Copy BIN to Board automatically use a simple Python-script
mbed's online compiler is easy for environment-setup.
But it's very annoying to copy the BIN file from Download directory to board manually.
Note: USB-IAP will detect the BIN file automatically.
Put the Python-script below to anywhere you like(https://gist.github.com/mintisan/e4ac4593c7f47f63bfc9bf23a8b85f9c),
Note: you may modify the directory slightly for your system.
import os
from shutil import copyfile
# `sudo pip install walkdir` if you don't install walkdir
import walkdir as wd
import time
src_dir = os.environ['HOME']+'/Downloads/'
dst_dir = '/Volumes/NUCLEO/'
pattern = "*_NUCLEO_F401RE.bin"
while True:
time.sleep(1)
bin_file = wd.file_paths(wd.filtered_walk(src_dir, depth=0,included_files=[pattern]))
fn_l = list(bin_file)
if len(fn_l) == 0:
print("no bin file is exits!")
continue
fn = str(fn_l[0]).split('/')[-1]
print(fn, "is coped to " + dst_dir)
copyfile(src_dir+fn,dst_dir+fn)
os.remove(src_dir+fn)
and execute it(copy_bin_2_nucleo.py):
python copy_bin_2_nucleo.py
If you press compile button on online-compiler, it will generate a BIN file to $HOME/Downloads directory.
And the below Python-script will check any BIN files exit or not, and copy it to board per second.
It's very easy, ha.
If you want to stop the script, just press "CTRL+C".
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Copy BIN to Board automatically use a simple Python-script
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Ted Lin
Created 28 Aug 2016.
Last updated 28 Aug 2016
This is a great idea. I am thinking about making a Chrome extension to do the same thing. For your code, you might consider using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog to watch the filesystem instead of polling.