Need help programming respeaker lite with esp-idf to build a voice assistant - has anybody done it?

hey guys, really appreciate you all chiming in. I guess my biggest issue is that if I want to see this project being successful, and I do, I need to take a step back and figure out embedded development.

I’m used to be able to dump system state and log stuff and tcpdump network packets so that if I really want to I can see the inner working of the system any time. I’ve no idea how to do this with embedded. I tried to add logging, but the results was that loggin was consuming too much resources and creating problems with the audio processing, so I was adding issues instead of solving them.

any tips of guide on setting up a good development pipeline?

thanks