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SPIFFS and serial port monitor
Aug 24th, 2016 at 7:48am
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Hi,
I usually have the serial port monitor when developing to see my debug output.
I have found that when trying to upload SPIFFS data using the 'Publish server data files' menu item I have to manually disconnect (pressing the 'Connect' button) otherwise I get a comm error:
error: Failed to open COM20
error: espcomm_open failed
SPIFFS Upload failed!

Can the process be automated as per the normal upload?

  
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Re: SPIFFS and serial port monitor
Reply #1 - Aug 24th, 2016 at 8:34pm
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Thanks for the post.

If spiffs is using the serial port then you are right the port management could be better automated. 

I'll try to take a look.

Does spiffs allow network upload or only serial? I can't recall.
  
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Reply #2 - Aug 25th, 2016 at 6:09am
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I'm using serial - it can be done OTA as well if you write code for it.
  
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Reply #3 - Aug 25th, 2016 at 12:53pm
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Ok thanks
  
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Reply #4 - Aug 30th, 2016 at 4:32pm
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As a thought, it would be a nice feature to have a toolbar button for the Publish data files, or the ability to customise the toolbar to add it. 
I tried to customise my toolbar to add it but the menu item didn't seem to be available.
  
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Reply #5 - Aug 30th, 2016 at 4:40pm
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Yes good idea.

It should be available. Did you see the list of Visual Micro commands in the customise area and it was missing or didn't find the list of Visual Micro commands?
  
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Reply #6 - Aug 31st, 2016 at 4:05am
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It is missing. I click on the toolbar button and go:
Add or remove buttons
Customise
Add command
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The commands are listed but not the Publish server data files one.
  
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Reply #7 - Aug 31st, 2016 at 7:00am
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I think it is "SketchUploadWwwFiles" 

The same command is used for different boards such as the Arduino Yun. The Yun has the ability for on-board web server files uploaded via SSH from sketch\www.

As you know esp8266 spiffs is similar but different transport/upload (easier for me) and from folder sketch\data

  
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Reply #8 - Aug 31st, 2016 at 5:13pm
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Yes, that's the one - thanks. Would still appreciate com port connection management when using this function Smiley
  
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Reply #9 - Aug 31st, 2016 at 5:35pm
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Yes it's definitely on the short term list, makes a lot of sense
  
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Reply #10 - Jan 18th, 2017 at 8:05am
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Any idea on when this may get into the build?

Also, previously (I can't say when exactly) the tool output was displayed on the output window during assembly/upload. 

Currently nothing is shown until around 80% complete and with a message 'Process must exit before requested information can be determined.' The same is true both for upload using the COM port and for OTA. The Serial window exhibits the same delay on status information.
  
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Reply #11 - Jan 18th, 2017 at 1:31pm
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What version of esp8266 core are you using.

The spiffs stuff is managed by an .exe that has not changed. It was a direct copy of the jar files that the arduino ide uses for spiffs.

I can look at it no problem but please confirm the extact esp8266 hardware/board-manager version you are using.

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Reply #12 - Jan 18th, 2017 at 2:41pm
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Hi,
I'm using the esp8266 versión 2.3.0 and the latest visual micro build.
  
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Reply #13 - Jan 21st, 2017 at 5:42pm
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are we still talking about spiffs or does this now relate to normal upload?

If normal upload is it serial or using ip address?

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Reply #14 - Feb 6th, 2017 at 2:48am
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The spiffs upload has been improved. Serial does not yet auto disconnect and reconnect but the upload progress is much better.

There is a link to the next release at the top of this post if you want to try it.
  
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Reply #15 - Jun 5th, 2017 at 7:11pm
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Hi, any progress on the serial connect/disconnect - it isn't yet working on the latest 8th May build...
  
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Reply #16 - Jun 5th, 2017 at 7:14pm
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Sorry, it's almost top of the list. I had a lot of bugs related to vs2017 and Arduino changes/improvements for last release but the list is clearer now.
  
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Reply #17 - Jun 26th, 2017 at 12:32pm
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This is implemented in the next release 1706.25
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