ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon Jan 12, 2015 4:12 pm #7128 Hi,

Is there a way I can create a .bin containing a spiffs filesystem and then flash it to the chip (e.g. using esptool.py)?

I know the filesystem lives in the flash somewhere, but I don't know what format it is in or how I might recreate it... Perhaps if I downloaded an example from the ESP I could poke around in it, but I'm not sure what address it lives at.

Or is there a better way?

Thanks, best

Hamish

Hamish Cunningham
https://hamish.gate.ac.uk/

- Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:41 pm #7163

Hi,

Is there a way I can create a .bin containing a spiffs filesystem and then flash it to the chip (e.g. using esptool.py)?

I know the filesystem lives in the flash somewhere, but I don't know what format it is in or how I might recreate it... Perhaps if I downloaded an example from the ESP I could poke around in it, but I'm not sure what address it lives at.

Or is there a better way?

Thanks, best

Hamish

https://github.com/xlfe/spiffy

- Sat Feb 07, 2015 2:24 pm #9202 If it is of any help, I wrote this little ruby script that will build the flash binaries to ease downloads when you want to include a spiffy file system in your flash image:

Code: Select all#!/usr/bin/env ruby

NODEMCU = "../nodemcu-firmware"
NODEBIN = "#{NODEMCU}/bin"
TOOLS   = "#{NODEMCU}/tools"
SPIFFY  = "../spiffy/build/spiffy"
DEST    = "./flash"
PORT    = "/dev/tty.usbserial-A9QHXRVN"

# cp lua app
system "mkdir -p #{DEST}"
system "cp #{NODEBIN}/0x00000.bin #{DEST}"
system "cp #{NODEBIN}/0x10000.bin #{DEST}"

# build file system
system "#{SPIFFY}"

# calculate address of files sys and place the file with new name
flashaddr = (0x10000 + File.stat("#{DEST}/0x10000.bin").size + 0x4000) & (0xFFFFC000)
system "mv spiff_rom.bin #{DEST}/0x#{flashaddr.to_s(16)}.bin"

# create download command
printf "python #{TOOLS}/esptool.py --port #{PORT} write_flash"
Dir["#{DEST}/*"].each do |file|
  printf " #{File.basename(file, '.bin')} " + file
end
print "\n"


- Sun Mar 01, 2015 3:02 pm #11046 Hi!

Is there any tool like spiffy for Windows?

Thanks,
Patriko