Hi,
I'm running on my ESP8266 board OTA firmware. I can Update firmware remotely on my ESP8266 board with Arduino IDE, but when I try to upload OTA via Visual MIcro I get this:

This board does not support network upload
Have you selected the right board and port?

Why this happen?

Regards

Hi,
let me know if you need more detail. I use as board "Generic ESP8266 Module" added to Arduino via Board Manager from this link:
http://arduino.esp8266.com/staging/package_esp8266com_index.json

After this loading an OTA Firmware to ESP Board, the board will send via mDNS it's address to IDE.

Let me know if somethisg else needed.

Regards

Yes,
the IP address of the board appear into Serial Port List

Hi,
to run OTA on ESP Module, python 2.7 is needed.

Marco

Hi,
I'm using Arduino 1.6.5
I Installed Python 2.7
I Installed board from board manager from url: http://arduino.esp8266.com/staging/package_esp8266com_index.json

Then to OTA I select:
Board: Generic ESP8266 Module
Flash Mode: QIO
Flash Frequency 40Mhz
Upload Using OTA
CPU Freq: 80 Mhz

I put nothing into sketchbook/tools

Let me know If more information needed

let me know if you need something else.
Thanks for your work

Marco

Hi,
this evening I'll give a try. I'm out for work now.

Thanks and regards

Hi

We can sort the dots out when its working no prob

Can you switch on "visual micro>verbose messages", then click upload and post or email the output

info[at]visualmicro.com

Thanks

Thanks for the email. 

Please open arduino ide, switch on verbose compile and verbose upload in "file>preferences" then upload.

Then copy all of the output and email.

Thanks very much

Thanks very much

That's very interesting/confusing. 

The difference is going to be there are quotes around the ip address "192.168.x.x" with visual micro and not with arduino 192.168.x.x

Visual micro doesn't make the commands it reads them from the esp8266 definition files. You can see below what is in the defs (ie: -i "{serial.port}" )

tools.esptool.upload.network_pattern="{network_cmd}" "{runtime.platform.path}/tools/espota.py" -i "{serial.port}" -p "{network.port}" "--auth={network.password}" -f "{build.path}/{build.project_name}.bin" 

So I have to look into when it might be allowable to clear quote marks (which normally need to remain for all other boards. The arduino ide is managing to work it out so there is obviously a magical bit of logic or a setting somewhere.

It will take a few days but I've got an esp to play with so hope to see it working.

For reference:-

arduino ide upload command (paths edited)

python.exe C:\Users\[name]/tools/espota.py -i 192.168.1.131 -p 8266 -f C:\Users\[name].cpp.bin  

visual micro build command

python.exe "C:\Users\[name]/tools/espota.py" -i "192.168.1.131" -p 8266 -f "C:\Users\[name]uliss_ESP8266_PowerSocket_DHT.bin" 

The file name is okay but the quotes around the file name might be a problem.

I see that all quotes have been removed from the upload command yet not from the compiler commands.

Maybe there is a config switch if not I will add one to visual micro for the esp boards. 

It also will mean resolving file paths to the older 8.3 format other spaces in file names will break without quotes. I see this is what the arduino ide does but only for the upload command and not for compiler commands.

It's just weird

Hi,
I installed lastest version and seems that remote programming for ESP is working.
I'll do more test and I'll back.
Thanks and regards

Hi,
I did all installing and configuring boards activity from Arduino IDE so I not fall into that issue.

Thanls and regards

Marco