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esptool.py
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A command line utility to communicate with the ROM bootloader in Espressif ESP8266 & ESP32 microcontrollers.

Allows flashing firmware, reading back firmware, querying chip parameters, etc.

The esptool.py project is hosted on github: https://github.com/espressif/esptool

Installation
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esptool can be installed via pip:

  $ pip install --upgrade esptool

Since version 1.3, esptool supports both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 or newer.

Since version 2.0, esptool supports both ESP8266 & ESP32.

Usage
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Please see the `Usage section of the README.md file <https://github.com/espressif/esptool#usage>`_.

You can also get help information by running `esptool.py --help`.

Contributing
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Please see the `CONTRIBUTING.md file on github <https://github.com/espressif/esptool/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>`_.