mpflash: unable to download PICO firmware due to changed BOARD_ID

[Josverl]

Start with PICO v1.19.1

mpflash -VV list
10:42:04 | 🐞 version: 0.8.2
10:42:05 | ✏️ include=['*'], ignore=[], bluetooth=False
10:42:05 | ✏️ comports: ['COM15', 'COM13', 'COM17', 'COM5', 'COM21']
10:42:05 | ✏️ no Bluetooth: ['COM21']
10:42:05 | 🐞 filtered_comports: ['COM21']
10:42:05 | 🐞 D:\MyPython\micropython-stubber\.venv\Scripts\python.exe -m mpremote connect COM21 run
D:\MyPython\micropython-stubber\src\mpflash\mpflash\mpremoteboard\mpy_fw_info.py

                           Connected boards
┏━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┓
┃Serial┃Family     ┃Port┃Board                        ┃CPU   ┃Version┃
┡━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━┩
│COM21 │micropython│rp2 │PICO                         │RP2040│v1.19.1│
│      │           │    │Raspberry Pi Pico with RP2040│      │       │
└──────┴───────────┴────┴─────────────────────────────┴──────┴───────┘

mpflash download fails to find PICO firmware, as it has been renamed

PS D:\MyPython\micropython-stubber\src\mpflash> mpflash -VV download
10:42:50 | 🐞 version: 0.8.2
10:42:50 | ✏️ include=['*'], ignore=[], bluetooth=False
10:42:50 | ✏️ comports: ['COM15', 'COM13', 'COM17', 'COM5', 'COM21']
10:42:50 | ✏️ no Bluetooth: ['COM21']
10:42:50 | 🐞 filtered_comports: ['COM21']
10:42:50 | 🐞 D:\MyPython\micropython-stubber\.venv\Scripts\python.exe -m mpremote connect COM21 run
D:\MyPython\micropython-stubber\src\mpflash\mpflash\mpremoteboard\mpy_fw_info.py

10:42:50 | ✏️ ask_missing_params: DownloadParams(ports=['rp2'], boards=['PICO'], versions=['stable'], 
fw_folder=WindowsPath('C:/Users/josverl/Downloads/firmware'), serial=['*'], ignore=[], clean=True, force=False)
10:42:50 | ✏️ answers: {'action': 'download', 'versions': ['stable']}
10:42:50 | ✏️ ask_missing_params returns: DownloadParams(ports=['rp2'], boards=['PICO'], versions=['stable'], 
fw_folder=WindowsPath('C:/Users/josverl/Downloads/firmware'), serial=['*'], ignore=[], clean=True, force=False)
10:42:52 | ✏️ Using latest stable version: v1.23.0
10:42:52 | ✏️ Checking MicroPython download pages
10:42:52 | 🐞 Total 0 firmwares
10:42:52 | 🐞 Matching firmwares: 0
10:42:52 | 🐞 Last preview only: 0
10:42:52 | ℹ️ Found 0 relevant unique firmwares
10:42:52 | ❌ No relevant firmwares could be found on https://micropython.org/download
10:42:52 | ℹ️ versions=['1.23.0'] ports=['rp2'] boards=['PICO']
10:42:52 | ℹ️ Please check the website for the latest firmware files or try the preview version.

manually download RPI_PICO firmware

PS D:\MyPython\micropython-stubber\src\mpflash> mpflash -VV download --board RPI_PICO
10:43:39 | 🐞 version: 0.8.2
10:43:39 | ✏️ ask_missing_params: DownloadParams(ports=['rp2'], boards=['RPI_PICO'], versions=['stable'], 
fw_folder=WindowsPath('C:/Users/josverl/Downloads/firmware'), serial=['*'], ignore=[], clean=True, force=False)        
10:43:39 | ✏️ answers: {'action': 'download', 'versions': ['stable']}
10:43:39 | ✏️ ask_missing_params returns: DownloadParams(ports=['rp2'], boards=['RPI_PICO'], versions=['stable'],      
fw_folder=WindowsPath('C:/Users/josverl/Downloads/firmware'), serial=['*'], ignore=[], clean=True, force=False)        
10:43:41 | ✏️ Using latest stable version: v1.23.0
10:43:41 | ✏️ Checking MicroPython download pages
10:43:41 | 🐞 Total 17 firmwares                                                                                       
10:43:41 | 🐞 Matching firmwares: 1
10:43:41 | 🐞 Last preview only: 1
10:43:41 | 🐞 RPI_PICO-v1.23.0.uf2
10:43:41 | ℹ️ Found 1 relevant unique firmwares
10:43:41 | 🐞  C:\Users\josverl\Downloads\firmware\rp2\RPI_PICO-v1.23.0.uf2 already exists, skip download
10:43:41 | ✅ Downloaded 0 firmwares, skipped 1 existing files.

