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It is possible to flash the ESP8266 12-F with the raspberry UART or I2C pins ? Has anyone ever done this? Thank you.

EDIT: OK it's work, finally I just had big problems with my breaboard and my connections. ... enter image description here

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It is possible to flash the ESP8266 12-F with the raspberry UART pins ? Has anyone ever done this?

I've used the USB ports for this with esptool.py. 

esptool.py --port /dev/ttyUSB0 erase_flash
esptool.py --port /dev/ttyUSB0 write_flash -fm dio 0x00000 nodemcu.bin

I use "nodeMCU" style boards that have a micro USB jack (so using a normal micro USB cable). I also thought hardware flow control, which the Pi UART conventionally lacks, was necessary, but looking around this is not be the case, you just have to hold CH_PD and/or some other line high. So it should be possible.

I've found the serial interface on the ESP a bit fussy -- as in good ol' minicom is not reliable with it, the best thing seems to be miniterm.py, which is part of the pyserial package.

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  • Thank you for your reply. You use the usb port with additional FTDI for example ?
    – Ephemeral
    Jul 20, 2019 at 11:18
  • Thank you for your editing.
    – Ephemeral
    Jul 20, 2019 at 11:23
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    No, I use a micro USB cable directly; the nodeMCU ones are big breakouts with a jack on them. I may have used an FTDI cable at some point, I know I've had an ESP that required it (no jack on the breakout).
    – goldilocks ♦
    Jul 20, 2019 at 11:24
  • Thank you it's helpfull for understand.
    – Ephemeral
    Jul 20, 2019 at 11:25
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    typical current usage on ESP8266 less than 200mA, not more than 500mA @Ephemeral
    – Jaromanda X
    Jul 21, 2019 at 0:32

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