FEATURE REQUEST: Command line firmware downloader

[billyzelsnack]

Talk about not a fun process.

make
switch to robot terminal
connect
############ + reset on CM5
load
transmit hex files
reset on CM5 again
disconnect
switch to app

or...

make
switch to app

haha. Basically I want a command line tool that'll download a given hex file to the cm5 firmware and optionally reset it.

usage:
cm5_download_firmware <firmware.hex> [reset]

I could add it to the makefile and it would be all automagical when I run make.

I know you Robotis guys read these forums.. You gotta have this tool. Where is it!! You would go crazy otherwise! haha.

[inaki]

Why don't you write a simple terminal program to do that ?

[billyzelsnack]

From a post in the avrdude thread it seems it might be more complicated than that. Raw text until you get to the 'load' bit and then you need to send via xmodem or zmodem or something.

Still.. Robotis must have a tool or use something like avrdude for this. Releasing tools to the community to lower the barriers to create cool stuff is in the best interest for them.

[inaki]

When I say 'terminal program' I don't mean ASCII. You can write easily a program that transfer binary data. You don't need Xmodem nor any protocol like that.

[billyzelsnack]

I mentioned this in the avrdude thread, but I've now written a little program that lets me do this. I'll be cleaning it up and posting an exe as well as the source soon.