# Installation of Micropython .bin on a ESP8266
Before we can program and use a ESP8266 with python, we need to flash the firmware 
to MP - a Mirco Python environment especially designed for these microprocessors

We need to dowload the latest MP binary. At the time of writing:

    wget https://micropython.org/resources/firmware/esp8266-1m-20220618-v1.19.1.bin

Then, we need to flash the software to the microcontroller. A script that helps 
us with this task is called esptool.py which can be downloaded from [HERE](https://github.com/espressif/esptool):

    esptool.py --port /dev/ttyUSB0 erase_flash
    esptool.py --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baud 460800 write_flash --flash_size=detect -fm dout 0 esp8266-1m-20220618-v1.19.1.bin 
        esptool.py v2.4.1
        Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0
        Connecting......
        Detecting chip type... ESP8266
        Chip is ESP8266EX
        Features: WiFi
        MAC: 80:7d:3a:7f:51:2a
        Uploading stub...
        Running stub...
        Stub running...
        Changing baud rate to 460800
        Changed.
        Configuring flash size...
        Auto-detected Flash size: 1MB
        Flash params set to 0x0320
        Compressed 591476 bytes to 392427...
        Wrote 591476 bytes (392427 compressed) at 0x00000000 in 32.3 seconds (effective 146.3 kbit/s)...
        Hash of data verified.

        Leaving...
        Hard resetting via RTS pin...

We need urequests as well. This is no longer the stnadard in the mikropython 
default package:

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/micropython/micropython-lib/master/python-ecosys/urequests/urequests.py
    
Copy the files into the ESP with the help of ampy. Adafruit ampy that is.
You can get it on arch linux / Manjaro distributions with

    yay -S aur/adafruit-ampy
    
Now the files to be copied:

    ampy -p /dev/ttyUSB0 put urequests.py
    ampy -p /dev/ttyUSB0 put boot.py
    ampy -p /dev/ttyUSB0 put main.py
    ampy -p /dev/ttyUSB0 put inet.conf
    
Hopefully. Done.