Flash binary without re-compile

[GrahamS]

Hi,
OK so I am quite happy compiling code using the Dev environment. Then I can flash into my USB-connected Photon - all goes very well.

BUT - it seems that there is then no way to send that same binary image to another Photon - withut plugging it into my USB ???. Seems I have to re-compile it every time

So - OK its probably me - and I must be missing something…but I ‘think’ I have looked everywhere I can think of ???.

The problem is of course compounded if I have a version of code built with a previous firmware release (like 0.4.6 for example) as the Web IDE is the only (as yet) environment where I can define the firmware to build against ??.

What (I think) we really need is to be able to tell CLI particle flash xxxxx mycode.bin
but it doesn’t work

Don’t get me wrong - I think the Photon is a wondrous beast, and want to deploy more of them…LOTS more

Thing is that I have a colleague who is testing the ‘product’ before making it live - so I need to send him a binary and say put this into all your test boards…currently he needs to plug each one into a USB

Many Thanks
BR
Graham

[bko]

If you don’t want to flash via DFU-Util, you can do it over the air. Please read the doc here:

https://docs.particle.io/reference/api/#flash-a-device-with-a-pre-compiled-binary

[ScruffR]

@GrahamS

What (I think) we really need is to be able to tell CLI particle flash xxxxx mycode.bin

I can't quite follow this.
If I enter particle flash I get this response

NAME:
particle flash

DOES:
flash remotely pushes a compiled firmware binary to one of your devices over the air, or directly
over USB / dfu. If you send it one or more source files, or a directory of source, it will compile
that remotely first, and push the compiled binary to your device instead, or in the case of code errors
will show you the errors from the server.

You can also substitute "tinker", "voodoo", or "cc3000" to flash the provided app.

particle flash --usb tinker
particle flash my_device tinker

USE:
particle flash [--usb or device_id] firmware.bin
particle flash [--usb or device_id] source_folder
particle flash [--usb or device_id] file1.ino file2.cpp file2.h file3.cpp

[GrahamS]

Hi,
Yup I just managed to do it :-O. The first few times I tried it didn’t seem to work :-O.

Sorry I seem to have been talking out of my ****

Mind you I also just had a 'mare getting some variables registered on the same module. Kept loading the code and it just didn’t seem to do it - nor did it report a failure…theres a Gremlin in my code somewhere…

Sorry to have bothered you again - I did try quite a few times though - honest guv’…

Mind you - your doc tells me a different way :-O.

Are you sure you didn’t just change this feature :-O. I swear that an hour or two back the following did not work !! - hence my post…

CLI particle flash xxxx mycode.bin

Now it works like a charm ;-)).

If you didn’t change it - I’m going mad - if you did GREAT - MANY THANKS

Pity the evidence scrolled off my CMD window …

BR
Graham

[ScruffR]

Has been there as long I know CLI

[GrahamS]

Hi,

So sorry - I tried this quite a few times some time back and gave up - then again this afternoon and it still didn’t seem to work.

Looks like I have 8 major problems then - 4 on each hand

Thanks once again…

BR
Graham