Guide for updating/flashing coordinators

[ikarisan]

Maybe I am blind, but I did not find any suitable guide for updating the firmware of common (TI-)coordinators. In my case for the SONOFF Dongle Plus (CC2652P). I. e. for the last two years I used the 2023 version of the Z-Stack_3.x.0 firmware. Now I wanted to upgrade to the 20240710 respectively to its development version 20250403.

It took me an hour to find a working guide for flashing the coordinator.
After many attempts with various tools under Windows, I came across this docker image: “ckware/ti-cc-tool” (again).
I had already successfully flashed a CC2531 module with a “sniffer firmware” using this two years ago.

It really couldn't be easier if you run zigbee2mqtt as a Docker container anyway.
Simply stop the zigbee2mqtt container and then run this as root(with sudo):

docker run --rm --device /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0 -e FIRMWARE_URL=[[URL]] ckware/ti-cc-tool -ewv -p /dev/ttyUSB0 --bootloader-sonoff-usb

[[URL]] is e.g.: https://github.com/user-attachments/files/19403801/CC1352P2_CC2652P_launchpad_coordinator_20250321.hex.zip

Works great. Then re-plug the adapter into the USB port and restart zigbee2mqtt. Screw any “mega special tools”. No need to install any legacy Windows drivers.

[Koenkk]

The easiest way to flash is through the smlight flasher

[ikarisan]

I have tried this page. But the “Installing firmware” process never goes further than 0.0%. No matter whether I use “Bootloader v1” or “Bootloader v2”. Whereas the Docker container works 100% for me.