Can't get it working for ESPEasy 2.0 and ESP8285 about espbuddy

[soif]

I'm currently working on a fix for one of my small 1M devices.
I'm faced with a similar issue that prevents OTA to work on latest ESPEasy dev firmwares.

To verify if it is the same issue, try to monitor your ESP on SerialPort
espbuddy.php monitor sonoff_touch espeasy_1024_8285 -v --rate=115200 --port=/dev/xxx

while starting an OTA upload on another console:
espbuddy.php upload sonoff_touch espeasy_1024_8285 -vb

If this is the same issue, you should see a message saying OTA : Error (will reboot): Begin Failed

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BTW in order to get OTA working, your current running firmware MUST have be compiled with the FEATURE_ARDUINO_OTA defined, ie:

$my_espeasy_flags=''-DFEATURE_ARDUINO_OTA; or de-commented in the ESPEASY.ino file.

You can verify on the boot log in the serial console that you really have a message saying: OTA : Arduino OTA enabled on port 8266

[lhurt]

Hi,
thanks for the reply. As I flashed the precompiled firmware on the Touch device I assume that the option was disabled.

Btw. How to I monitor the serial port (on Windows)?
Do I have to wire the ESP to the USB TTL converter?
I never did that before.

Thanks

[soif]

As I flashed the precompiled firmware on the Touch device I assume that the option was disabled

Yes Option is disabled by default

How to I monitor the serial port (on Windows)? Do I have to wire the ESP to the USB TTL converter?

yep or you can monitor serial directly on the web , or on a syslog server (see ESPeasy avanced setting about this)

[lhurt]

Hi,
now I'm pretty confused. I recompiled ESPEasy with OTA enabled. On reboot the console reads "OTA : Arduino OTA enabled on port 8266". But telnet to this port results in "connection refused" and manual execution of espota.py says "No response from device".

Any idea what to do?

[soif]

you certainly need to provide the login/password

[lhurt]

I didn't set any

[lhurt]

I don't use espurna. I'm using ESPEasy.

[soif]

sorry my bad

[lhurt]

I'll recompile and test again. May be I did something wrong.
I used the EspBuddy build script. May be I should use Arduino IDE,

[soif]

this may be because the firmware you try to upload is too large:

Connect to the Web GUI of the intermediate firmware (if it has been succefully uploaded), read the max size for flash, then compare it to the firmware size. if firmware is larger, espota.py fails with a message that dont explain that at all..

BTW use EspBuddy to upload, not EspOta.py directly

[soif]

Also be sure to use the LATEST EspBuddy, and take a look at the new config-sample

[lhurt]

OK,
one step forward.

After recompiling the dev-12 firmware with OTA enabled again and flashing it to my Sonoff Touch the upload of the intermediate image was successful.

The relevant output of EspBuddy is

** Uploading Intermediate Uploader Firmware ****************************************************************************
-> /opt/EspBuddy/bin/espota.py -r -d -i 192.168.1.61  -f "/opt/EspBuddy/firmwares/ESPEasyUploaderMega.OTA.1m128.bin"
21:06:43 [DEBUG]: Options: {'esp_ip': '192.168.1.61', 'host_port': 33502, 'image': '/opt/EspBuddy/firmwares/ESPEasyUploaderMega.OTA.1m128.bin', 'host_ip': '0.0.0.0', 'auth': '', 'esp_port': 8266, 'spiffs': False, 'debug': True, 'progress': True}
21:06:43 [INFO]: Starting on 0.0.0.0:33502
21:06:43 [INFO]: Upload size: 288064
21:06:43 [INFO]: Sending invitation to: 192.168.1.61
21:06:43 [INFO]: Waiting for device...
Uploading: [============================================================] 100% Done...

21:06:52 [INFO]: Waiting for result...
21:06:52 [INFO]: Result: OK


** Waiting  16 sec for ESP to reboot 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  ********


** Uploading Final Firmware ********************************************************************************************
-> /opt/EspBuddy/bin/espota.py -r -d -i 192.168.1.61  -f "/tmp/EspBuddy/wc-schalter-160.fritz.box/Firmware-espeasy_1024_8285-v20100.bin"
21:07:08 [DEBUG]: Options: {'esp_ip': '192.168.1.61', 'host_port': 13149, 'image': '/tmp/EspBuddy/wc-schalter-160.fritz.box/Firmware-espeasy_1024_8285-v20100.bin', 'host_ip': '0.0.0.0', 'auth': '', 'esp_port': 8266, 'spiffs': False, 'debug': True, 'progress': True}
21:07:08 [INFO]: Starting on 0.0.0.0:13149
21:07:08 [INFO]: Upload size: 607856
21:07:08 [INFO]: Sending invitation to: 192.168.1.61
21:07:18 [ERROR]: No Answer

FATAL ERROR: Upload Failed !!!

