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No OTA (over the wire) flash method for or from Windows OS?

Open dachshund-digital opened this issue 6 years ago • 4 comments

No OTA (over the wire) flash method for or from Windows OS?

dachshund-digital avatar May 30 '19 15:05 dachshund-digital

I use Tibbo VSP Manager (http://tibbo.com/soi/software.html) to create a virtual serial port which then connects to ESP-link. In the Arduino IDE (or Visual Studio) I then select the created COM port and upload the new sketch as normal. Sometimes I have to try a few times, but generally it works well. Just make sure nothing else is trying to communicate with the Arduino (or other MCU) over ESP-link while you are uploading the sketch.

yesyesuk avatar May 30 '19 15:05 yesyesuk

Wow... that seems like at lot of effort... Fortunately, since I have been doing virtualization engineering for most of my 30+ IT career I have a few standing Linux virtual machines I can use. I could also use a Raspberry Pi to host the OTA firmware update. But I digress, since neither of these is Windows based. Is not most of the wiflash script REST like API? So maybe a power-shell script could be developed?

dachshund-digital avatar May 30 '19 22:05 dachshund-digital

I'm sure someone already wrote such script, you need to check PRs and issues

uzi18 avatar Jun 01 '19 10:06 uzi18

I am using a tool called avr-link which is compatible with Windows.

https://gitlab.com/bc547-playground/avr-link

blkqi avatar Jun 27 '19 23:06 blkqi