Upload files to NodeMCU from Windows Bash

ESP8266, NodeMCU

Uploading files to a NodeMCU ESP8266 can be done with the Java tool ESPlorer. If you want to automate this process, you’ll want to use something else.

A quick research brought up NodeMCU-Uploader, which is a python script. On my Windows machine, I’ve got the bash installed. Naturally I want to use it 🙂

Fortunately the bash allows access to the COM ports. You have to modify the permissions for the device though.

  • sudo chmod 666 /dev/ttyS3where “3” is the COM port, you can see in the Windows Device Manager

After that, the COM port can be access. The uploader can be installed with pip.

  • sudo apt install pip
  • pip install nodemcu-uploader

After everything has been set up, files can be uploaded by specifying the port and file

nodemcu-uploader --port /dev/ttyS3 upload application.lua