Wish: Static configuration mode (e.g for devices with 512k Flash only)

homieiot / homie-esp8266

💡 ESP8266 framework for Homie, a lightweight MQTT convention for the IoT

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Wish: Static configuration mode (e.g for devices with 512k Flash only) #65

Closed euphi closed 8 years ago

euphi commented 8 years ago

My ESP8266-ADC has 512k flash size only, so OTA is not possible.

This means I need to flash manually and reconfigure the device afterwards.

It would be nice to be able to hardcode Wifi-Settings.

As I'm using eclipse (and not the arduino IDE) there is also no tool to upload the config file manually to SPIFFS.

BTW: For me, the key feature of "homie-esp8266" is the easy API for handling mqtt messages. OTA/JSON-Configuration is a nice feature, but a little bit overengineered for my use cases.

marvinroger commented 8 years ago

You don't have to reconfigure the device after a flash, as the SPIFFS is untouched when you flash the firmware. So you only have to configure it once. Are you sure your SPIFFS gets erased when reflashing?

euphi commented 8 years ago

The config may have been deleted, because I have a jumper on GPIO0 to enter flash mode. I will try again with a changed (Homie-)reset pin.

euphi commented 8 years ago

Ok, it seems it was caused by the GPIO0 as reset pin. Sorry.

marvinroger commented 8 years ago

No problem. :)