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| bigfix Senior Member  Joined: 20/02/2014 Location: AustriaPosts: 124 |
This looks VERY useful Have a look at more details on the authors Blog ondrovo.com There are two PDF Docs with more details But how this is programmed into the ESP ? I could not find any image to flash - need to build the image first ?? |
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| robert.rozee Guru  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 2294 |
it would be great if one of the ESP8266 experts out there could build a binary image, the MightyPork and ondrovo links do look like exactly what i originally had in mind  cheers, rob :-) |
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Quazee137 Guru Joined: 07/08/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 529 |
When this gets going maybe add XMODEM file operations. |
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| bigfix Senior Member Joined: 20/02/2014 Location: AustriaPosts: 124 |
I am in contact with Ondrej from Prague, who wrote this SW Very friendly & responsive guy ! I donated some beer money to him to honor his efforts (still miss the donate button from Geoff ..) I could not test it yet, as my ESP01s are hiding somewhere Hopefully I get some end of the week I asked Ondrej to add the following nonvolatile setups: - DHCP/Static, set IP / mask - changeable baudrate - default screensize - configurable password for config I think it is best having a "pure" dumb VT100 screen, with all the security done in the MMite But the setup of the ESP needs to be somewhat protected against casual users Most likely we can get a separate setup page, not linked from the VT100 Page (You need to manually enter the URL for safety reasons) The password maybe initially static, only used to save changes I also asked him to find a way (via Setup page) to switch off the VT100 engine and redirect the MMite serial port to a TCP socket This should allow all normal host based development tools to be used (TeraTerm, MMedit etc.) without physically changing things If you want to play with the current version: VT100 ESP Image Instructions from Ondrej: Basically, there are two options - the flasher from Espressif, and esptool.py (requires Python to be installed) (A) Espressif download tool The EXE should be available here, but I have not tried the current version. The older one was ugly and not at all intuitive, but did the trick. https://espressif.com/en/support/download/other-tools (B) esptool It's best to do this on Linux or Mac. I have not tried using Python on Windows, but it is possible. With esptool.py (https://github.com/espressif/esptool), the command is: esptool.py --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baud 460800 write_flash 0x00000 0x00000.bin 0x40000 0x40000.bin /dev/ttyUSB0 - change to your USB-serial device (on Windows, that is COM1 or something) 460800 (baud rate) works fine for me, but with some bad USB-serial adapters, you need to lower the speed. Try perhaps 115200. This is what the console output should look like for ESP-01: $ esptool --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baud 460800 write_flash 0x00000 0x00000.bin 0x40000 0x40000.bin esptool.py v1.3 Connecting.... Auto-detected Flash size: 8m Running Cesanta flasher stub... Flash params set to 0x0020 Wrote 40960 bytes at 0x0 in 0.9 seconds (355.4 kbit/s)... Wrote 233472 bytes at 0x40000 in 5.6 seconds (334.3 kbit/s)... Leaving... |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3027 |
This looks very useful, especially with access to a helpful developer. PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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| Tinine Guru Joined: 30/03/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1646 |
The Bypic guys have THIS. |
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