Below are the steps required to flash a NextThingCo CHIP or PocketCHIP from the command line, as of November 2018. The web flasher no longer works, and there are numerous errors when flashing from the command line, mostly due to broken dependencies. The following method works for flashing a CHIP as of November 2018:
Note: Flashing must be done on Linux. Tested on Ubuntu and Rasparian. Mac OS seems to not work.
- Download and unpack the CHIP-SDK.zip from one of the following:
- https://archive.org/details/C.h.i.p.FlashCollection
- https://github.com/NextThingCo/CHIP-SDK
- https://github.com/Project-chip-crumbs/CHIP-SDK
- Download and unpack CHIP-tools.zip from one of the following: