flasher.meshtastic has no device to select

meshtastic / web-flasher

Official online flasher for Meshtastic device firmware

https://flasher.meshtastic.org

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flasher.meshtastic has no device to select #3

Closed sylvandb closed 5 months ago

sylvandb commented 5 months ago

The web based flasher hosted on meshtastic has no devices to select.

background:

I've previously flashed 3x heltec v3 and a lilygo t-deck with no issues. Today I received 2 more heltec v3 and am unable to flash them because the web based flasher does not allow me to choose any device.

I've also been unable to get esptool to show a device, but I have the /dev/ttyUSBn available when I connect the heltec v3. I've also tried holding down the button during boot which supposedly puts it into flash mode. In flash mode or normal, esptool continues to report: A fatal error occurred: Unexpected UART datecode value 0x03700000. Failed to autodetect chip type.

rcarteraz commented 5 months ago

The web based flasher hosted on meshtastic has no devices to select.

background:

I've previously flashed 3x heltec v3 and a lilygo t-deck with no issues. Today I received 2 more heltec v3 and am unable to flash them because the web based flasher does not allow me to choose any device.

I've also been unable to get esptool to show a device, but I have the /dev/ttyUSBn available when I connect the heltec v3. I've also tried holding down the button during boot which supposedly puts it into flash mode. In flash mode or normal, esptool continues to report: A fatal error occurred: Unexpected UART datecode value 0x03700000. Failed to autodetect chip type.

This is a known issue with the API due to transitioning to a new web-flasher. Feel free to use the new one at https://flash.meshtastic.org which is verified to be working. Once changes are finalized we'll update the flasher sub-domain as well.

sylvandb commented 5 months ago

Thanks, I was able to flash firmware on my two Heltec's.

Please consider it is a bit frustrating for new/naive users that the documented and recommended "getting started" path is broken.

rcarteraz commented 5 months ago

Thanks, I was able to flash firmware on my two Heltec's.

Please consider it is a bit frustrating for new/naive users that the documented and recommended "getting started" path is broken.

I agree and it’s also frustrating when changes don’t happen as smoothly as we expected and something breaks. We’re all just doing our best here as volunteers. We have an open request to update the documentation which should happen soon enough.

Glad you were able to flash your devices.