Cross-compiler and Cargo extension for flashing Espressif devices.
Supports the ESP32, ESP32-C2/C3/C6, ESP32-H2, ESP32-S2/S3, and ESP8266.
If you are installing cargo-espflash from source (ie. using cargo install) then you must have rustc>=1.70.0 installed on your system.
If you are running macOS or Linux then libuv must also be installed; this is available via most popular package managers. If you are running Windows you can ignore this step.
# macOS
brew install libuv
# Debian/Ubuntu/etc.
apt-get install libuv-dev
# Fedora
dnf install systemd-develTo install:
cargo install cargo-espflashAlternatively, you can use cargo-binstall to download pre-compiled artifacts from the releases and use them instead:
cargo binstall cargo-espflashIf you would like to flash from a Raspberry Pi using the built-in UART peripheral, you can enable the raspberry feature (note that this is not available if using cargo-binstall):
cargo install cargo-espflash --features=raspberryBy default, in Unix systems, we use the vendored-openssl Cargo feature which may require additional tools such as perl and make. To disable this feature, use:
OPENSSL_NO_VENDOR=1 cargo install cargo-espflash
Cargo subcommand for flashing Espressif devices
Usage: cargo espflash <COMMAND>
Commands:
board-info Print information about a connected target device
completions Generate completions for the given shell
erase-flash Erase Flash entirely
erase-parts Erase specified partitions
erase-region Erase specified region
flash Flash an application in ELF format to a target device
monitor Open the serial monitor without flashing the connected target device
partition-table Convert partition tables between CSV and binary format
save-image Generate a binary application image and save it to a local disk
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
In Linux, when using any of the commands that requires using a serial port, the current user may not have access to serial ports and a "Permission Denied" or "Port doesn’t exist" errors may appear.
On most Linux distributions, the solution is to add the user to the dialout group (check e.g. ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 to find the group) with a command like sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER. You can call su - $USER to enable read and write permissions for the serial port without having to log out and back in again.
Check your Linux distribution’s documentation for more information.
It is not currently possible to use cargo-espflash from within WSL1. There are no plans to add support for WSL1 at this time.
It is also not possible to flash chips using the built-in USB_SERIAL_JTAG peripheral when using WSL2, because resetting also resets USB_SERIAL_JTAG peripheral, which then disconnects the chip from WSL2. Chips can be flashed via UART using WSL2, however.
cargo-espflash is able to detect if the package being built and flashed depends on esp-idf-sys; if it does, then the bootloader and partition table built by the esp-idf-sys build script will be used, otherwise the bundled bootloader and partition tables will be used instead.
If the --bootloader and/or --partition-table options are provided then these will be used regardless of whether or not the package depends on esp-idf-sys.
You're able to specify paths to bootloader and partition table files and image format in your package's Cargo metadata for per-project configuration:
[package.metadata.espflash]
bootloader = "bootloader.bin" # Must be a binary file
partition_table = "partitions.csv" # Supports CSV and binary formats
format = "direct-boot" # Can be 'esp-bootloader' or 'direct-boot'It's possible to specify a serial port and/or USB VID/PID values by setting them in a configuration file. The location of this file differs based on your operating system:
| Operating System | Configuration Path |
|---|---|
| Linux | $HOME/.config/espflash/espflash.toml |
| macOS | $HOME/Library/Application Support/rs.esp.espflash/espflash.toml |
| Windows | %APPDATA%\esp\espflash\espflash.toml |
You can either configure the serial port name like so:
[connection]
serial = "/dev/ttyUSB0"
Or specify one or more USB vid/pid couple:
[[usb_device]]
vid = "303a"
pid = "1001"
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