The output of the serial console is

OTA  : Start upload
OTA  : Progress 100%
OTA  : End

OTA  : DO NOT RESET OR POWER OFF UNTIL BOOT+FLASH IS COMPLETE.

 ets Jan  8 2013,rst cause:1, boot mode:(3,7)

load 0x4010f000, len 1384, room 16
tail 8
chksum 0x2d
csum 0x2d
v09826c6d
@cp:0
     ld
       system param error
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Exception (29):
epc1=0x4000e1c3 epc2=0x00000000 epc3=0x00000000 excvaddr=0x00000018 depc=0x00000000

ctx: cont
sp: 3fff05c0 end: 3fff0a70 offset: 01a0

>>>stack>>>
3fff0760:  4023972d 00000017 60000200 40106d24
3fff0770:  4021a9ad 402360a6 00000001 402138ce
3fff0780:  29323200 40215e97 3fff26f4 3fff219c
3fff0790:  4021abee 3fff26f4 3fff219c 00000000
3fff07a0:  3ffeee20 3ffeda70 3ffed9ec 3fff219c
3fff07b0:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
3fff07c0:  00000018 00000064 80940162 fffeffff
3fff07d0:  3ff20a00 0000ffff 3fff07f8 4021653a
3fff07e0:  3ffed9ec 3fff219c 3fff219c 00000000
3fff07f0:  80940162 3fff6d79 00000000 00000000
3fff0800:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
3fff0810:  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
3fff0820:  00000000 00000000 00000000 4021768c
3fff0830:  3fff219c 00000000 3ffeee20 402176d4
3fff0840:  00000000 3ffeda70 3ffee7f8 00000000
3fff0850:  40227095 00000003 00000003 4020323c
3fff0860:  402271e5 00000003 00000003 000e2100
3fff0870:  3ffedbe4 4022726e 00000003 00000001
3fff0880:  402075ff 3ffef7b4 00000001 00000000
3fff0890:  40207630 000e2100 3ffef7b4 40207652
3fff08a0:  3fff1388 3ffeee20 3ffeee40 40207c0f
3fff08b0:  3fff1980 00000100 0000000b 40203741
3fff08c0:  3fff1388 3fff1844 000e2100 3fff196c
3fff08d0:  3fff1388 3fff1844 000e2100 40205ab1
3fff08e0:  00000005 3fff0910 00000000 00000000
3fff08f0:  00000000 00000000 00000000 3fff1790
3fff0900:  00000071 00007100 3fff1388 40203440
3fff0910:  00000002 000000fc 00001000 63657301
3fff0920:  00000001 3fff09f0 00000074 3ffef964
3fff0930:  00000010 3fff09d4 00000000 4010053d
3fff0940:  00000100 3fff1388 3fff178c 40205698
3fff0950:  000000b1 00000000 3fff0966 3ffefa48
3fff0960:  00000010 3fff09d4 3fff09d4 4020ddfc
3fff0970:  3ffe883c 00000000 3fff09d4 4020de4b
3fff0980:  00000000 3ffef7b4 00000001 3fffdad0
3fff0990:  40227e7b 3ffef98c 3fff09d4 3ffeee20
3fff09a0:  00000001 3ffeee04 3ffef7b4 40207d90
3fff09b0:  3fffdad0 3ffeee04 3ffef7b4 40207279
3fff09c0:  3ffeee20 00000001 3fff1dc4 4020e92b
3fff09d0:  3ffeee20 3fff1dc4 0000000f 00000000
3fff09e0:  3ffeee20 000000a0 3fff0a10 4020d196
3fff09f0:  3fff1dc4 3fff1e04 00000000 00000000
3fff0a00:  3ffeee20 000000a0 000000a0 4020706d
3fff0a10:  3ffe8d90 00000000 000003e8 3ffefa48
3fff0a20:  00000003 00000000 3fff1384 4020f217
3fff0a30:  3fffdad0 3ffef98c 3ffef98c 3ffefa48
3fff0a40:  3fffdad0 3ffef98c 3ffef7b4 402073cc
3fff0a50:  feefeffe 00000000 3ffefa40 4020e5f8
3fff0a60:  feefeffe feefeffe 3ffefa50 40100718
<<<stack<<<

 ets Jan  8 2013,rst cause:1, boot mode:(3,7)

load 0x4010f000, len 1384, room 16
tail 8
chksum 0xef
csum 0xef
csum err
ets_main.c
 ets Jan  8 2013,rst cause:4, boot mode:(3,7)

wdt reset
load 0x4010f000, len 1384, room 16
tail 8
chksum 0xef
csum 0xef
csum err
ets_main.c

Unfortunately the intermediate image somehow doesn't connect to wifi.

