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I created a GUI for Esptool-ck using Red programming language( http://www.red-lang.org/ ):

https://github.com/Ungaretti/Gui-for-esptool-ck


Esptool-ck is a program writen in C to flash firmware to the ESP8266. Don't confuse it with exptool.py, a python program that does pretty much the same thing, but requires python installed in your computer.

Esptool-ck is small (36KB!) and versatile. It's the tool the Arduino IDE uses to flash programs to the ESP8266. However it's a CLI program, that is, no Graphic User Interface. I wrote this script in Red to give it a basic interface to be used with NodeMcu boards and Windows.

About my GUI:

Pros:

- detects serial ports available (up to COM9 only)
- checks to see if the binary file was made for the memory size you selected and patches the file if needed!

Cons:

- NodeMcu boards only. As it is, it uses the eptool-ck's "nodemcu reset mode".
- Windows only. It interfaces with Windows' command prompt.
- Only a sub-set of esptool-ck's are available, and only those related to flashing NodeMcu boards. No aspects of the conversion of ELF files into BIN files is explored at the moment.

Thank you for this software. I was having issues with some of my ESP8266-01s. I have tried various flashers without success. Termite can communicate so the modules are "good"?

To be clear, this did not solve my problem. However I do appreciate another flashing widget.

It's always cool to build your own stuff However, if you just wanted to have a well-maintained GUI tool for flasher you could have picked https://github.com/marcelstoer/nodemcu-pyflasher from yours truly. Self-contained binaries are available for macOS and Windows.

marcelstoer wrote:It's always cool to build your own stuff However, if you just wanted to have a well-maintained GUI tool for flasher you could have picked https://github.com/marcelstoer/nodemcu-pyflasher from yours truly. Self-contained binaries are available for macOS and Windows.

Yes Marcel, I appreciate your program very much. It's the best tool for programming the ESP8266 in my opinion. I still use it a lot, since it has some options that I did not include in my GUI. Thank you for it!