Mac

Installation

1. Download the FwUpdater-mac.pkg from Releases page.
2. Run the downloaded .pkg file.
3. If you already have the old version of pycom-firmware-updater just accept all alerts.

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Windows

Installation

1. Download the FwUpdater-windows.exe from Releases page.
2. Run the downloaded .exe file.

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Ubuntu

Installation from archive

1. Download the FwUpdater-debian.tar.gz from Releases page.
2. Extract archive to some directory.
3. Open the terminal.
4. Run ./create-service.sh {path_to_dir_with_extracted_files}. The path should be absolute(from your /home/ directory).

Snap Installation

1. sudo snap install pycom-firmware-updater

2. sudo snap set system experimental.hotplug=true

3. sudo systemctl restart snapd

4. type snap interface serial-port. In the output you will see slots section. For example:

   name: serial-port

   summary: allows accessing a specific serial port

   plugs:

   • pycom-firmware-updater

   slots:

   • snapd:expansion3 (allows accessing a specific serial port)

5. sudo snap connect pycom-firmware-updater:serial-port snapd:expansion3. snapd:expansion3 is the name of the hotplug slot from the command above. If you have some other name paste it instead.

6. snap connect pycom-firmware-updater:raw-usb

7. run snap connections pycom-firmware-updater in the 3d(Slot) column on the raw-usb and serial-port lines shouldn't be '-'.

8. run the app by typing pycom-firmware-updater.

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Common Problems

If you have the [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/fwUpdater.pem' error log do next: sudo rm -rf /tmp/snap.pycom-firmware-updater/tmp/fwUpdater.pem