Open Hedda opened 1 year ago
Hedda
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1 year ago FYI, ksjh has begun some work on such automated firmware building using Github Actions and started a related discussion on it:
https://github.com/ksjh/silabs-firmware-builder
https://github.com/ksjh/silabs-firmware-builder/discussions/2
Note that most of the automation magic with silabs-firmware-builder looks to happen in Github Actions workflows:
giannello
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1 year ago Hedda
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1 year ago FYI, I submitted suggestion for ksjh (and darkxst) about adding Elelabs support to that fork -> https://github.com/ksjh/silabs-firmware-builder/issues/17
@NilsBohr perhaps you have some interest and input or feedback on that discussion there?
PS: Note that it is not only the first post there itself that is interesting but also/more the discussion further down that it leads to.
Hedda
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1 year ago NabuCasa/silabs-firmware-builder#8
Ah, @giannello already created an unofficial fork repo for Elelabs ELx0x3 -> https://github.com/giannello/silabs-firmware-builder
I the "elelabs-support" branch for reference -> https://github.com/giannello/silabs-firmware-builder/tree/feature/elelabs-support
Also check out this repo for patches:
https://github.com/darkxst/silabs-builder-remote
PS: In addition, tube0013 have also created their own forks with patches for his hardware models:
Hedda
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1 year ago FYI, darkxst begun work adding support for hardware manifests and allowing override configs. His has this repo/branch for now:
https://github.com/darkxst/silabs-firmware-builder/blob/manifestjs/manifests
https://github.com/darkxst/silabs-firmware-builder/blob/manifestjs/manifests/elelabs-elx0x3.json
Note! He also has experimental builds for same EmberZNet version and hardware but with different baud rate speeds for testing.
Hedda
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1 month ago FYI, it looks like puddly has in the past few weeks rewritten and reorganized much of Nabu Casa’s upstream Silabs firmware builder, and even added Z-Wave Controller too, plus archived their repo for binaries:
https://github.com/NabuCasa/silabs-firmware-builder/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
https://github.com/NabuCasa/silabs-firmware-builder/commits/main/
[!IMPORTANT]
New firmwares are released straight from the SiLabs Firmware Builder repository. This repository contains all past firmwares and will not receive future updates.
https://github.com/NabuCasa/silabs-firmware
So, new official Zigbee and Thread firmware releases for SkyConnect + Yellow and future Silicon Labs firmware will from now be released straight from the SiLabs Firmware Builder repository
As such the "old" silabs-firmware repository is now listed as archived and will not receive more updates but it will remain available as it contains all past firmware versions.
PS: Off-topic however interesting is that the silabs-firmware-builder now also contain Z-Wave Controller firmware for the upcoming official Home Assistant Z-Wave Controller USB adapter hardware that Nabu Casa is working on -> https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/05/08/zwave-is-not-dead
@NilsBohr Please consider making use of the "Silicon Labs firmware builder" which is a new open-source firmware build system that Home Assistant founders have now among other things announced as a common script tool set for building firmware images for Silabs based hardware.
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/02/08/state-of-matter-and-thread/#building-firmware-for-silicon-labs-chips
(Note that this is only just one section from https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/02/08/state-of-matter-and-thread/ )
In summary, they have open-sourced and released the ""Silicon Labs firmware builder" project which is a collection of automated build scripts to help make it easier to create reproducible firmware builds for Zigbee and Thread based SoCs from Silicon Labs.
Please consider making use of this firmware build system and if possible also contribute any improvements to upstream project:
https://github.com/NabuCasa/silabs-firmware-builder
As I understand it, right now it allows you to build either Zigbee EmberZNet NCP (Zigbee Coordinator on Silicon Labs Network Co-Processor) firmware images, OpenThread RCP (Radio Co-Processor), or RCP Multi-PAN firmware images for OTBR (multi-protocol Zigbee EmberZNet and OpenThead Border Router using Radio Co-Processor) profiled for their own Home Assistant SkyConnect USB stick/dongle and their EFR32MG21-based radio module integrated into the Home Assistant Yellow appliance, however, the idea is that you can build profiles for other Silicon Labs hardware adapters/dongles/sticks/modules as well. It could of course also be extended to not only support different Silicon Labs based hardware adapters/dongles/sticks/modules but also different type of firmware images, (like maybe OpenThead Border Router on NCP).
(Examples of firmware image builds that it can produce can be found here -> https://github.com/NabuCasa/silabs-firmware ).
Note that was just one of their announcements in that blog post; in related news, they also released "SL Web Tools" which enable flashing firmware to Silabs-based adapters directly from a web page as well as a "SiLabs multi-flasher" as a Python script flashing tool:
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/02/08/state-of-matter-and-thread/#silabs-multi-flasher--sl-web-tools
(Again note that this is only just one section from https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/02/08/state-of-matter-and-thread/ )
https://github.com/NabuCasa/universal-silabs-flasher
https://github.com/NabuCasa/sl-web-tools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-88K23e8XYw&t=2s&ab_channel=HomeAssistant
The "SL Web Tools" project is available as open source. It allows users to manage the firmware on Zigbee/Thread sticks using SiLabs chips directly from their browser, with no terminals or compilation necessary. This allows any creator to offer easy firmware updates to their users and make experimental updates available to test bug fixes quickly."
To see it in action, SL Web Tools for flashing firmware has been added to the Home Assistant SkyConnect documentation.
https://skyconnect.home-assistant.io
SL Web Tools is powered by another new open-source Python package “silabs-universal-flasher” → GitHub - NabuCasa/universal-silabs-flasher: Flashes Silicon Labs radios running EmberZNet or CPC multi-pan firmware
For reference; the firmware build system for Silicon Labs was made by Home Assistant developer/engineer and Nabu Casa employee Stefan Agner (a.k.a. agners, who also developed the EFR32MG21-based Home Assistant SkyConnect USB stick/dongle as well as the EFR32MG21-based radio module integrated into the Home Assistant Yellow appliance for Rasberry Pi 4 Compute Module). And the "universal-silabs-flasher" firmware tool was made by puddly who is also one of the lead developers of zigpy and the radio libraries for zigpy that is used in Home Assistant's ZHA integration (among other projects).
PS: They made updates to their documentation as relevant to Silicon Labs based adapters with correct firmware for Zigbee or Thread: