How To Read from ESP32 - CLONE/BACKUP Everything

[@wadefallin]

After all the years, I can still follow along with the math. When I was a younger man, serving in the Navy, I used to teach numbering systems to civilan programmers who were writting code for the Navy's Naval Tactical Data System. I taught Decimal to Binary conversion, Binary to Hexidecimal conversion, and assembly and compiling languages. Shortly after I left, they included teaching ForTran and Pascal languages. Gives you an idea just how long ago it was when I was teaching programming.

[@Kevindarrah]

Thanks Wade!

[@DarrahValentine]

How interesting this is, I went a different direction in life, but this is fascinating as in my older years been learning more and more on components ...my IT guy will love this, sharing

[@ClaytonDarwin]

Thanks, Kevin. Very useful. I'll definitely be using this soon. Looking forward to part 2 when you get a chance. 👍

[@reshadrei1788]

please don't stop making informative video.

[@richardperritt]

Timely. Planned to research this tomorrow 😁👍 Part 2 will be interesting

[@pileofstuff]

That may come in very handy in the near future. Thanks.

[@renebrsch]

Flash encryption would be really interesting! Thanks for this cool video!

[@bjornmartin6480]

sorry to be off topic but does someone know of a tool to log back into an Instagram account? I stupidly forgot the password. I love any assistance you can offer me!

[@landenemmitt3729]

@Bjorn Martin Instablaster =)

[@MysteryElectronicz]

Does this encryption video exist?

[@TomHermans]

Thanks, this worked great. Still noobish and messed up a TTGO display ESP32. Bought a new one and recovered the old with this method. 🙌

[@antoni2nguyen]

I am looking forward to see the part 2, for a looong time :D

[@stevetobias4890]

Cool video, I'm still a newbie with the ESP boards so very handy information

[@automationtechnologyclub]

worked well for me using a esp32s3, thank you for the simple solution

[@emanuelkszenics7689]

it's kinda easy to stop you from duplicate their board, just put a condition on esp chip id and done, or perhaps checking the chip id on the server and rejecting the connection if it's not in their list

[@DavidLeeMenefee]

I just saw your TRIGBOARD on the EEVBLOG, great job! thumbs up.

[@Kevindarrah]

thanks yea that was so cool!

[@panoriega]

Thank you very much, nice example and explanation, I was able to backup the Factory Watchface from my Watchy 2.0

[@stupossibleify]

Great tutorial. Was researching how to do this only yesterday!

[@Kevindarrah]

nice!

[@sandeepkapare]

@Kevindarrah Nice video. Were you able to work on the part 2 video of protecting the flash? Please share the link if it is available. Also if you can confirm if flash encryption can be done on ESP12-F as well? Thanks in advance.

[@ChaseCares]

This was super helpful, thank you!

[@NicksStuff]

How do you keep your WiFi credentials safe (if you have an IoT module outside)? Is encrypting the flash enough (you mentioned at the end that part 2 would be about encrypting the flash)

[@mansurbhamani3905]

@Kevin, did you make the part 2 of the video you mentioned. It would be very interesting. Please share the link.

[@avejst]

Great video as always 👍🙂 Nice tool to use as a backup Thanks for sharing your knowledge to all of us 👍😊

[@nyckid]

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[@Kevindarrah]

ha, did not know this!

[@ch0asnature]

Nice Video - quite informative Can you share the name or a link to the windows version of the Hex calculator i saw you using? regards

[@leejohannes]

On Chip last line XX, u can read the flash size

[@Daniel-ri2ys]

Please create a video about flash encryption 🙏

[@espero_dev]

I need to get the read circuit reason why is I coded an esp and I didn’t save the code to my laptop please I need help

[@ridwanullahiabdulrauf3224]

Wow, this just save my day................thank you very much

[@ESP32-ARD]

Hi, would like to ask if cloning an ESP32 will also clone it's MAC address ? For example, if you clone three pcs. ESP32, will all three have same MAC address ? Would like to know a good encryption technique using easy to use flashing software . Thanks

[@FrankGraffagnino]

looking forward to a future video about protecting memory contents... if not the entire memory, perhaps just specific variables such as passwords and things. I would imagine that there would be simple mechanisms you could put into your code that would at least make storing passwords not obvious in a dump of the memory and would be simple for most folks to do.

[@Kevindarrah]

yea got it on my list!

[@dmackle3849]

@@Kevindarrah sorry to exhibit search laziness but did this follow up happen? Thanks for this video. I had backburnered this chore since before you actually released this solution.

[@michaeldavison9808]

My use-case is that if I have a device that I have bought as part of a solution and I want to try it with my own version of the software I don't want to permanently delete the software it came with. (EG, Specifically a multi relay board with built in ESP01 and I want to temporarily change the ESP SW) So I need to be able to read the flash and restore it afterward.

