One of the most useful features of Arduino Yun is the ability to upload your sketches via network, directly from the IDE (as I explained in a previous tutorial). Arduino’s IDE uses the Bonjour protocol (running on port UDP 5353) to look for Yun boards on your network: this auto-discovery technique works fine in a local area network, but fails on the Internet.
Today’s project allows to upload a new sketch using a protected web page, easily accessible also on the Internet.
Description
When the IDE uploads a new sketch, it performs three steps (thanks to Federico Fissore that explained it on the forum):
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- it copies (using SCP) the compiled version (.hex) of the sketch on the Arduino Yun
- it adds the bootloader (merge-sketch-with-bootloader.lua command)
- it programs the ATMega32u4 microcontroller (run-avrdude command)
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I developed a PHP application that performs the operations listed above; for security reasons the application is password-protected (using the same password you type to access your Yun via SSH or to upload sketches using the IDE).
Acknowledgements
First, I’d like to thank the people behind the following great projects:
- jQuery, library I used for all the Ajax stuff
- jQuery File Upload Plugin, I used to upload the files
- nuoveXT iconset, where I got the icons
Prerequisites
The server-side application is developed in PHP: you need to install some packages to run it; the installation can be performed using the WebGUI or a terminal as it follows.
First, always remember to update the list of the available packages:
opkg update
then install php5 and the CGI module to use PHP within the uHttpd webserver:
opkg install php5 php5-cgi
you also need to install some additional modules:
opkg install php5-mod-json php5-mod-hash php5-mod-session
Finally, configure the uHttpd server as explained here.
Installation
The files of the project are available in my Github’s repository.
Click the Download ZIP button to download all of them in a single archive:
Extract the archive in a folder on your harddisk (for example in C:). Move the folder on the SD card, in the following path: arduino\www and rename it to sketchUploader:
Insert the SD card in your Yun and connect to http://yun_ip/sd/sketchUploader/
If the installation was ok, you should get sketchUploader’s login form:
In the next page I’m going to show you how to use it…
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This is so cool! Great work!
Is it possible to copy/padte the .hex path into the uploaded (instead of navigating to file) since this path changes erverytime… and we have to get this path from IDE window anyway?
Hi Michael,
thanks! it requires some changes in the javascript code to add a text box where you can paste the path of the hex file… but of course you can paste it in the “open file” dialog instead of navigating to file.
Hi Luca,
I found a strange behavior… sketchUploader loads and reboots Yun… but the code is not actually changes. I get errors like this.. when uploading via ethernet or with sketchUploader. Wifi and usb work just fine. Have you seen this before?
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vrdude: AVR device not responding
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.
/usr/bin/run-avrdude: line 4: can’t open /tmp/efuse: no such file
rm: can’t remove ‘/tmp/efuse’: No such file or directory
sh: 203: unknown operand
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Hi Michael,
that’s strange, it seems the “linux” part of the Yun can’t communicate with the atmega32u4… are you able to upload sketches using the Arduino IDE via wifi?
Hi Luca,
I use 1.5.6-r2 IDE, and recently updated the firmware to the latest from Arduino.
Wifi and usb upload work fine. I think sketchUploader worked fine at first (confusing now)… but sketchUploader and ethernet definitely don’t work now on multiple Yun modules.
Still scratching my head. I really like your sketchUploader.. it should be a standard package that makes the Yun so much better!
Is it possible for the Yun to fetch the upgrade from a remote website and then do the sketch update? This would avoid the need to access the Yun from a remote site when it is likely behind a firewall.
Tom
Hi Tom!
Of course you can write a script that fetches (via wget, http://ftp...) the new sketch and run the commands to program the ATMega… you gave me the idea for a new blog post 😉
Hi!!
Firstly, thanks for your work, the project is amazing and very useful for arduino.
I have been done everything you say in this post and even tried the php example webpage with success, but once I tried with the sketchUploader webpage it appeared with a white background and a simple style.
I have tried that webpage on my computer and even with the dreamweaver editor and it seems that it is a problem of the webpage directly. Have anyone tried to the las update of this project? I downloaded it from the official repository.
Anyway, thanks a lot for your job luca!!
Sorry, there’s an error in the last post. I wanted to say “I have done” in spite of “I have been done”.
Hi Gabriel… could it be that you didn’t install PHP (or one of its required modules) on the Yun? Anyway, did you notice that the latest official images include a “built-in” sketch upload feature?
I get the sketchuploader page but why does it just sit there after I enter arduino for the password?
Hi Jeff,
very strange, did you install PHP and all the requires packages? Anyway, the new version of Linino do include a “builtin” function to upload sketches, did you try it?
yes all packages confirmed installed. Can I install the latest linino from 5 days ago or do I need the arduino one for my yun? thank you!!
Download the latest OpenWRT image from http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software#toc8
ok all upgraded ran all steps from scratch, I can connect to http://192.168.1.33/sd/sketch/index.html
and I type in arduino for the password, click on log in but nothing happens, what may I be missing? thx again for helping!