After download, mpflash flash IS able to match PICO to RPI_PICO

PS D:\MyPython\micropython-stubber\src\mpflash> mpflash -VV flash
10:43:51 | 🐞 version: 0.8.2
10:43:51 | ✏️ include=['*'], ignore=[], bluetooth=False
10:43:51 | ✏️ comports: ['COM15', 'COM13', 'COM17', 'COM5', 'COM21']
10:43:51 | ✏️ no Bluetooth: ['COM21']
10:43:51 | 🐞 filtered_comports: ['COM21']
10:43:51 | 🐞 D:\MyPython\micropython-stubber\.venv\Scripts\python.exe -m mpremote connect COM21 run
D:\MyPython\micropython-stubber\src\mpflash\mpflash\mpremoteboard\mpy_fw_info.py

10:43:52 | ✏️ ask_missing_params: FlashParams(ports=['rp2'], boards=['PICO'], versions=['stable'], 
fw_folder=WindowsPath('C:/Users/josverl/Downloads/firmware'), serial=['*'], ignore=[], erase=True, bootloader=True,    
cpu=None)
10:43:52 | ✏️ answers: {'action': 'flash', 'serial': ['*'], 'versions': ['stable']}
10:43:52 | ✏️ ask_missing_params returns: FlashParams(ports=['rp2'], boards=['PICO'], versions=['stable'], 
fw_folder=WindowsPath('C:/Users/josverl/Downloads/firmware'), serial=['*'], ignore=[], erase=True, bootloader=True,    
cpu=None)
10:43:54 | ✏️ Using latest stable version: v1.23.0
10:43:54 | ✏️ Auto updating all boards to v1.23.0
10:43:54 | ✏️ include=['*'], ignore=[], bluetooth=False
10:43:54 | ✏️ comports: ['COM15', 'COM13', 'COM17', 'COM5', 'COM21']
10:43:54 | ✏️ no Bluetooth: ['COM21']
10:43:54 | 🐞 filtered_comports: ['COM21']
10:43:54 | ℹ️ Try (2) to find a firmware for the board PICO
10:43:54 | 🐞 Multiple v1.23.0 firmwares found for PICO on COM21.
10:43:54 | ℹ️ Found v1.23.0 firmware rp2\RPI_PICO-v1.23.0.uf2 for PICO on COM21.
10:43:54 | ℹ️ Updating PICO on COM21 to 1.23.0
10:43:54 | ℹ️ Entering bootloader on PICO on COM21
10:43:54 | 🐞 D:\MyPython\micropython-stubber\.venv\Scripts\python.exe -m mpremote connect COM21 resume bootloader     
10:43:56 | ℹ️ Erasing not yet implemented for UF2 flashing.
10:43:56 | ℹ️ Board is in bootloader mode                                                                              
10:43:56 | ✏️ Found Board-ID=RPI-RP2
10:43:56 | ℹ️ Board ID: RPI-RP2
10:43:56 | ℹ️ Copying C:\Users\josverl\Downloads\firmware\rp2\RPI_PICO-v1.23.0.uf2 to E:\.
10:44:01 | ✅ Done copying, resetting the board and wait for it to restart
10:44:08 | ℹ️ Flashed 1 boards                                                                                         
Updating board info ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   0% -:--:--10:44:08 | 🐞 D:\MyPython\micropython-stubber\.venv\Scripts\python.exe -m mpremote connect COM21 resume run
D:\MyPython\micropython-stubber\src\mpflash\mpflash\mpremoteboard\mpy_fw_info.py
                    Updated boards after flashing                                                                      
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┃Serial┃Family     ┃Port┃Board                        ┃CPU   ┃Version┃
┡━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━┩
│COM21 │micropython│rp2 │RPI_PICO                     │RP2040│v1.23.0│
│      │           │    │Raspberry Pi Pico with RP2040│      │       │
└──────┴───────────┴────┴─────────────────────────────┴──────┴───────┘

reported by @beetlegigg in #557

[beetlegigg]

@Josverl - its looking good from your log and mpflash will be a a very useful tool. I just did a pip install mpflash, but the version installed is still at 0.8.1b1. I will try again in a day or so to see if I can get 0.8.2 or above at that time for a check of the latest on my mac at which time I will see if I can get a bunch of different boards to update to micropython v1.23

[Josverl]

Try pip install -U mpflash

U is for Upgrade

[beetlegigg]

I just tried pip install -U mpflash but it appears to have moved the version back from 0.8.1b1 as mpflash --version now reports: mpflash, version 0.8.1

[Josverl]

@beetlegigg , Apologies, the version was not published, but there have been a few updates since.
the current version 0.8.8 has the fixes that resolved this issue.

Thanks for testing.