[@WistrelChianti]

Thanks! Some useful stuff learnt

[@RobertDickens2002]

Do you have any videos for total newbs

[@Sysshad]

On Atmel 8bit AVR you can set a fuse to prevent people from reading the flash/eeprom. They would only get zeroes. Im surprised the ESP32 doesnt have a similiar feature, being an more advanced MCU and all

[@zeref783]

It does. It's called Secure Boot in combination with Flash Encryption. But on a prototype why would this be set...

[@chanyorkful]

Hello Kevin, How can I extract from ESPRESSIF if it does not have a USB Port? I can find the GND TX0 RX0, GND RST, CK and DA port.

[@dpatt6175]

How can you connect to one of these that has no USB port

[@signosvitales7969]

hi ...how can i write a file with .bin extension

[@lombard-ri7il]

Hi Kevin, realy useful but not sure if will work with protected Firmware

[@dugy40]

What program did you use? This is no help.

[@charlesmarseille123]

god that was interesting. thanks a lot

[@permanenthairsystemludhian5143]

29% after heng problem ???

[@HasanJunaid-y8h]

wil it work even if its read protected esp32?

[@imranics1142]

Nice video interesting ,,, when will be the part 2 video comes for esp32 flash encryption, if any one has part 2 video details plz share in comments thank you .

[@Od3o_ela_sabil_rabek]

01:51 waiting for that

[@oskimac]

I saw your video today. And then i encounter you again on Eevblog video one hour ago! Nice. It's a shame the low effort dave put in his videos nowadays.

[@Kevindarrah]

either way, I was blow away to see Dave holding a trigBoard!

[@sevketkarayilan]

How to prevent clone my esp code?

[@paulkirchhof9546]

I miss the link to part two

[@espero_dev]

Do I do the same with an esp-12f 12e 12s ?

[@Beatfreak19831]

Very cool!

[@rimbang_]

can u make tutorial like this but for ESP8266 ?

[@liroysabah1563]

Hi, Does it also copy the EEPROM/SPIFFS/PREFERENCES of the device?

[@Kevindarrah]

yea it's a complete flash copy

[@jessejgm]

Clone MAC address?

[@rainerteschner7597]

It does not work for me. I get the error A fatal error occurred: Invalid head of packet (0xFF). Any idea how I could fix it?

[@Kevindarrah]

try changing baud rate

[@mikevhx5682]

Thanks

[@MedSou]

*"EEVblog Mailbag" brought me here*

[@Kevindarrah]

whoa, so many people showing up over here - thanks!

[@DebdutBiswasOnline]

Cooooool

[@Mr_Meowingtons]

man i wish we can just do this with the Arduino software i am so lost and getttiing frustrated...

[@altitude1039]

Does anyone know of a discord group related to the ESP32 etc?

[@TheEmbeddedHobbyist]

ESP32 does have a flash encryption function to get around this issue. it uses AES-256 encryption and the key can not be accessed by software. PLuse there is also a secure boot option. So you can protect your firmware if you want, but i expect that somebody could still hack it if they spent enough time and effort. It's not uncommon to have memory protection on microcontrollers.

[@Kevindarrah]

thanks yea it's normally pretty easy with uC's, but with the external flash here, takes a couple extra steps.

[@solidfuel0]

@@Kevindarrah what is uC ? Does it get you the encryption key

[@sinezty]

@kevindarrah Where is the second part? I've had a child now, but I don't think I'll ever find out the gender.

[@zyghom]

very nice. I hopped we could go and dissemble the code to see the wifi password ;-)

[@leef_me8112]

5:08 EGAD! Bent pin on the dev board. Please! Spare your user's this horrible view.

[@Kevindarrah]

nice catch!

[@leef_me8112]

@@Kevindarrah Thanks for the ACK. I've seen a lot of bent EPROM pins like that years ago. Now I gently remove parts from sockets or breadboards. Thanks again for CARING enough to SHARE with us. Maybe you should write a book?

[@leef_me8112]

You shouldn't be allowed to show this on video.

[@ebb2421]

Thank you Kevin, very helpful to get a backup bin. Just a note, the PCB under the Antenna PCB will change the resonance frequency a fair bit... See Robert Feranec kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJzIaJdvgrCCgtU

[@databang]

(>^.^)> Dave from EEVBLOG suggested your channel. Sub’d from Bezerkeley!

[@Kevindarrah]

cool thanks!

[@joelhowell5402]

You should consider using platformio for future projects

[@chicagolandjim2829]

Thanks, Kevin. Tried to use this after a library upgrade cause my Sketch to no longer run. I took an new empty ESP32 Cam, loaded a program and tried to read it. An immediate fatal error of COM port doesn't exist occurs and the IDE never tries to connect. Just wondering if you heard if Arduino IDE has done something to prevent reads. I tried reading a single memory location with the same results. Here is the message when not specifiying a serial port. esptool.py v4.5 Found 1 serial ports Serial port COM7 COM7 failed to connect: Could not open COM7, the port doesn't exist I'm an old fogie trying to learn new stuff but find many sketches do not work due to changes made in the library.