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Particle Offline Utility

Particle Offline Utility, more commonly known as po-util, is a tool written by community member, Nathan Robinson, that simplifies the installation and use of the Particle Toolchain so that new users can easily develop locally on Mac OSX and Ubuntu-based Linux Distributions.

Features

Po-util features commands for:

• Installing the ARM toolchain, dfu-util, nodejs, particle-cli and the Particle firmware
• Building firmware and saving as a binary
• Building firmware and Flashing over USB using dfu-util
• Initializing a directory into a project folder
• Upgrade the System firmware on your device
• Uploading firmware with particle-cli
• Monitoring the serial output of your device
• Putting your device into DFU mode and getting your device out of DFU mode
• Quickly flashing pre-compiled code with dfu-util

Examples

Build firmware

po DEVICE build

Build firmware and flash using dfu-util

po DEVICE flash

Upgrade system firmware

po DEVICE upgrade

Open serial monitor

po serial

Upload firmware Over the Air

po DEVICE ota YOUR_DEVICE_NAME

Support

Nathan Robinson can be contacted on the Particle Forums.

He can also be contacted on his personal Slack.