ESP8266 Community Forum

- Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:50 am #31332 Is anyone working on a way to have the module download and update its own firmware from a website? Checking for newer versions on startup and automatically updating would really be slick... I assume it would have to download the image first then reset and the bootloader would do the update.

- Thu Oct 15, 2015 8:42 pm #31470 I was asking the same question not too long agoe.

Have not managed to get it working yet but the thread was over here.

I believe you will need the latest staging version to attempt to get it working and if you have an esp 12 with the 4 mb flash you might get better results than me.

Please post up your code if you get it working as I am keen to get it going with one of my projects.

http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=4903&start=0

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- Tue Nov 10, 2015 8:35 am #33618 Doesn't the unit require a physical pin to be bridged/powered up in order to flash?

- Wed Nov 11, 2015 5:03 am #33686 this "physical pin" is needed to get into the "boot loader" that allows flashing via serial.
If the SDK provides routines to access the flash memory, this is _another_ way to flash.