Pycom firmware upgrade

Introduction

As the Pycom firmware is continuously evolving, you might also like to run their most recent release on your device.

Note

Please take into consideration that we are outlining our best practices here.

• We always try to run the most recent release available either from the Pycom firmware download page or firmware images we are creating ourselves.

• Saying that, you must not hold us accountable for anything that might go wrong with your device in any way when following these recommendations. There’s always a chance that things might go south.

• At the time of this writing, we are running Pycom MicroPython 1.20.2.rc6 successfully on the FiPy.

• When upgrading, please use the LittleFS filesystem to prevent filesystem corruption in brownout conditions.

See also

• https://community.hiveeyes.org/t/squirrel-firmware-for-pycom-esp32/2960

• https://packages.hiveeyes.org/hiveeyes/foss/pycom/vanilla/

Prerequisites

apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/hiveeyes/terkin-datalogger.git
cd terkin-datalogger

Attention

Please make sure to backup the configuration file settings.py before.

In a nutshell

Install recent firmware image:

# Investigate and define serial port.
make list-serials
export MCU_PORT=/dev/cu.usbmodemPy001711    # libero

# Erase device completely.
# !!! ATTENTION: This will purge all files from the device !!!
make erase-device

# Download and install most recent firmware for FiPy.
export MCU_DEVICE=FiPy
make install-pycom-firmware

Install specific firmware image:

make install-pycom-firmware pycom_firmware_file=FiPy-1.20.2.rc6-0.10.1-vanilla-squirrel.tar.gz