search

HomeKidd / Homekit-WS2812B-controller

ESP8266 based ๏ฃฟ Homekit controller for WS2812B lightstrips with WS2812FX support๐ŸŒˆ
237 stars 35 forks source link

Question: How to update without resetting everything #32

Closed Caleb79 closed 3 years ago

Caleb79 commented 3 years ago

Hi, I've a question how your process of updating the software is? Do you always flash the software and all the settings, wifi etc. needs to be done again or is there another way of doing the update? Thanks.

HomeKidd commented 3 years ago

Hi!

Updating the firmware is the same procedure as flashing it first time but without erasing the flash. If the flash sector storing the Wifi/HomeKit/setup params are not changed (mostly i'm using constant flash sectors because of that) all the setup should remain the same so no additional re-adding to homekit etc should be done ๐Ÿ˜„

So if you flash the new firmware without erasing the flash, it will only update the main code, the settings should stay untouched ๐Ÿ˜„

I have this info in one of my Wikis but i don't know which one ๐Ÿ˜‚ so i'll add this note ๐Ÿ˜„