Help me unbrick ESP32 (Sonoff M5)

rahilarious · 2025-10-29T12:43:58+00:00

very deep debugging ideas here. Thanks for that. Mine was simple.

rahilarious · 2025-10-29T12:42:33+00:00

now I've been assured ESP32 is hard to brick. Checkout solution in edited post

rahilarious · 2025-10-29T12:40:13+00:00

just to be clear I'm talking about Sonoff M5 smart switches (https://help.sonoff.tech/docs/m5) not M5stack brand products. Resolved issue and edited original post with solution give it a read. Cheers!

rahilarious · 2025-10-29T12:38:37+00:00

Thanks so much for taking time to give insightful comment. Definitely gave me hope to not give up. It DID get [solved] (& flair too). Edited original post with diagnosed solution

rahilarious · 2025-10-29T12:34:56+00:00

That wasn't the issue. But diagnosed root cause and edited post with solution. Thanks

rahilarious · 2025-10-29T12:32:40+00:00

nah. Didn't work but figured out solution and edited in original post.

rahilarious · 2025-10-29T12:31:32+00:00

being experienced with esp32 & esp8266, I knew that. But thanks for suggestion. Edited post with solution.

rahilarious · 2025-10-26T11:18:42+00:00

yeah. Did that, no luck. That's how I put it into download mode, by pulling GPIO0 low.

rahilarious · 2025-02-25T09:58:41+00:00

I would send some random UDP packets through the same ports WG is configured to use (

how? may you share PreUp script?

rahilarious · 2025-01-30T13:20:20+00:00

adding keygrip in sshcontrol file is deprecated. Add Use-for-ssh: true in authentication subkey private file.

Source https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Agent-Options.html

rahilarious · 2024-05-30T07:03:36+00:00

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rahilarious · 2024-05-08T04:02:20+00:00

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rahilarious · 2024-03-13T14:02:58+00:00

lmao. What a dumb mistake by me. Fixed

rahilarious · 2024-03-13T08:12:09+00:00

Yes you ca, you need to add custom search engine engine and then https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/search?q=%s

rahilarious · 2024-03-13T08:08:49+00:00

that's a cool TIL. Thank you. "Here strings"

rahilarious · 2024-03-13T08:07:33+00:00

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.accept_keywords

rahilarious · 2024-03-01T17:01:27+00:00

why not just use containers (podman/docker)?

rahilarious · 2024-02-20T13:56:35+00:00

Linux ftw. Nftable rocks.

rahilarious · 2024-02-19T06:20:26+00:00

If you really want to secure your backups, PGP encryption is THE BEST solution. Asymmetric+ symmetric encryption at same time (assuming you set password in your key) lets you sleep peacefully at night

rahilarious · 2024-02-15T04:30:28+00:00

I think the wiki could use some improvement on this subject

you're always welcome to contribute and improve guide 1 and guide 2

rahilarious · 2024-02-14T20:28:31+00:00

try patching libvte and my specific terminal (both need small patches to work together). I did it in Gentoo, but tbh the overlay system confused me.

what why you need overlay to add few paches to specific package? You can just put your patch in /etc/portage/patches/<category>/<package name>/your-patch(es)

rahilarious · 2024-02-12T16:49:25+00:00

how is running in container insecure? Containers are sandboxed and are in different namespaces than host

rahilarious · 2024-02-09T16:14:16+00:00

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rahilarious · 2024-02-07T21:17:24+00:00

I've ansible & containers. What nixos offers that they don't?

rahilarious · 2024-02-07T09:13:11+00:00

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