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Can I force a function to live in the boot sector without overwriting the bootloader?
The Optiboot version 8 has a do_spm function which can be called from application. The Optiboot repository contains an example for the use of this function.
SPM is the AVR CPU instruction to write to ...
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Executing machine code at runtime Uno
The microcontroller is executing one command at a time from..where?
Flash memory directly. The AVR core can only execute instructions from Flash memory. It uses a two-bus system known as Harvard ...
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EEPROM.get returns bad data
You are saving a String object in EEPROM, which is useless. A string
object does not store the contents of your string. Instead, it just
stores:
the memory address where the actual contents (the ...
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Using PROGMEM to store array of structs
An easy way of accessing any type of data in PROGMEM is to use this small library:
PROGMEM_readAnything.h
#include <Arduino.h> // for type definitions
template <typename T> void ...
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How can a function/method determine if a const array passed in is PROGMEM (flash) or not (RAM)?
I am afraid there is no good solution to this problem. One option I do
like is to use the __flash qualifier instead of PROGMEM:
const uint8_t ram_array[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4 };
__flash const uint8_t ...
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Extend program space by getting rid of bootloader on NANO
It's enforcing this line from the arduino:avr boards.txt
nano.menu.cpu.atmega328.upload.maximum_size=30720
To be clear, the board is assumed to have a bootloader, even if you're not using it to get ...
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What programming practices should be adopted while coding sketches for Arduino?
Paul covered the most important points. This answer is intended to be a
complement to his.
First, you should keep in mind the general rules, which are more
important than the more specific ones. The ...
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Is it possible to use extra AVR Flash memory as non-volatile EEPROM-like Flash memory storage?
Yes you can. This Arduino IDE add on lets you make calls to code store in the bootload of memory so you can make changes to the flash memory.
https://majek.sh/en/writing-to-internal-flash-on-arduino/
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Is it possible to use extra AVR Flash memory as non-volatile EEPROM-like Flash memory storage?
The answer is "yes, you can use extra AVR Flash memory as non-volatile EEPROM-like Flash memory storage, very similar to an STM32 microcontroller."
One of these days I'm going to write an Arduino ...
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Store floats in and reading them from flash
There is a helper macro in avr-libc that is designed just for this purpose:
#define pgm_read_float_near(address_short) __LPM_float((uint16_t)(address_short))
Read a float from the program space with ...
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Set EEPROM from PC before program
The simplest way would be to have two sketches.
One that will store all the strings into EEPROM.
After that you can upload the second actual sketch that uses the values stored in EEPROM.
You ...
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Writing your own Arduino flashing tool
This application already exists. It's called AVRDUDE:
http://www.nongnu.org/avrdude/
You can download it compiled for Windows at the link above. This is the very flashing tool that the Arduino IDE ...
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How can a function/method determine if a const array passed in is PROGMEM (flash) or not (RAM)?
There is also an OO solution possible, using the strategy design pattern, but this comes with some (slight) memory and performance penalties. You need to use C++ for this.
Put each array you want to ...
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How can a function/method determine if a const array passed in is PROGMEM (flash) or not (RAM)?
I will expand on KIIV's comment here.
This is a known issue to the people who wrote the Arduino framework. Essentially, the pointers to PROGMEM and RAM are both data pointers (think of a pointer like ...
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How do I get the size of my program at runtime?
Just to warn you, I minimally tested this, but it seems to work.
In the Due's linker script there are these relevant lines, containing the named rom section.
MEMORY
{
rom (rx) : ORIGIN = ...
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Set EEPROM from PC before program
I think here is a confusion about the three types of memory. EEPROM, FLASH and SRAM are completely separate. EEPROM is like your file storage. FLASH contains you program and static values. SRAM is the ...
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What programming practices should be adopted while coding sketches for Arduino?
Keep in mind that RAM is even less. 32KB is a fair lot of code, since C/C++ is highly efficient. "Don't save **** in RAM."
If you need to load images into a display, save the images on an SD card. ...
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What protocols and tools does Arduino Due use for flashing and debugging?
The Due (more specifically the SAM3X) uses its own proprietary protocol. It's all embedded in the bootloader, which is hard wired in the ROM and can never be changed (idiotic if you ask me).
I know ...
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How to save a hex file into Arduino Flash to send it via Serial?
If I understand your question correctly, you need to integrate this data into a .ino script. Probably as a byte array. Then the script can read the array and Serial.write its content.
You could ...
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Flashing ESP8266 over WiFi whith samrtphone?
ESP8266 OTA can be performed through a web browser as detailed in the ESP8266 OTA information page.
Since a smartphone has a web browser I can see no reason why you can't use that.
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Trying to flash ESP8266 with Arduino UNO
You do not need the level shifter. The input pins of the ESP8266 contain over-voltage (though not over-current) protection. All you need to do is limit the current that can flow through the over-...
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Flashing an ATtiny85 with a NodeMCU?
It can be done. Your Digispark has SPI pins, which are ISP pins. For the esp8266 there is an ESP8266AVRISP library for OTA upload to AVR. You can use the example of the library.
You must wire the SPI ...
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AVR-GCC can't call function located on fixed address
I've tried this code with arduino and it worked (i taught, of course, i can't add the "-Wl,--section-start=.app_start=0xFA0" flag to the compilation process so the function not gonna be moved to other ...
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Can't flash ESP8266 anymore (NodeMCU)
The fix ended up being to use a 220ohm resistor between D3 and GND (It has been pointed out, though I haven't tested it, that just wiring D3 to ground on startup should have the same effect). Then ...
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Reading contents of ESP8266 Flash from inside sketch
I think you're reading of flash is slightly wrong
while ESP.flashRead takes a unit32_t pointer for output data, the read "count" argument is in bytes - looking at Updater.cpp code it does this
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EEPROM.get returns bad data
Just to have the full working code, I ended up with this:
#include <EEPROM.h>
char serial_characters[] = {"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789"};
// 7 chars for serial and one for string end '...
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ESP8266 OTA update with different flash size settings?
The basic problem is that when you upload over OTA you don't upload the partition structure.
The ESP32's flash is split into a number of "partitions" or areas. It might look something like:
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ESP32: best way to embed certificates
I don't know what you need that Preferences thing for, but I would use SPIFFS/FAT anyway. Simply store the certificate in a file in flash and read that file when you need it. The required space is no ...
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D1 mini esp8266 error: esptool.FatalError: Failed to connect to ESP8266: Timed out waiting for packet header
I'm not sure if this will help EVERYONE, but I hope it at least helps someone. I had the same issue with several different boards (3 Nano's, 2 NodeMCU ESP8266's, and 1 Uno). I searched and searched ...
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PROGMEM: do I have to copy data from flash to RAM for reading?
Arduino documentation says, it is possible to keep constants like strings or whatever I don't want to change during runtime in program memory.
All constants are initially in program memory. Where ...
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