FA·CONTROL — USB INSTALLER

WRITES THE COMPLETE FLASH PACKAGE — BOOTLOADER, PARTITION TABLE, OTA DATA AND FIRMWARE — STRAIGHT TO THE ESP32-C3 OVER USB. NO WI-FI, NO ESP-IDF INSTALLATION. USE THIS FOR A NEW BOARD, FOR A RESCUE, OR WHEN THE NAMES MENU IS MISSING BECAUSE THE DEVICE HAS ONLY EVER SEEN OVER-THE-AIR UPDATES.

BEFORE YOU START

Set DIP 1 to ON. It is the power switch — in deep sleep the ESP32-C3 drops its USB-Serial/JTAG port and no device shows up in the browser dialog.
Use a USB-C cable with data wires. Charge-only cables give power and no port.
Make sure the machine is not under FA_Control's control right now — release it first, or simply power the pinball down.
Chrome or Edge on a desktop computer. Firefox and Safari have no Web Serial API.

PACKAGE

VERSION–

TARGETESP32-C3

FILE	OFFSET	PURPOSE

NOTHING ELSE IS TOUCHED — WI-FI CREDENTIALS (NVS) AND UPLOADED NAMING FILES SURVIVE. ONE EXCEPTION: COMING FROM A VERSION BEFORE 1.18 THE NAMING STORAGE MOVES AND STARTS EMPTY.

INSTALL