Terkin Datalogger sandbox cheatsheet

Setup your mind

Be prepared to put make recycle, CTRL+C, CTRL+D and CTRL+X into your muscle memory. Otherwise, let’s go shopping.

Control commands

Reset the device

make reset-device

Format /flash

This will re-format the /flash filesystem using LittleFS.

Attention

This will destroy all data on the /flash filesystem of the device. You have been warned!

make format-flash

Control keys

The whole story

CTRL-A        -- on a blank line, enter raw REPL mode
CTRL-B        -- on a blank line, enter normal REPL mode
CTRL-C        -- interrupt a running program
CTRL-D        -- on a blank line, do a soft reset of the board
CTRL-E        -- on a blank line, enter paste mode
CTRL-F        -- on a blank line, do a hard reset of the board and enter safe boot

The rshell

Access command shell

make rshell

> help

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
args    cat  connect  echo  exit      filetype  ls     repl  rsync
boards  cd   cp       edit  filesize  help      mkdir  rm    shell

Use Control-D (or the exit command) to exit rshell.

Inspect device filesystem

make rshell
cd /flash
ls

The REPL

Access REPL shell

Connect to the REPL shell on the device:

make repl
Pycom MicroPython 1.20.0.rc11 [v1.9.4-0a38f88] on 2019-05-14; FiPy with ESP32

# General help
>>> help()

# List built-in modules
>>> help('modules')