ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:45 am #933 This sounds great, awesome idea!
Do you plan to open-source your changes so that anyone can provide bugfixes?

Also, how would we flash the resulting ESP8266_XRST.bin to the chip, i.e. at which address should it be loaded with esptool?

Edit: Ah okay, so you basically just have to pull GPIO0 to GND and run esptool.py like this:

Code: Select allesptool.py -p /dev/ttyUSB0 write_flash 0x0 ESP8266_XRST.bin

Then disconnect GPIO0 and reset the ESP and it'll boot the new version

- Sat Sep 27, 2014 4:23 am #962 There are a LOT of hooks into proprietary code. I don't think I can opensource it without rewriting those parts.

BTW, I am working on a much bigger project which would require me to iron out all ESP8266 issues. This project will be using the native APIs from ESP8266 SDK and not the AT Firmware. That project, l'll open source when the time is right.

- Sat Sep 27, 2014 7:21 am #968

There are a LOT of hooks into proprietary code. I don't think I can opensource it without rewriting those parts.

You can always open source your code, you just can't GPL it. Use the MIT or LGPL license instead.

Where I get my modules