Upgrade firmware from command line

dwiel · August 13, 2019, 2:23pm

Is there a way to flash the firmware programmatically from a companion computer connected over USB? It appears there used to be a command line interface configuration tool, but it claims to have been deprecated in favor of MAVProxy. When I type help into MAVProxy however, none of the available commands seem to support flashing the firmware.

peterbarker · August 13, 2019, 11:59pm

Is there a way to flash the firmware programmatically from a companion computer connected over USB? It appears there used to be a command line interface

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ArduPilot/ardupilot/blob/master/Tools/scripts/uploader.py

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configuration tool, but it claims to have been deprecated in favor of MAVProxy. When I type help into MAVProxy however, none of the available commands
seem to support flashing the firmware.

That’s some pretty significant archeology there - CLI was removed years
ago

Peter

dwiel · August 14, 2019, 1:11am

perfect thanks - python code is even bettter