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esp8266 wifi-serial bridge, outbound TCP, and arduino/AVR/LPC/NXP programmer
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No OTA (over the wire) flash method for or from Windows OS? #446

Open dachshund-digital opened 5 years ago

dachshund-digital commented 5 years ago

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

yesyesuk commented 5 years ago

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.

dachshund-digital commented 5 years ago

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?

uzi18 commented 5 years ago

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

blkqi commented 5 years ago

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

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