From 37d3e8ec5ebb07baeb671b682bdcf0a831076b4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Marcel=20St=C3=B6r?= Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:13:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Minor changes to flash and support --- docs/flash.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- docs/support.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/flash.md b/docs/flash.md index e0a6629f..62334d8d 100644 --- a/docs/flash.md +++ b/docs/flash.md @@ -1,10 +1,27 @@ +Adafruit provides a really nice [firmware flashing tutorial](https://learn.adafruit.com/building-and-running-micropython-on-the-esp8266/flash-firmware). Below you'll find just the basics for the two popular tools esptool and NodeMCU Flasher. + +!!! note "Note:" + + Keep in mind that the ESP8266 needs to be put into flash mode before you can flash a new firmware! + + ## esptool -https://github.com/themadinventor/esptool +> A cute Python utility to communicate with the ROM bootloader in Espressif ESP8266. It is intended to be a simple, platform independent, open source replacement for XTCOM. + +Source: [https://github.com/themadinventor/esptool](https://github.com/themadinventor/esptool) Supported platforms: OS X, Linux, Windows, anything that runs Python +**Running esptool.py** + +Run the following command to flash an *aggregated* binary as is produced for example by the [cloud build service](build.md#cloud-build-service) or the [Docker image](build.md#docker-image). + +`esptool.py --port write_flash 0x00000 .bin` + ## NodeMCU Flasher -https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-flasher +> A firmware Flash tool for NodeMCU...We are working on next version and will use QT framework. It will be cross platform and open-source. + +Source: [https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-flasher](https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-flasher) Supported platforms: Windows diff --git a/docs/support.md b/docs/support.md index eb22931f..bede94e3 100644 --- a/docs/support.md +++ b/docs/support.md @@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ The [issues list on GitHub](https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware/issues) StackOverflow is the perfect place to ask coding questions. Use one or several of the following tags: [esp8266](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/esp8266), [nodemcu](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/nodemcu) or [Lua](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/lua). ## esp8266.com Forums -esp8266.com has a few [NodeMCU specific forums](http://www.esp8266.com/viewforum.php?f=17). \ No newline at end of file +esp8266.com has a few [NodeMCU specific forums](http://www.esp8266.com/viewforum.php?f=17) where a number of our active community members tend to hang out. \ No newline at end of file