Any idea why?

I can reflash it with my dev-12 firmware and start over but this is the point where I'm stuck right now. And yes I'm using the HEAD version. But it seems to be an issue with the minimal intermediate image.

Thanks for being patient.

[soif]

log seems to show that the image is crashing. It might also be due to the Spiffs settings being corrupted.
I might advise to first re uload a recent image using serial, with a prior flash erase
espbuddy upload espeasy_1024_8285 -vbwe (b=vuild, w=serial, e=erase first)
then, once you have set your wifi settings in espeasy, after a hardware reboot, try to re-upload the same firmware OTA, using the intermediate step.

espbuddy upload espeasy_1024_8285 -v

If it crashes again, that would mean there may be an issue with intermediate firmware on ESP8265.

Thanks for the tests

PS: you can always open a second terminal session during the OTA with 👍
espbuddy monitor espeasy_1024_8285 -v to see what's going on.

[lhurt]

Next obstacle

After erasing the flash completely and flashing a release version of the ESPEasy firmware I had to enable OTA in the advanced settings.

But the firmware reboots as soon as the intermediate image is about to be uploaded.

EspBuddy output

** Uploading Intermediate Uploader Firmware ****************************************************************************
-> /opt/EspBuddy/bin/espota.py -r -d -i 192.168.1.61  -f "/opt/EspBuddy/firmwares/ESPEasyUploaderMega.OTA.1m128.bin"
10:16:45 [DEBUG]: Options: {'esp_ip': '192.168.1.61', 'host_port': 30434, 'image': '/opt/EspBuddy/firmwares/ESPEasyUploaderMega.OTA.1m128.bin', 'host_ip': '0.0.0.0', 'auth': '', 'esp_port': 8266, 'spiffs': False, 'debug': True, 'progress': True}
10:16:45 [INFO]: Starting on 0.0.0.0:30434
10:16:45 [INFO]: Upload size: 288064
10:16:45 [INFO]: Sending invitation to: 192.168.1.61
10:16:45 [INFO]: Waiting for device...
10:16:55 [ERROR]: No response from device

FATAL ERROR: First Upload Failed !!!

Serial console output

Normal boot

INIT : Booting version:
INIT : Warm boot #1
FS   : Mounting...
FS   : Mount successful, used 75802 bytes of 113201
CRC  : No program memory checksum found. Check output of crc2.py
CRC  : Settings CRC           ...OK
CRC  : SecuritySettings CRC   ...OK
INIT : Free RAM:20128
INIT : I2C
INIT : SPI not enabled
WIFI : AP Mode disabled
WIFI : AP Mode ssid will be ESP_Easy_0 with address 192.168.4.1
WIFI : Connecting domum nostrae attempt #1
WIFI : Connected! IP: 192.168.1.61 (ESP_Easy_0)
OTA  : Arduino OTA enabled on port 8266
WD   : Uptime 0 ConnectFailures 0 FreeMem 16336
WD   : Uptime 1 ConnectFailures 0 FreeMem 16152

Start of ota

OTA  : Error (will reboot): Begin Failed

 ets Jan  8 2013,rst cause:1, boot mode:(3,6)

load 0x4010f000, len 1384, room 16
tail 8
chksum 0x2d
csum 0x2d
v09826c6d
~ld
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INIT : Booting version:
INIT : Warm boot #2
FS   : Mounting...
FS   : Mount successful, used 75802 bytes of 113201
CRC  : No program memory checksum found. Check output of crc2.py
CRC  : Settings CRC           ...OK
CRC  : SecuritySettings CRC   ...OK
INIT : Free RAM:20000
INIT : I2C
INIT : SPI not enabled
WIFI : AP Mode disabled
WIFI : AP Mode ssid will be ESP_Easy_0 with address 192.168.4.1
WIFI : Connecting domum nostrae attempt #1
WIFI : Connected! IP: 192.168.1.61 (ESP_Easy_0)
OTA  : Arduino OTA enabled on port 8266
WD   : Uptime 0 ConnectFailures 0 FreeMem 16208
WD   : Uptime 1 ConnectFailures 0 FreeMem 16304

May be this is an issue with the firmware or I just do something wrong. But I just compile the ESP with OTA support enabled.

