Can't upload files from esplorer to nodemcu builds with idf4 and idf5

Question

I can’t upload a file with esplorer for nodemcu ESP32 builds idf4 and idf5 I made from the GitHub repository, (an idf3 build works fine).

All lua commands in esplorer are working except the file upload. I suspect it has to do with handshaking between spiffs and esplorer but can not pinpoint the problem. The error I get is: ..Waiting answer from ESP - Timeout reached. Command aborted.

Answer 1

I believe the problem is that idf4 and idf5 firmwares do not support file.write(). If you look at the docs it now uses the io routines. I have not yet found a simple way of uploading lua files to the chip. I have built the latest nodemcu-tool and this looks like it is transferring files but they do not appear in the FS. I have spent hours googling on this and am now going back to idf3. very frustrating...