NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Fri, 15 May 2020 08:46:29 GMT

I am able to resolve that SDK issue

thanks for your time.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Hung Bui — Fri, 15 May 2020 08:04:25 GMT

Please follow the documentation: https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/com.nordic.infocenter.sdk5.v14.2.0/sdk_app_serial_dfu_bootloader.html?cp=7_5_3_4_4_2

You need to install micro ecc (step 2)

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Thu, 14 May 2020 09:30:02 GMT

I am trying with secure dfu serial example on nordic DK SDk 14.2., will get back to you with results.

and my SDK version is 14.2, will this example work for 14.2 as well?

SDK 14.2 example secure_dfu_serial is not working it is throwing error

SEGGER/SEGGER Embedded Studio for ARM 4.18/gcc/arm-none-eabi/bin/ld: cannot find ../../../../../external/micro-ecc/nrf52hf_armgcc/armgcc/micro_ecc_lib_nrf52.a: no such file or directory.

I am bit confused even if SDK 14.2 support serial DFU or not.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Hung Bui — Thu, 14 May 2020 08:31:53 GMT

I have an example of combining UART DFU and BLE DFU in SDK v15.2 that you can download here: https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/35431/dfu-over-ble-and-usb/166471#166471
But before that please make sure you can do UART DFU with the stock UART bootloader.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Thu, 14 May 2020 04:52:10 GMT

Apologies for not making myself clear.

I meant is Serial DFU and BLE DFU are present in Examples in SDK14.2.

What I am doing is, I had a code that supports BLE DFU and working fine. In the same code I had enable the Serial DFU also. But only use one at a time, either use BLE or use Serial.

In the field I don't have any BLE connections at client site so in that case I will using Serial DFU to upgrade my nrf firmware and where BLE is available I will be using BLE DFU.

I have to implement those feature in same firmware because I am not aware which device will be going to client, so all devices should support both.

So, after all I did I am getting this error that I had mentioned earlier.

Is there any way to resolve this error because my DFU controller is ready for testing, only this error is causing problems.

Please suggest what should I do in this.

Currently I am trying with example for Serial DFU mentioned in SDK 14.2 will share the results here.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Hung Bui — Wed, 13 May 2020 12:52:40 GMT

I'm not aware of an example in SDK v14.2 that support both BLE and Serial. From where you got it ?

Again, please try to always test with stock example first and make sure it works before you test with anything else.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Wed, 13 May 2020 09:33:59 GMT

On bootloader I didn't make any changes:

I am using SDK 14.2 that supports BLE DFU and Serial DFU both.

Yes with PC using NRF util I am getting same response.

DFU master I had studied that packet protocol that needed to be sent and design a logic accordingly.

After more debugging I had observed that -

sd_flash_page_erase(p_op->erase.page + p_op->erase.progress);

This function is not returning only in case of serial dfu but working fine in BLE DFU.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Hung Bui — Wed, 13 May 2020 09:12:28 GMT

It's been a few months so I would need to have an update of what you are working on.

On the bootloader side, did you modify anything ? Have you tried to test doing DFU to a unmodified bootloader from PC (instead of ESP) ?

On the DFU master side, have you managed to build it ? Have you tested that with unmodified bootloader ?
Which SDK version are you working on ?
Are you combining BLE DFU bootloader and UART DFU bootloader ?

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Tue, 12 May 2020 14:10:38 GMT

Softdevice is present. But I had a doubt that why it is working in BLE mode but not in Serial mode.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Hung Bui — Tue, 12 May 2020 11:56:48 GMT

Please check if you have the softdevice when you test with the serial DFU ?
Without softdevice, the flash storage library to be used is nrf_fstorage_nvmc.c .

