Moteino wireless programming source code

I managed to put together a library and refactor the code that I used to achieve Moteino wireless programming.

There’s a new WirelessHEX file in the SPIFlash library. There are new WirelessHEX classes for RFM12B and RFM69W/HW transceivers. These files contain helper code that handles the new sketch over-the-air transmission for both the transmitting and receiving ends. It will increase your sketch size by a few KB, that is just an unavoidable tradeoff.

The target node that is to be wirelessly reprogrammed will need to have code to listen for a potential new sketch. I uploaded the example sketch along with everything else to the RFM12B library examples.

The gateway node sketch, target node sketch, python script that passes the HEX file to gateway node are all located here: 

https://github.com/LowPowerLab/WirelessProgramming

The custom DualOptiboot bootloader allowing the reflashing with the sketch stored on the external SPI FLASH memory chip is here: https://github.com/LowPowerLab/DualOptiboot
I managed to keep the size just under 1k. So in the future Moteinos will probably ship All Moteinos (R2 and R3) are now shipping with this bootloader to allow for potential wireless reprogramming if you also have the FLASH chip onboard the target mote.

I would call this an alpha release even though it works pretty well. Sometimes it’s a hit or miss because of the delays I’ve set in python. Those could be refactored and code improved to be smarter about initial requests for a sketch transmission. But it seems in most cases it works the first try.

Further improvements are:

  • increase speed of transmission
  • test with larger sketches
  • refactor python script, WirelessHEX library and gateway/target node sketches

I’ll try to keep up with changes and updates. Right now I have no idea if anyone will find this useful or not.

3 thoughts on “Moteino wireless programming source code

  1. I’m new-ish to this sort of thing and don’t really know what to search for; can you provide a link to a SPI Flash chip that is suitable for the Moteinos? I am very interested in the wireless programming of the nodes.

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