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Steve,<br>
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I know of no case of bricking by flashing the firmware.<br>
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Using the developing environment, a simple "make app-flash" will do
the esptool call for you.<br>
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Of course you can also flash OTA. I usually flash my
desk/development module by USB and the one in my car via Wifi from
my local server. It's up to you. Flashing OTA can only update the
firmware, but that's normally sufficient.<br>
<br>
The "-dirty" tag is appended when building from a "dirty" working
tree, i.e. one with uncommitted changes.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Michael<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 05.12.20 um 11:40 schrieb Steve
Davies:<br>
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width="1" height="1">Hi Mark et-al,
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<div>I've installed the esp32 and the esp-idf environments on my
Mac and successfully build the OVMS firmware.</div>
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<div>In the developer guide it then covers how to flash the
box with esptool.</div>
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<div>But: do I need to do that? - my OVMS box is up and running
already - </div>
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<div>I'm guessing I can use OTA update to update with </div>
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<div><font face="monospace">steve@maximus OVMS.V3 % ls -l
build/ovms3.bin<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve staff 2986336 Dec 5 12:24
build/ovms3.bin</font><br>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">?</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Since the "flash from web"
and and "flash from file" are looking for an ovms.bin.</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Nervous to brick my box
since it was expensive to get it to Cape Town.</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">By the way, my build prints
'App "ovms3" version: 3.2.015-162-g10232c58-dirty'</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I recognise the git commit
hash, but what is the "-dirty"?</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(I build a "bmwi3" branch of
a fork of the original project - maybe that answers my own
question?)</font></div>
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<div>My OVMS box currently says it's running "<span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica
Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">3.2.015/ota_0/main
(build idf v3.3.2-881-g22d636b7b Sep 2 2020 08:32:35)"</span></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thanks,</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Steve</font></div>
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