Is there any way to save the modified flash back to the SD card before reflashing?

[jstockdale]

I'm wondering if there's any way to persist the changes that have been made by the device. For instance I lose Meshtastic settings everytime I boot a different firmware.

Happy to help implement if I can be useful! :)

[bmorcelli]

You can... I didn't analyse the meshtastic firmware, but it would probably use SPIFFS to save data ..

You can go: CFG>Save SPIFFS

It will save a file in ./bkp/spiffs.bin

Then you can restore it in CFG>Rest SPIFFS> choose the file you have saved and select.

[jstockdale]

Oh my goodness. That worked!! If I restore the flash first, then do Rest SPIFFS with the saved file, my configuration and settings are all restored.

If I put together a PR that lets you set configuration preferences for certain bins, so that you can auto-save and auto-restore the SPIFFS or FAT VFS data, would you be interested in the feature?

Awesome project. Thanks for making it! 👍 🙏 ✨

[bmorcelli]

It would, yes! Mashtastic and Bruce users would love this solution, even more if it could be downloaded in realtime within the webUi (some devices doesn't have sdcard)

[jstockdale]

Sounds great. I will get to this later this month. Cheers! 😊✨