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  1. ==========
  2. esptool.py
  3. ==========
  4. A command line utility to communicate with the ROM bootloader in Espressif ESP8266 & ESP32 microcontrollers.
  5. Allows flashing firmware, reading back firmware, querying chip parameters, etc.
  6. The esptool.py project is hosted on github: https://github.com/espressif/esptool
  7. Installation
  8. ------------
  9. esptool can be installed via pip:
  10. $ pip install --upgrade esptool
  11. Since version 1.3, esptool supports both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 or newer.
  12. Since version 2.0, esptool supports both ESP8266 & ESP32.
  13. Usage
  14. -----
  15. Please see the `Usage section of the README.md file <https://github.com/espressif/esptool#usage>`_.
  16. You can also get help information by running `esptool.py --help`.
  17. Contributing
  18. ------------
  19. Please see the `CONTRIBUTING.md file on github <https://github.com/espressif/esptool/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>`_.