ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sun Sep 04, 2016 3:16 pm #54468 Hello,
i have some good experience with ESP12e items but never have done any firmware update...as my belief is that this does only make sense if LUA.....

Is that true or still with directly working via IDE it still is important to update firmware to get out the best of the ESP? If so, what exactly do I need to install/download in the ESP? (link?).
thank a lot, Norbert

- Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:59 am #54540 When using the Arduino core with the ArduinoIDE, the flash includes both your compiled code AND the ESP8266 firmware - each time.

Ray

- Wed Sep 07, 2016 4:55 pm #54666 aha, makes sense...

this means that the board updater would automatically take care to receive the latest available firmware? and flash it with every compilation procedure? right?

Thanks Norbert

- Fri Sep 09, 2016 10:44 am #54753

this means that the board updater would automatically take care to receive the latest available firmware? and flash it with every compilation procedure? right?

I think what should be said, is that every board version published by igrr has a "bound" binary that gets uploaded. I do not know how igrr validates & decides upon when these files gets updated. Probably the release notes cover the version but there must be some serious regression testing being done (staging version?) but I honestly have not dug into this very deeply as I think it is "what it is..."

Ray