ESPHome-Flasher is a utility app for the ESPHome framework and is designed to make flashing ESPs with ESPHome as simple as possible by:
- Having pre-built binaries for most operating systems.
- Hiding all non-essential options for flashing. All necessary options for flashing (bootloader, flash mode) are automatically extracted from the binary.
This project was originally intended to be a simple command-line tool, but then I decided that a GUI would be nice. As I don't like writing graphical front end code, the GUI largely is based on the NodeMCU PyFlasher project.
The flashing process is done using the esptool library by espressif.
It doesn't have to be installed, just double-click it and it'll start. Check the releases section for downloads for your platform.
If you want to install this application from pip:
- Install Python 3.x
- Install wxPython 4.x manually or run
pip3 install wxpython(see also linux notes below) - Install this project using
pip3 install esphomeflasher - Start the GUI using
esphomeflasher. Alternatively, you can use the command line interface ( typeesphomeflasher -hfor info)
If you want to build this application yourself you need to:
- Install Python 3.x
- Install wxPython 4.x manually or run
pip3 install wxpython - Download this project and run
pip3 install -e .in the project's root. - Start the GUI using
esphomeflasher. Alternatively, you can use the command line interface ( typeesphomeflasher -hfor info)
Installing wxpython for linux can be a bit challenging (especially when you don't want to install from source). You can use the following command to install a wxpython suitable with your OS:
# Go to https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux/gtk3/ and select the correct OS type
# here, we assume ubuntu 18.03 bionic
pip3 install -U \
-f https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux/gtk3/ubuntu-18.04 \
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