M5Stack-SD-Updater

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M5Stack-SD-Updater

Closed this issue 6 years ago · 8 comments

Congrats for such a project, it's not easy to fit all this in just one sketch :-)

I've just tested the SD-Updater with this project and it seems to fit well, just to let you know you could easily maintain several themed versions of the M5Stack-MultiApp (i.e. WiFi tools, LoRa tools, games, utilities) and make them load each other from one extra menu.

This way you aren't limited by sketch size while still keeping the multi-app spirit :-)

Easy implementation:

pio lib install "M5Stack-SD-Updater" (will install globally so no need to pollute your /lib folder or even use a git submodule)

Add #include "M5StackUpdater.h" in your main.cpp

Compile your alternate MultiApps and copy the binaries on the microSD.

Call updateFromFS(SD, "/some-binary-name.bin"); from anywhere in your code when you need to load the alternate MultiApp.

I can do a pull request of this if you're interested.

Answer 1 · 2018-05-01T13:59:25.000Z

I know about the sdupdater. I went the other way with this multiapp.
It was a personal challenge to add as much as possible on one project without need to reflash like the sdupdater do.
I added the libs to local storage because i modified them to fit the needs of this project. So any begginer can compile this firmware.
I can easely bypass the sketch size limit by making a custom partition table for ESP32 that will allow me to upload firmwares larger than 1310720 bytes.

Answer 2 · 2018-05-03T16:28:15.000Z

Thanks for reopening this thread 👍

You sure managed to fit many apps in there, how many more do you plan to add? I'm very curious to see how big this can grow :-)

I loved to play with your code, it's very clean and well assembled but I can't say I understood all of it as some OOP concepts are still nebulous to me ^^

The thing is I could easily get the sd menu loader to work without hitting any limitation at all and found the sd-loading feature is completive to the multi app in a very pleasant way.

Are you open to feature requests or suggestions?

Answer 3 · 2018-05-03T16:42:58.000Z

yes. the problem with sd loader is that you can't change the partitions when loading. so loading very large apps (over 1.3Mb) will damage the partition table. Try to load my firmware using the sdloader, then check the SPIFFS status on sysinfo.

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On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 7:28 PM, tobozo ***@***.***> wrote: Thanks for reopening this thread 👍 You sure managed to fit many apps in there, how many more do you plan to add? I'm very curious to see how big this can grow :-) I loved to play with your code, it's very clean and well assembled but I can't say I understood all of it as some OOP concepts are still nebulous to me ^^ The thing is I could easily get the sd menu loader to work without hitting any limitation at all and found the sd-loading feature is completive to the multi app in a very pleasant way. Are you open to feature requests or suggestions? — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AfNKzyEOAGS3r8_zUI4mrOxRacE-WN4Rks5tuzAfgaJpZM4TjBvG> .

Answer 4 · 2018-05-03T18:21:14.000Z

it says:

FLASH SIZE: 4194304
SPIFFS SIZE: 1374476 
SPIFFS USED: 0

Is the SPIFFS_SIZE wrong? The binary size on my hard drive is 1.2MiB (1.253.056) and 1.374.476 seems big.
SPIFFS_USED=0 seems normal as the M5updater doesn't copy SPIFFS content.

Or maybe this is the real issue?

Could empty SPIFFS partition on M5Updater load eventually be solved by having the MultiApp auto-formatting SPIFFS & copying RadioStations.txt and index.html on first load?

Answer 5 · 2018-05-04T05:18:30.000Z

yes... i can do that... but then will be hard for user to add more stations to the list...

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On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 9:21 PM, tobozo ***@***.***> wrote: it says: FLASH SIZE: 4194304 SPIFFS SIZE: 1374476 SPIFFS USED: 0 Is the SPIFFS_SIZE wrong? The binary size on my hard drive is 1.2MiB (1.253.056) and 1.374.476 seems big. SPIFFS_USED=0 seems normal as the M5updater doesn't copy SPIFFS content. Or maybe this <espressif/arduino-esp32#1184> is the real issue? Could empty SPIFFS partition on M5Updater load eventually be solved by having the MultiApp auto-formatting SPIFFS & copying RadioStations.txt and index.html on first load? — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AfNKzyHJUrh6j5E3DO0_T7Hj4qIAY-Jgks5tu0qagaJpZM4TjBvG> .

Answer 6 · 2018-05-04T07:37:48.000Z

hehe I see a good excuse to add a playlist editor app 😆
Also since there's a WiFi configurator, it would'nt be a problem to have the M5 download this file directly from your repo, right? ☎️ 🏠

Answer 7 · 2018-05-04T15:37:09.000Z

what file are you referring to? The radio stations list ? Users might want to add their favorite radio stations there. That file is easy to edit in notepad and save it to SD...

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On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 10:37 AM, tobozo ***@***.***> wrote: hehe I see a good excuse to add a playlist editor app 😆 Also since there's a WiFi configurator, it would'nt be a problem to have the M5 download this file directly from your repo, right? ☎️ 🏠 — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AfNKzzikUzlgKwZN9IJwp14us5ocuOYDks5tvAVMgaJpZM4TjBvG> .

Answer 8 · 2018-05-08T12:58:41.000Z

okay I just found out the SD_data folder isn't supposed to be uploaded via SPIFFS lol