My ESPeasy version was mega-20180228

I'm about to give up.

[soif]

Sometimes OTA fails the first time (so it reboots) and you have to insist.

Also the 'mega' branch is supposed to be large, so if you don't strip it down by removing a lot of plugins, it can simply not work, because there is not enough size for the 2 firmwares.

You have to first check that : firmware size + intermediate firmware size + Spiff size < 1M

see:
https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/ESPEasy#2.0.2B_firmware_on_1MB_modules

[lhurt]

I'm aware of that. My build is 605kb of size which should work.
BTW. When testing the procedure described in the article I already bricked one device.

• the upload and reboot of the intermediate image worked fine
• the upload of the new large image did not.

I don't require automation for the update but a working process (read firmware would help)
It seems to me that the ESP8285 is a little special compared to the ESP 8266 although it's claimed that it has only flash included in the package.

[soif]

605kb is TOO MUCH !!!!

• when you connect (using web) to the intermediate firmware (the one linked in the wiki), it shows : Max sketch size: 604kB
• when you connect (using web) to MY intermediate firmware (the one bundled with EspBuddy), it shows : Max sketch size: 592kB

This IS your (first) issue !

You MUST make tests with SMALLER firmwares : remove most of the plugins, then build.

In my case removing the followings :

_P014_SI7021.ino
_P015_TSL2561.ino
_P018_Dust.ino
_P024_MLX90614.ino
_P031_SHT1X.ino
_P032_MS5611.ino
_P039_Thermocouple.ino
_P041_NeoClock.ino
_P042_Candle.ino
_P045_MPU6050.ino
_P046_VentusW266.ino
_P047_i2c-soil-moisture-sensor.ino
_P048_Motorshield_v2.ino
_P049_MHZ19.ino
_P050_TCS34725.ino
_P051_AM2320.ino
_P052_SenseAir.ino
_P056_SDS011-Dust.ino
_P066_VEML6040.ino
_P067_HX711_Load_Cell.ino
_P068_SHT3x.ino
_P069_LM75A.ino
_P071_Kamstrup401.ino
_P072_HDC1080.ino

produces a 590kb firmware (on today mega branch). But you should even remove more plugins , (just to be sure that the size is small enough), as most are really not needed for your own device.

BTW I had a problem similar to yours for one of my esp8266 which hanguped during the final OTA. 🐛

I finally re-built the intermediate firmware using different compilation settings, and this fixed the issue for both of my boards. I even tried to flash with a 8285 firmware and it also worked. 🎉 🎉

So I suggest you to retry with the latest v1.75. It might fix your issue too ! 😸

To be sure that the test is correct please do things in the following order.

1. be sure in the git repo to have a smaller ESPEasy version, then :
   espbuddy upload espeasy_1024_8285 -vweb (serial upload, wipe before, build first)

2. Set OTA on in the advanced settings, then reboot

3. espbuddy upload espeasy_1024_8285 -v (to re-upload the same firmware OTA)
   Opening a serial monitor (in a second window) during this step would help to understand what is happening espbuddy monitor espeasy_1024_8285

If it doesn't work : Try to power off / power on the device after step 3 is completed (sometimes it helps) else retry all from scratch

[lhurt]

You're great. Thanks for your patience very much.
Now it worked. I added some addtional modules to the list and my firmware was down to 550k.
After that everything worked like a charm.

Thanks very much.

May be you can help me with two additional questions.

1. Is there a way to modify the $my_espeasy_flags variable to add a list of plugins not to compile?
2. Is it possible to modify existing Sonoffs without flashing them manually. E.g. by uploading the intermediate firmware via Web Interface, enable OTA and then do the upload of the new firmware via the espota.py command?

Thanks very much.

[soif]

🎉 Happy that you finally succeeded to use EspBuddy!!! While ALL of your issues was not especially related to EspBuddy itself ...

1. I can't master that myself : It's related to ESPEasy itself : ask them for a BUILD method to enable/disable plugins on built (a very USEFUL feature IMHO)

2. I'm not sure to understand what exactly is your question.....

[lhurt]

Thanks for the fast reply.
Yes I know 95% of the errors sit in front of the screen :-)

To question 2. I have a number of sonoff touch switches running vanilla ESPEasy dev-12 (without OTA). I'd like to update them and don't like the idea to remove them from the wall, hooking them up and reflashing them.
So my idea was to upload the intermediate firmware of EspBuddy via ESPEasy web interface and after reboot the should be OTA flashable. Then espota.py or a configuration with the two step process disabled of EspBuddy could do the rest.
It would be just good to get a confirmation of you if this is a feasible approach?

