OctoPrint-FirmwareUpdater VS BTT_SKR_13_14_14T_SD-DFU-Bootloader

After reading some more seems like you CAN do it, but I was either too scared or didn't know about it in Mid-2021

Firmware Updater Useful for flashing firmware to printer without having to use sd card. Frees up an sd card for me

I have 2 skr 1.4 turbo boards and before I switched to klipper I always updated my firmware using the firmware updater plug in for octoprint. On the github page it guided you through setup for that board family. https://plugins.octoprint.org/plugins/firmwareupdater/

I followed the install instructions from this link. I installed the python 3 compatible version of heat shrink.

Method 3 (Through Octopi) - I installed Anaconda to download the firmware updater for Octopi found here (https://plugins.octoprint.org/plugins/firmwareupdater/) but cannot install it through the command line. I get "python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.". Tried upgrading pip to no avail.

if you have an Raspberry pi you can try https://plugins.octoprint.org/plugins/firmwareupdater/

I'm not sure if this OctoPrint plug-in works with the neptune 2 but it's worth a shot. https://plugins.octoprint.org/plugins/firmwareupdater/

You need a plugin called Firmware Updater.

Only if you already have Binary File Trainsfer setting enabled in Marlin. So you might be stuck since that's not normally enabled. But when it is enabled, it does work. I only update via octoprint anymore. https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint-FirmwareUpdater/blob/master/doc/marlinbft.md

Take a look at https://github.com/GadgetAngel/BTT_SKR_13_14_14T_SD-DFU-Bootloader -- it may help. It's not only for the larger boards.

However, I couldn't manage to find the original bootloader for this chip. I found this : https://github.com/GadgetAngel/BTT_SKR_13_14_14T_SD-DFU-Bootloader which is very interesting for many older BTT controllers, but not the SKR 3 EZ.

If you want to investigate, you might start by looking at https://github.com/GadgetAngel/BTT_SKR_13_14_14T_SD-DFU-Bootloader

The only other way is to use a little programmer such as an ST-Link, which looks similar to but is different from the little USBasp programmers that can be used for 8-bit boards. An ST-Link can flash firmware directly, but it's not as simple as using the SD card. See, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O_ZOdnM0SU and https://github.com/GadgetAngel/BTT_SKR_13_14_14T_SD-DFU-Bootloader

For LPC based boards this may help. It seems to allow flash over USB.

It doesn't sound like an EEPROM fault, because that only affects various settings, not what functions and codes it supports. It sounds like something is wrong with the bootloader, eg it's reading the firmware file but not storing it. If nothing else works, is it worth getting a little STLink in-system programmer and reinstalling the bootloader and firmware completely? There's a link at https://github.com/GadgetAngel/BTT_SKR_13_14_14T_SD-DFU-Bootloader which should be helpful if you want to try that.

(If all else fails, you can try reflashing the bootloader - something on this page may help you.)

Technically, it's possible to use a programmer to update the firmware, and I've seen descriptions of how to do that with various small programmers. Here's an example. Perhaps a google search will find more information, given that it does exist. People have used that technique to read and (re)load bootloaders and firmware.