esptool

This is a work in progress and has not yet been fully tested I bundle my fluepdot firmware with this tool to ship a standalone update utility, which I prefer over remote code execution on customer HW OTA updates.

Compilation

go get github.com/fluepke/esptool
cd ${GOPATH-$HOME/go}/src/github.com/fluepke/esptool
go build
./esptool <args>

Usage

It only works on Linux as of right now, because Microsoft(r) Windows(tm)(c) does not support termios. Concerning MacOS: Buy me a macbook.

Esptool offers the following subcommands:

• version: Show version info and exit
• info: Retrieve various information from chip
• flashRead: Read flash contents
• flashWrite: Write flash contents

to see the help, type ./esptool <subcommand> -h

Examples

Read various information and the partition table from chip, then display them in JSON format:

./esptool info -serial.port /dev/ttyUSB0 -json

Click to see command output

{
  "ChipType": "ESP32D0WDQ6",
  "Revision": "1",
  "Features": [
    "240MHz",
    "WiFi",
    "Single Core",
    "VRef calibration in efuse",
    "Coding Scheme None",
    "Bluetooth"
  ],
  "MacAddress": "24:6f:28:92:ef:20",
  "Partitions": [
    {
      "name": "nvs",
      "type": "data",
      "subtype": "nvs",
      "Offset": 36864,
      "size": 16384
    },
    {
      "name": "otadata",
      "type": "data",
      "subtype": "factory",
      "Offset": 53248,
      "size": 8192
    },
    {
      "name": "phy_init",
      "type": "data",
      "subtype": "phy",
      "Offset": 61440,
      "size": 4096
    },
    {
      "name": "factory",
      "type": "app",
      "subtype": "factory",
      "Offset": 65536,
      "size": 3145728
    },
    {
      "name": "config",
      "type": "66",
      "subtype": "35",
      "Offset": 3211264,
      "size": 4096
    }
  ]
}

Write data to flash

./esptool flashWrite -flash.file=/home/fluepke/git/fluepdot/software/firmware/flipdot-firmware.bin -flash.offset=0x10000 -serial.port=/dev/ttyUSB0 -serial.baudrate.transfer=500000 -serial.baudrate.connect=115200