Yeah! I think it's useful for people to people to discuss and ask questions about new releases somewhere. I'm mostly conscious of it sometimes being a lot of posts.
Maybe the way to go is to have announce threads for new major+minor releases, but not worry about it so much (or reuse threads) for patch releases.
It would be nice to have some instructions for flashing the firmware without the "companion app", because that app seems to be written for a very specific versions of libraries, and doesn't work on my system. I assume I can just flash the two .bin files to the addresses indicated in the json file with the esptool.py? Do I need to put the tangara into boot mode first somehow?
Hi! Sorry the companion doesn't work for you! We'll take a look!
You are correct; you just use esptool to flash those binaries at the right offsets. No special setup needed, just plug in your device while it's on and away you go. We'll put together a script and some manual instructions soon!
Going to concur on the need for instructions on how to flash the Tangara manually; Tangara Companion requires GTK 4.11, and all my machines are on Debian 12 (the current stable) with GTK 4.8.3 provided by the distribution.
(It also doesn't run under WINE properly and has massive text corruption, meaning my only option left is using the Companion app in a Windows VM and USB passthrough, which is likely functional but depressing.)
It's not available in a prepackaged release yet, but the latest version of the tangara companion does have a cli app as well that is a bit less heavy on deps. I'll poke hailey and see if she has time to spin a new release for us.
Oh understood thanks ! I was looking for something in tangara-fw project, I was wrong.
I build it myself to tweak the weird lines that I had on the screen (you saw on mastodon), and now when I merge the main I can export a .tra to give to my boyfriend so he can flash his tangara with the companion.
Oh cute. Good luck, hope it works!
