Hello,
I’m afraid its another newbie with an esp32 flash issues, any help would be deeply appreciated!
I’m attempting to flash a simple ESPHome .bin to my esp32 so I can get it up and running to work OTA.
The board is a MH-ET Live esp32 Dev board, purchased from Aliexpress. As it stands I got nothing attached to the board.
I’m running HA in docker on synology with the ESPHome addon, compiling and them downloading the .bin. Using esptool.py on a pi3B+ to do the actual flashing.
This is the .yaml:
On my pi I blank the flash with: esptool.py --chip esp32 erase_flash
I have to hold the boot button to get in flash mode, but it seems to do its job.
I then flash my .bin using: esptool.py --chip esp32 write_flash -z 0x00000 mh-et-live-espdevkit.bin
Again holding the boot button this seems to work.
I then reset with the onboard button but then it fails to boot. When I use the arduino ide serial monitor I get this error:
rst:0x10 (RTCWDT_RTC_RESET),boot:0x13 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT)
flash read err, 1000
ets_main.c 371
I’ve tried using an identical new board, selecting different boards in ESPHome, I’ve tried different locations (0x1000, 0x10000 & 0x00000), I’ve trued different write functions (dio and dout), I’ve used different cables, flashed then hooked it up to a separate usb power supply. I can flash the blink example for the onboard LED, which works fine.
And to top it all off I’ve managed to use the same process to flash a similar .bin to a wemos d1 mini without issue.
Any ideas as to what I have done or missed? Or do I accept it just not gonna work?
Thanks
