know USB serial ports by filtering them with productID and vendorID. This can be disabled with "idf.useSerialPortVendorProductFilter": false in settings.json

esptool.py chip_id is executed when running the previous command to get the chip name and show it in the list. This can be disabled with "idf.enableSerialPortChipIdRequest": false in settings.json.

Add idf.usbSerialPortFilters for user to define the list of USB PID VID filters.

Fixes #1274

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

Steps to test this pull request

Provide a list of steps to test changes in this PR and required output

1. Click on "ESP-IDF: Select port to use ". Now only Espressif devices should be shown by default.
2. Set "idf.useSerialPortVendorProductFilter": false and Click on "ESP-IDF: Select port to use ". Now all serial ports will be shown. If set true, the behavior is back as step 1.
3. Set "idf.enableSerialPortChipIdRequest": false and Click on "ESP-IDF: Select port to use ". Now the esptool.py chip_id is not executed and the chip name is not shown in list. If set true, the behavior is same as step 1.

• Expected behaviour:

• Expected output:

How has this been tested?

Manual testing with steps above.

Test Configuration:

• ESP-IDF Version: 5.2.2
• OS (Windows,Linux and macOS): macOS

Checklist

• PR Self Reviewed
• Applied Code formatting
• Added Documentation
• Added Unit Test
• Verified on all platforms - Windows,Linux and macOS

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[radurentea]

LGTM

[radurentea]

Hi @Fabricio-ESP,

Please take a look

[Fabricio-ESP]

Having some troubles to get the correct data from the connected USB devices.
From the parameters provided, "UseSerialPortVendorProductFilter" is disabled by default. (updated official VSCode installation with the test binaries, on a Windows 11 machine).

Enabling filter, it shows the WROVER module only, the devices using Silicon Labs USB converters are filtered out.

Selecting the option to detect the chip id does not change this behavior.

Also observed that when the option to read the chip ID is selected, the detection of the WROVER module is intermitent.

[brianignacio5]

I've added USB CDC-ACM in the default list. Could you try again @Fabricio-ESP ?

Regarding the intermittent issue, do you see any related error in the extension log/ doctor command output ? It might be also be a timeout or connection issue.

[Fabricio-ESP]

Confirmed USB devices are not properly selected and filtered.
Tested on Windows 11 and Ubuntu with ESP32, ESP32-C6 and ESP32-S3 devkits.

The parameters to filter the devices is disabled by default.

[Fabricio-ESP]

No issues observed on the last build.