Problems flashing and connecting ATOM Lite on Catalina 10.15.5 (19F101)

[rhumbertgz]

Hello,

I'm having problems setting up my Atom Lite. I'm new to M5 hardware but I have some experience as developer. Following the M5 documentation, I tried to flash the new firmware UIFlow v1.5.3 but I get the following error:

I found some related topics of other users having a similar issue in the past, however, none of their solutions worked for me.

I noticed that the esptool.py (2.5) bundled in the M5Burner electron app was the root of my issue, so I tried a newer version 2.8. Using this new version I had no issues importing the module named serial.tools.list_ports.

As the M5Burner wraps the esptool I tried to flash my Atom Lite with the latest esptool version (2.8) reusing the command shown on the above screenshot.

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esptool.py v2.8
Serial port /dev/tty.usbserial-1D52D60BA5
Connecting....
Chip is ESP32-PICO-D4 (revision 1)
Features: WiFi, BT, Dual Core, 240MHz, Embedded Flash, VRef calibration in efuse, Coding Scheme None
Crystal is 40MHz
MAC: d8:a0:1d:5c:96:40
Uploading stub...
Running stub...
Stub running...
Changing baud rate to 750000
Changed.
Configuring flash size...
Auto-detected Flash size: 4MB
Compressed 100 bytes to 43...
Wrote 100 bytes (43 compressed) at 0x003ff000 in 0.0 seconds (effective 213.7 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.
Compressed 4182016 bytes to 1548805...
Wrote 4182016 bytes (1548805 compressed) at 0x00001000 in 32.9 seconds (effective 1017.6 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.

Leaving...
Hard resetting via RTS pin...
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Based on the above output I think that the flashing was ok, but still, I can't connect my Atom Lite to the UIFlow IDE (Online/Desktop)

I get this error in both cases:
Upload code failed, maybe your device is offline check it and retry

After I reset the device I got the following output from the M5Burner COM Monitor

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/dev/tty.usbserial-1D52D60BA5
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
I (10842) network: event 3
ets Jun 8 2016 00:22:57

rst:0x1 (POWERON_RESET),boot:0x13 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT)
configsip: 188777542, SPIWP:0xee
clk_drv:0x00,q_drv:0x00,d_drv:0x00,cs0_drv:0x00,hd_drv:0x00,wp_drv:0x00
mode:DIO, clock div:1
load:0x3fff0018,len:4
load:0x3fff001c,len:5100
load:0x40078000,len:10596
load:0x40080400,len:5744
entry 0x400806c0
I (586) cpu_start: Pro cpu up.
I (586) cpu_start: Application information:
I (586) cpu_start: Compile time: Jun 2 2020 15:09:32
I (589) cpu_start: ELF file SHA256: 0000000000000000...
I (595) cpu_start: ESP-IDF: v3.3.2-3-ge185be0ce3
I (601) cpu_start: Starting app cpu, entry point is 0x40083e94
I (0) cpu_start: App cpu up.
I (612) heap_init: Initializing. RAM available for dynamic allocation:
I (619) heap_init: At 3FFAE6E0 len 00001920 (6 KiB): DRAM
I (625) heap_init: At 3FFBABF8 len 00025408 (149 KiB): DRAM
I (631) heap_init: At 3FFE0440 len 00003AE0 (14 KiB): D/IRAM
I (637) heap_init: At 3FFE4350 len 0001BCB0 (111 KiB): D/IRAM
I (644) heap_init: At 40097364 len 00008C9C (35 KiB): IRAM
I (650) cpu_start: Pro cpu start user code
I (220) cpu_start: Starting scheduler on PRO CPU.
I (0) cpu_start: Starting scheduler on APP CPU.
[ M5 ] node id:d8a01d5c9640, api key:MY_ATOM_KEY
I (677) system_api: Base MAC address is not set, read default base MAC address from BLK0 of EFUSE
I (678) system_api: Base MAC address is not set, read default base MAC address from BLK0 of EFUSE
I (811) phy: phy_version: 4180, cb3948e, Sep 12 2019, 16:39:13, 0, 0
I (10821) network: event 3
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Right now the atom's led is always RED

Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advanced,
Humberto

[m5stack]

you could pip install a pyserial module to solve it.

we will fix this bug in next version. thank you feedback

the LED always RED? which program are you use? if you want to use UIFlow . you could refer this tutorial :

https://docs.m5stack.com/#/en/quick_start/atom/atom_quick_start_uiflow

[rhumbertgz]

Hi @m5stack

you could pip install a pyserial module to solve it.

I tried that but the problem persists. As a quick fix, I just flashed it using a window virtual machine.

the LED always RED? which program are you use?

Yes, but after I flashed the new firmware everything is behaving well.

which program are you use?

It turned RED, after I tried to flash it with the newer esptool (2.8) as I showed in my initial topic

we will fix this bug in next version.

🤞🏻

Have a nice day