thelastoutpostworkshop/ESPConnect v1.1.5

ESPConnect v1.1.5

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ESPConnect v1.1.5

Improvement

• Serial Monitor now renders ANSI color/style escape sequences in the output.
• Serial Monitor adds a copy-to-clipboard action.
• Show a progress dialog while erasing the entire flash.
• Filesystem tools now probe partition contents to detect LittleFS/FAT/SPIFFS before mounting (issue #102).
• Filesystem tools now treat .py files as text for previews.

Internal

• Removed the decorateLoader shim since it's no longer needed with tasmota-webserial-esptool
• Added Playwright E2E scaffolding with a mocked WebSerial/esptool client
• Added Vitest for tasmota-webserial-esptool
• Added filesystem probe tests, including MicroPython LittleFS fixture coverage
• Bump tasmota-webserial-esptool 7.2.3 to 7.3.3
• Bump vue-i18n 11.2.7 to 11.2.8
• Bump vuetify 3.1.15 to 3.1.16
• Bump @types/node from 22.19.3 to 25.0.3
• Bump sass from 1.97.1 to 1.97.2
• Bump vue-tsc from 3.2.1 to 3.2.2

Browser-based control center for ESP32 and ESP8266 boards - now as a standalone desktop application!

🎯 Features

• ✅ Works completely offline - no internet connection required
• ✅ Native Web Serial API support for all platforms
• ✅ Flash firmware, manage SPIFFS/LittleFS, backup flash memory
• ✅ Device info, partitions viewer, NVS Inspector, serial monitor
• ✅ Community translations (Best effort)

📥 Downloads

📝 Installation

macOS Apple Silicon:

curl -L -O "https://github.com/thelastoutpostworkshop/ESPConnect/releases/download/v1.1.5/ESPConnect-arm64.dmg"

Open the DMG and drag ESPConnect to Applications. First launch: Right-click → Open (to bypass Gatekeeper).

macOS Intel:

curl -L -O "https://github.com/thelastoutpostworkshop/ESPConnect/releases/download/v1.1.5/ESPConnect-x64.dmg"

Open the DMG and drag ESPConnect to Applications. First launch: Right-click → Open (to bypass Gatekeeper).

Windows:
Download and run the .exe installer. Windows Defender may show a warning on first launch - click "More info" → "Run anyway".

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu):

sudo dpkg -i espconnect_1.1.5_amd64.deb

Linux (Fedora/RHEL):

sudo rpm -i espconnect-1.1.5.x86_64.rpm

Web UI (static files):

curl -L -o dist.zip "https://github.com/thelastoutpostworkshop/ESPConnect/releases/download/v1.1.5/dist.zip"
unzip dist.zip -d dist

Serve the dist/ Folder, you may use any of the following options:

 Option A — Node “serve”

cd dist
npx serve .

 Option B — Python 3

cd dist
python -m http.server 8080

🔌 USB Serial Permissions (Linux)

Add your user to the dialout group:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

Then log out and back in.