Coexistance of nrfutil for standard ble dfu and mesh dfu

RE: Coexistance of nrfutil for standard ble dfu and mesh dfu

Joakim Jakobsen — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:21:35 GMT

Thanks!

I'll close the ticket.

If you have any further questions, you are welcome to create a new ticket here on devzone.

Best regards,
Joakim

RE: Coexistance of nrfutil for standard ble dfu and mesh dfu

Shubham — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:16:19 GMT

Welcom!

I think you can close this ticket now.

RE: Coexistance of nrfutil for standard ble dfu and mesh dfu

Joakim Jakobsen — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:49:58 GMT

Thanks for sharing your solution.

Best regards,
Joakim

RE: Coexistance of nrfutil for standard ble dfu and mesh dfu

Shubham — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:07:36 GMT

Thanks Joakim,

I found an alternative for it. I used virtualenv, one for mesh_dfu branch and one for master.

Built the package for each one and added the alias for the binaries in bashrc, one for nrfutil(master branch) and nrfutil_mesh(mesh_dfu branch).

Even this is working fine.

-Shubham

RE: Coexistance of nrfutil for standard ble dfu and mesh dfu

Joakim Jakobsen — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:12:03 GMT

Hi.

[quote user="Shubham"]Because, python2.7 will be absolete by the end of this year.[/quote]

As stated in the documentation, nrfutil (mesh) is a legacy serial tool written for py2.

This might get an update in future releases.

Documentation:

Important note about Python
Python is not required to build the mesh stack and examples. The nRF5 SDK for Mesh uses both Python 3.5 and Python 2.7.

Tasks that require Python 3:

working with Interactive PyACI script Mesh tool
generating SEGGER Embedded Studio projects
building documentation

Tasks that require Python 2:

starting DFU transfer with nrfutil. This is a legacy serial tool written for py2.

RE: Coexistance of nrfutil for standard ble dfu and mesh dfu

Shubham — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:03:49 GMT

Hi,

I worked but is there any other way? Because, python2.7 will be absolete by the end of this year. So we may have to migrate to python3. Is there a way to install it at custom path, dropping nrfutil for mesh binary at different path?

-Shubham

RE: Coexistance of nrfutil for standard ble dfu and mesh dfu

Joakim Jakobsen — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 07:06:19 GMT

Hi.

There should be no issue with having both versions installed at the same time.

[quote user=""]I did a small hack for this.[/quote]

Don't see any problem doing it like this, as long as it works for you.

Best regards,
Joakim