BTW. By disabling a ton of plugins my firmware is now 487344 bytes. This should be small enough to do the upgrade in one step. Right? Interested in the list?

[soif]

2. Yes you should be able to upload my intermediate firmware, then either update OTA, either upload using the builtin webserver. EspBuddy can skip the first step just by adding the -s, but it wont hurt if you'd do the 2 steps starting from the manually uploaded intermediate firmware.

Interested in the list?

for sure

[lhurt]

Thanks.
One more thing. Is it possible to define more than one espeasy repository in espbuddy's config.php? I want to create scripted copies of the original ESPEasy firmware with different plugin configurations. As far as I understand, currently only one espeasy repository is supported.
Correct?

[soif]

yep

BTW I will soon add a 'checkout' host parameter , so that you could use different branches / host or configs , and checkout theses branches in each upload. Hence solving your issue

[lhurt]

Thanks very much.

[lhurt]

BTW this is my list of disabled plugins

_P003_Pulse.ino
_P004_Dallas.ino
_P005_DHT.ino
_P006_BMP085.ino
_P007_PCF8591.ino
_P008_RFID.ino
_P009_MCP.ino
_P010_BH1750.ino
_P011_PME.ino
_P012_LCD.ino
_P013_HCSR04.ino
_P014_SI7021.ino
_P015_TSL2561.ino
_P016_IR.ino
_P017_PN532.ino
_P018_Dust.ino
_P019_PCF8574.ino
_P021_Level.ino
_P022_PCA9685.ino
_P023_OLED.ino
_P024_MLX90614.ino
_P025_ADS1115.ino
_P027_INA219.ino
_P028_BME280.ino
_P029_Output.ino
_P030_BMP280.ino
_P031_SHT1X.ino
_P032_MS5611.ino
_P034_DHT12.ino
_P035_IRTX.ino
_P036_FrameOLED.ino
_P038_NeoPixel.ino
_P039_Thermocouple.ino
_P040_ID12.ino
_P041_NeoClock.ino
_P042_Candle.ino
_P044_P1WifiGateway.ino
_P045_MPU6050.ino
_P046_VentusW266.ino
_P047_i2c-soil-moisture-sensor.ino
_P048_Motorshield_v2.ino
_P049_MHZ19.ino
_P050_TCS34725.ino
_P051_AM2320.ino
_P052_SenseAir.ino
_P053_PMSx003.ino
_P054_DMX512.ino
_P056_SDS011-Dust.ino
_P057_HT16K33_LED.ino
_P058_HT16K33_KeyPad.ino
_P059_Encoder.ino
_P060_MCP3221.ino
_P061_KeyPad.ino
_P062_MPR121_KeyPad.ino
_P063_TTP229_KeyPad.ino
_P064_APDS9960.ino
_P065_DRF0299_MP3.ino
_P066_VEML6040.ino
_P067_HX711_Load_Cell.ino
_P068_SHT3x.ino
_P069_LM75A.ino
_P070_NeoPixel_Clock.ino
_P071_Kamstrup401.ino
_P072_HDC1080.ino
_P073_7DGT.ino
_P074_TSL2591.ino

[soif]

thanks 🎉

[Oxyandy]

BTW in order to get OTA working, your current running firmware MUST have be compiled with the FEATURE_ARDUINO_OTA defined, ie:

$my_espeasy_flags=''-DFEATURE_ARDUINO_OTA; or de-commented in the ESPEASY.ino file.

Not sure about above comment ^^, I fixed OTA on my Sonoff Basic devices, using an initial uploader and modified firmware.
I did not need to recompile anything to make it work such as - enable OTA
It works really, really well - over 99% of the time, first time it just works..
The 1% just needs a second try to work. ;)
I can flash my Sonoff from R78 - R148 to v2.0.0-dev4 - v2.0.0-dev13 & even latest Mega releases
(although very latest maybe now getting too large)
However I did modify all firmwares to ensure they worked correctly..
And... I do use the devices web-page...

Do you mean you need to 'enable ota' to 'push' the update via http ?
Cheers

[soif]

Do you mean you need to 'enable ota' to 'push' the update via http ?

No as stated this was needed to get OTA working.

[Oxyandy]

Ok curious, for me with my 1M Sonoff Basics, with DOUT uploader & modified original releases, it works perfect through the browser "Tools -> Firmware -> Load" without recompiling.
Thanks for your response, still learning