Flash Tasmota to Sonoff using Raspberry Pi
I'm using a Raspberry Pi to slash the firmware. I find this simplier that using a USB TTY device plus I also have a number of Raspberry Pi's lying around.
Prerquisite
Install PIP
apt install python3-pip sudo pip3 install esptool
Change Config Files
Serial device --> /dev/ttyAMA0
cmdline.txt
vi /boot/cmdline.txt
delete
"console=serial0,115200"
config.txt
vi /boot/config.txt
add
"enable_uart=1"
Flashing
Display Existing
esptool.py --port /dev/serial0 flash_id
Backup
esptool.py --port /dev/serial0 read_flash 0x00000 0x400000 sonoff-image4M-stock.bin
Erase
esptool.py --port /dev/serial0 erase_flash
Flash
Here I'm downloading the sonoff.bin file from thehackbox but writing the file as sonoff-6.7.1.bin. At time of download the version has probably changed, so write the file as per the correct version number so you know which version of the file you have.
wget http://thehackbox.org/tasmota/release/sonoff.bin -O /home/pi/Downloads/sonoff-6.7.1.bin
esptool.py --port /dev/serial0 write_flash -fm dout 0x0 /home/pi/Downloads/tosmato-sonoff-6.7.1.bin
Configure
Once the firmware has been upload you will need to connect to the Sonoff device via a custom SSID that the device is now advertising. The default IP is 192.168.4.1
Log onto the device using the Raspberry Pi. Connect to the WEB console and then issue the following commands to configure your device. Just configure the Wi-Fi settings for now to connect to your network. Once changed you can then do the rest of the configuration from any other computer on the same network.
Log onto the web interface of the sonoff device. Frro Main Menu, Console.
backlog ipaddress1 10.13.13.238; ipaddress2 10.13.13.254; ipaddress3 255.255.255.0; ipaddress4 8.8.8.8 backlog ntpserver au.pool.ntp.org; timezone +10; Latitude -27.475646; Longitude 153.030499 backlog PowerOnState 1; teleperiod 20; PowerRetain 1 backlog MqttUser username; MqttPassword passw0rd; Topic laundry; FriendlyName laundry; MqttHost 10.13.13.253 module 43
Field | Description |
ipaddress1 | IP address |
ipaddress2 | gateway |
ipaddress3 | IP mask |
ipaddress4 | DNS |
Modules
Number | Descrption |
0 | Generic |
1 | Basic |
4 | TH |
5 | Dual |
43 | Pow R2 |
....and many more.
Termite
apt install gtk-doc-tools intltool gobject-introspection libglib2.0-dev libtool gtk+-3.0 gnutls-bin pango-graphite git clone --recursive https://github.com/thestinger/vte-ng /usr/src/vte-ng cd /usr/src/vte-ng bash autogen.sh sudo apt install vte-2.91 sudo git clone --recursive https://github.com/thestinger/termite.git /usr/src/ cd /usr/src/termite make