Latest Firmware for Atom Lite



  • Does the Atom Lite come with the latest firmware installed or is there a newer version than Micropython-1.12? I found some firmware on the MicroPython site but when I load it everything appears to go as expected but then I can't reach my Atom Lite via VSCode afterwards. I can put everything back using M5Burner but wanted the newer firmware. Has anyone else trien to update the firmware and if so where did you find it and what version did you use? Thanks in advance.

    Here are the results of my attemp showing no errors:

    python -m esptool --chip esp32 --port COM11 write_flash -z 0x1000 M5STACK_ATOM-20220618-v1.19.1.bin
    esptool.py v3.2
    Serial port COM11
    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: 4c:75:25:d7:8e:90
    Uploading stub...
    Running stub...
    Stub running...
    Configuring flash size...
    Flash will be erased from 0x00001000 to 0x0017cfff...
    Compressed 1554752 bytes to 1026054...
    Wrote 1554752 bytes (1026054 compressed) at 0x00001000 in 93.4 seconds (effective 133.1 kbit/s)...
    Hash of data verified.

    Leaving...
    Hard resetting via RTS pin...



  • Are you installing the core Micropython for the ESP32 Pico D4?
    Core MP does not have any of the M5Stack libraries.



  • I wanted to try this CircuitPython https://circuitpython.org/board/m5stack_atom_lite/

    or

    v1.9.1 from here https://micropython.org/download/M5STACK_ATOM/

    Thanks for responding.



  • @wwhite don’t know about circuit python but mainstream python can be installed using the Thonny IDE
    I have 1.19 running on M5Stamps at the moment but you have to remember that Mainsteam MP won’t have the M5Stack specific libraries