- Mon Jan 09, 2017 9:53 pm
#60768
esptool.py v2.0 is now in beta release. Most of the features relate to ESP32, but ESP8266 users are not left out - writing to flash now transparently compresses the data for better performance.
V2.0 is not available in pypi yet, but you can get it on github:
https://github.com/themadinventor/esptool
Some performance numbers, writing a 432KB firmware image with the new version. If you can use a high baud rate the difference is minor, but at lower baud rates it's quite significant:
Default baud rate (115200bps):
1.5megabit baud rate (-b 1500000)
Other new features that apply to ESP8266 include --before and --after options for changing the reset behaviour before and after esptool.py runs.
Please report any bugs or feature requests via the Github issues page.
V2.0 is not available in pypi yet, but you can get it on github:
https://github.com/themadinventor/esptool
Some performance numbers, writing a 432KB firmware image with the new version. If you can use a high baud rate the difference is minor, but at lower baud rates it's quite significant:
Default baud rate (115200bps):
- esptool v1.3 39.6s total, 38.6s spent flashing (92.4kbit/s)
- esptool v2.0 29.4s total, 27.5s spent flashing (effective 128.9kbit/s)
1.5megabit baud rate (-b 1500000)
- esptool v1.3 6.9s total, 5.9s spent flashing (604kbit/s)
- esptool v2.0 6.6s total, 4.6s spent flashing (755kbit/s)
Other new features that apply to ESP8266 include --before and --after options for changing the reset behaviour before and after esptool.py runs.
Please report any bugs or feature requests via the Github issues page.
