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Tilt Hydrometer to WiFi Bridge
http://www.tiltbridge.com/
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Trouble installing #20

Closed sandbreed closed 3 years ago

sandbreed commented 4 years ago

I have a MacBook with OS 10.14.6 and am trying to install to an ESP32 OLED board. The Mac has Python 2.7 but I tried with 3.8 as well. I used "pip install esptool" to install esptool and used "pip show -f esptool" to confirm it was installed. Using "esptool.py" results in "command not found." Using "/Users/USER/Library/Python/2.7/bin/esptool.py" provides this:

usage: esptool [-h] [--chip {auto,esp8266,esp32}] [--port PORT] [--baud BAUD] [--before {default_reset,no_reset,no_reset_no_sync}] [--after {hard_reset,soft_reset,no_reset}] [--no-stub] [--trace] [--override-vddsdio [{1.8V,1.9V,OFF}]] {load_ram,dump_mem,read_mem,write_mem,write_flash,run,image_info,make_image,elf2image,read_mac,chip_id,flash_id,read_flash_status,write_flash_status,read_flash,verify_flash,erase_flash,erase_region,version} ... esptool: error: too few arguments

Using "esptool.py --chip esp32 --before default_reset --after hard_reset write_flash 0x10000 firmware.bin 0x8000 partitions.bin 0x3D1000 spiffs.bin" results in "command not found." I am not sure what to do next.

Also, do I move piffs.bin, firmware.bin, and partitions.bin to the same folder as esptool.py? I have tried with the files there and left in Downloads but need to confirm. I would appreciate any help.

thorrak commented 4 years ago

Make your life easier. Use BrewFlasher. :)

sandbreed commented 4 years ago

I wish I knew about that hours ago. I really appreciate it.

Everything seemed to work but the board does not boot, or at least the wireless network TiltBridgeAP does not show on my Mac or phone. When I plug it into a wall outlet, a red light turns on but turns off in about 1 second without anything on the screen.

thorrak commented 4 years ago

Sorry about that - I need to do a better job of promoting it. :(

Which firmware did you flash - the regular OLED one or the beta OLED one?

sandbreed commented 4 years ago

The regular version

sandbreed commented 4 years ago

I ended up installing the beta and everything seems okay so far. I really appreciate the help and BrewFlasher!

sandbreed commented 4 years ago

Apparently I'm just not supposed to use this. The beta version loaded and I setup Google Sheets. The TiltBridge logged one reading but since then has not logged another. I tried repeating the entire process with the same result.

thorrak commented 4 years ago

You are not alone in having issues with google sheets. It's one of the two reasons the firmware is still tagged Beta. :(

Sit tight - With the whole "no bars and restaurants" thing, I'm likely going to be focusing on fixing this over this weekend.

sandbreed commented 4 years ago

Gotcha. I appreciate what you have done already.

thorrak commented 3 years ago

This should be fixed with a prior release - closing the issue