OTADATA not reset on code upload for ESP32

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I am working on doing OTA Updates with my ESP32, I just did a successful test which put the downloaded firmware on OTA_1 and updated the OTADATA partition so that it would boot to OTA_1, but now when I upload code to the ESP32 it gets put to OTA_0 and OTADATA is never reset so it boots into the firmware that was downloaded from the net, and not from the freshly updated code.

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So you upload via serial again and it doesn’t boot that firmware? esptool.py erase_flash should resolve it temporarily…

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Yes that is correct, how can I modify PIO to do an esptool erase_region call before upload?

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Probably through the Advanced Scripting.

This is the sort of stuff you’d want in the script

Import("env", "projenv")
env.AddPreAction("upload", before_upload)
def before_upload(source, target, env):
    print "Performing pre-upload erase..."
    # call esptool erase
    env.Execute("")

I wonder if the problem is a missing bootloader though?

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