VS Arduino - ESP32 Partition table modification

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ESP32 Partition table modification (Read 3802 times)

nicky Newbies Offline Posts: 3 Joined: Jun 13^th, 2020	ESP32 Partition table modification Jun 13^th, 2020 at 10:45am	Print Post
	I've changed the ESP32 partition table definition and created a new binary file. How do I get the compiler to use it?


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12204 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: ESP32 Partition table modification Reply #1 - Jun 13^th, 2020 at 12:31pm	Print Post
	The output requested in yellow above will show us what you need


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nicky Newbies Offline Posts: 3 Joined: Jun 13^th, 2020	Re: ESP32 Partition table modification Reply #2 - Jun 13^th, 2020 at 6:26pm	Print Post
	File attached. I'm trying to increase the memory available to my software and I don't need OTA capability so I've used the huge_app.csv partition table. There may be a better way of doing this... I'm guessing this is the line in question from the log file: s/gen_esp32part.exe" -q s/partitions/default.csv" lease/BLETest.ino.partitions.bin" So can I change that or do I need to rename the huge_app.csv file as default.csv?
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12204 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: ESP32 Partition table modification Reply #3 - Jun 13^th, 2020 at 8:45pm	Print Post
	Yes you can override the partion file in two ways however you should ensure you have reviewed the "Partion Schemes" on the vMicro menu. Those are the different schemes that ship with the board code. Keep in mind that what works for the Arduino IDE will also work for Visual Micro. This article shows how to use a custom esp32 partion Plus you can use a board.txt in the local visual micro project to override any properties. In this case the properties will be set without board prefix like this:- //board.txt Code build.partitions=MyCustomPartionFileName
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nicky Newbies Offline Posts: 3 Joined: Jun 13^th, 2020	Re: ESP32 Partition table modification Reply #4 - Jun 14^th, 2020 at 7:33am	Print Post
	Which bit of the vMicro menu is it under as I don't appear to have that option? Is it something to do with this? https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/issues/1906 as that's the board I have.
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Simon@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 2828 Joined: Feb 13^th, 2019	Re: ESP32 Partition table modification Reply #5 - Jun 15^th, 2020 at 11:15am	Print Post
	That is why the Partition Schemes are missing from the vMicro menu for your board, and you could add them in manually as noted on that thread. It may be worth adding a fresh request to that repository to get this updated in the core.


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