missing esptool.py

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missing esptool.py

toomyem opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

File board.py for esp01 board expects to find esptool.py in 3pp/esptool directory, but there is only binary esptool.

esptool_path = os.path.join(os.environ["SIMBA_ROOT"],
                                "3pp",
                                "esptool",
                                "esptool.py")

Erik Moqvist · Answer 1 · Thu Jun 14 2018 03:07:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Unfortunately I don't remember why I replaced the python esptool with the compiled one. The commit message is not very descriptive. Looks like other boards are using the compiled tool. I must have forgotten to update the esp01 board. It should work for that board as well, I hope.

Tomasz Machalski · Answer 2 · Thu Jun 14 2018 03:13:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Maybe because for esp01 you are using boot_v1.4.bin and "write_flash" function?

Tomasz Machalski · Answer 3 · Thu Jun 14 2018 03:15:03 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

What's more, in board.mk you are using scripts for esp12:

BOARD_PY = $(SIMBA_ROOT)/src/boards/esp12e/board.py
RUN_PY ?= $(SIMBA_ROOT)/src/boards/esp12e/run.py

Erik Moqvist · Answer 4 · Thu Jun 14 2018 03:26:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Actually, at a closer look in board.mk for ESP01 one can find that esp12/board.py is used.

So there is a chance the upload works. Was a long time since I last used that board.

Tomasz Machalski · Answer 5 · Thu Jun 14 2018 03:37:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

In the "Hardware setup" section of the manual there is a picture with description saying that there is esp01 in the test bed. So I thought that it is being tested and running.

Actually I was able to flash sample "hello world" type application but what I get are only boot messages, not a "hello" message I'm expecting. But this is another story and I have to take a closer look.

Erik Moqvist · Answer 6 · Thu Jun 14 2018 03:46:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The test setup is a little dusty. Last time I used it was when the latest release was created, about a year ago. =)

Simon L. B. Nielsen · Answer 7 · Thu Jun 14 2018 05:14:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

FWIW, I think the better long term fix is to just switch to the official esptool.py. I have been using it for a while since I frequently flash from a Raspberry Pi (IE. ARM) so the compiled esptool from Simba doesn't work.

As a bonus, the official esptool.py compress the image during transfer, so is generally faster than the esptool binary.

This has worked fine on all the ESP8266's I have tried.

Erik Moqvist · Answer 8 · Thu Jun 14 2018 05:34:01 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Feel free to create a PR replacing the compiled program with the latest Python scripts. I can dust off some of my ESP boards to help out testing.

Tomasz Machalski · Answer 9 · Fri Jun 15 2018 21:46:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I see you are already using esptool.py in esp-idf module, but it is not in newest version.
What do you think would be better. Just replace esptool in 3pp/esptool with esptool.py taken from Espressiff repository, or add this repository as submodule attached in 3pp/esptool directory?

Vijay Gill · Answer 10 · Mon Jun 18 2018 20:31:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Coming back after a few days ( got pulled away from projects at home by greater powers ), I see that this issue is being looked after by @toomyem (thanks!). I think this will resolve the issue I raised (and planned to work on a few weeks ago) #176.

Tomasz Machalski · Answer 11 · Thu Jun 21 2018 03:56:03 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I guess we can close both issues now.

Erik Moqvist · Answer 12 · Thu Jun 21 2018 04:00:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@toomyem Thanks for the contribution, always appreciated increasing the quality of the project.