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OUTPOST WEB FLASHER

Put Outpost firmware on your radio — right here in your browser. Pick your device, pick a firmware channel, back up if you want, and flash. No installs, no command line.

Beta

Closed Beta

Outpost firmware is in closed beta. Enter the beta password from your invite to choose a device and flash it.

No password? Email [email protected] to ask about joining the beta.

Step 1

Choose Your Device

Every board Outpost knows about: three with firmware ready to flash, the T1000-E tracker (stock firmware — it works with Outpost today), and three boards whose Outpost firmware is still in the works. Pick the one in your hand — the picture is the surest way to tell boards apart — or let the flasher look at what's plugged in.

How detection works, honestly: if your radio is awake and running Meshtastic or Outpost, it can tell us exactly what it is over the cable. If it's blank or already sitting in download mode, all its chip will confess is its family (ESP32-S3, ESP32-C6…) — several boards share a chip, so then we highlight the candidates and the picture decides. Either way, the flash step re-checks the chip against your selected device before writing a single byte.

Step 2

Firmware Channel

Current / Stable is the release build — the one to run. ProtoBox is the preproduction channel: upcoming features that may not work yet and may be deprecated or deleted. Nothing is published to ProtoBox right now.

Step 3

Back Up This Radio (Optional)

A normal flash keeps your settings — but a backup is cheap insurance. If the radio is awake and answers over the cable, this reads its owner names and channel table (names and keys) and downloads them as a small JSON file you can re-provision from later. A blank or download-mode radio can't answer, so for those this step simply doesn't apply. Skip it freely.

Step 4

Flash

Select a device above — the flasher will only write a build made for the chip in that device, and it checks before writing.

What flashing does: it replaces the radio's firmware with the build you picked. Everything below is the whole risk list, in plain words.
  • A normal flash KEEPS the radio's settings. Region, channels, room keys, owner and node config live outside the firmware area and survive an update.
  • Full chip erase (below, OFF by default) is the exception — it wipes the entire chip first: settings, keys, owner, node database, everything. Only for a factory reset or a corrupt config, and only after a backup.
  • Don't unplug mid-flash. A interrupted write is recoverable (the ROM bootloader is in silicon and can't be erased — re-run the flash), but let it finish.
  • The board must be in download mode. On most boards the flasher gets there by itself. The SenseCAP Indicator can't be forced from software — its USB port rejects the control signals — so for that one: press and hold the device's button while plugging in the USB cable, keep holding until the flash starts. If two serial ports appear, pick “USB Serial”, NOT “INDICATOR RP2040” (that's the Indicator's second chip; it can't take this firmware).
  • Boards with BOOT/RESET buttons: hold BOOT, tap RESET, then flash.
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