If there is the softdevice , then flash storage backend library to be used is nrf_fstorage_sd.c

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Tue, 12 May 2020 11:39:01 GMT

    if (    ((page_addr & (p_fs->p_flash_info->erase_unit - 1)) != 0)
        ||  !addr_within_bounds(p_fs, page_addr, (len * p_fs->p_flash_info->erase_unit)))
    {
	
        return NRF_ERROR_INVALID_ADDR;
    }
    print(LL_INFO,"333333\n");
    return (p_fs->p_api)->erase(p_fs, page_addr, len, p_context);

This code is not returning during execution of OP command in serial DFU mode but working in BLE DFU .

I am not able to understand the reason, any suggestions please!

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Tue, 12 May 2020 05:56:12 GMT

I am successful to get the debug logs and I found that after sending the INIT file, what I observed that when device is trying to write the update dfu settings then device got stuck and also it is happening during flash erase only.

But when I do same over BLE its working, code won't stuck and erase successful works.

I am not able to understand the reason behind this, is there any difference between Ble DFU and Serial DFU which makes this happens

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Tue, 12 May 2020 05:55:26 GMT

But when I do same over BLE its working, code won't stuck and erase successful works.

I am not able to understand the reason behind this, is there any difference between Ble DFU and Serial DFU which makes this happens

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vincent Smf — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:57:52 GMT

Workaround could be :
Dump your working DFU serial connection to a file.
Host the file.
Then replay the serial connection from the ESP.

To dump, work from source of pc-nrfutil, identify the serial output and redirect it to a file.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Hung Bui — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:31:09 GMT

Please try to do an "nrfjprog.exe --eraseall" in the command line.
You can also find the .hex file in the build folder and flash it manually using either nrfjprog or use nRF Connect programmer tool.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:04:59 GMT

I am using Keil v5 now, and error I am getting is Fail to download flash - "Cortex-M4"

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:54:57 GMT

Hi,

In SES only after providing the path to the library I am able to compile the code but It is saying slip_encode is not defined even I am able to see that in slip.c library, also I had removed that #ifdef in Slip.c

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Hung Bui — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:10:51 GMT

Slip.h is located in \components\libraries\slip you need to add that path into the project's include folder.

I would strongly suggest you to install Keil v5. It's free to use if the compiled file <32kB which is the case of the example.

From that it's easier to port to your SES project.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:46:34 GMT

I am able to resolve that now I am issue with slip.h, no such file or directory

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:02:55 GMT

It is in \example\ble_peripherals.

I am using SES for testing purpose first, then I will move to GCC for my project.

Still getting the error.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Hung Bui — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:34:38 GMT

Have you put the project into SDK v14.2 \example\peripheral folder ?

nrf_log_backend_serial.c is located at \components\libraries\experimental_log\src

I have only modified the KEIL project, not the SES or IAR or GCC.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 06:36:44 GMT

I downloaded the example DFUMaster_Uart example

1. Open the project file and try to build the code.

2. I get nrf_log_backend_serial.c - no such file or directory.

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Hung Bui — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:07:58 GMT

I have the list of steps, please let me know if you have performed all the steps.

We can't review the code just based on "it doesn't work".

You need to debug the bootloader to find the reason.

What was the issue with the UART DFU master example ? Which error do you have ?

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 06:29:44 GMT

I am trying to implement you code UART DFU Master example, but not able to compile it. So what I did to compare the code with my DFU controller code that I had written in esp8266.

Both the codes are same.

I also traced the uart lines using logic analyzer and data tx rx is also good and expected values.

Still when I send the execution command I am not able to receive any response from the device.

I am sending the .dat file, renamed as init_1.bin file in our server and also compare the data for any type of data corruption. Data is also correct.

Is possible can we have a code review session on this?

RE: NRF52832 Firmware Upgrade using Esp8266

Vaibhav_Bansal — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 04:51:42 GMT

Hi Hung

I will work on this will let you know the results.

SDK verison of my application is 14.2.

I am planning to upgrade my device firmware on same version. I had devices deployed in the field with some features that has connectivity over BLE and Wifi. As for firmware upgrade BLE instance and user is not available , and device will work automatically over Wifi only.

So I want to upgrade the device firmware over Wifi.