Alphai Robot Firmware Updater

A Flutter Web application designed to flash firmware onto Alphai robots directly from the browser using the Web Serial API.

Features

• 🔌 Web Serial Integration: Connect to ESP32-based robots directly via USB in the browser.
• 🚀 Firmware Flashing: Updates Bootloader, Partition Table, and Application firmware.
• 🎨 Modern UI: Features smooth animations, dark/light mode support, and a responsive design.
• 📊 Progress Tracking: Real-time progress bars for different stages of the flashing process.

Requirements

• A browser with Web Serial API support (Chrome, Edge, Opera). Firefox and Safari are not currently supported.
• USB cable to connect the Alphai Robot.
• [Optional] FTDI Adapter if required by your specific board version.

Development

Setup

1. Install Flutter: Ensure you have the Flutter SDK installed.
2. Enable Web Support:

   flutter config --enable-web

3. Get Dependencies:

   flutter pub get

Run Locally

flutter run -d chrome

Deployment

This project is configured to deploy automatically to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions.

The build workflow performs:

1. Sets up the Flutter environment.
2. Builds the project for web (flutter build web --release).
3. Uploads the artifact to GitHub Pages.

Note on Base Href: If deploying to a project page (e.g., username.github.io/repo-name), you may need to adjust the base-href in the build command within .github/workflows/deploy.yml:

run: flutter build web --release --base-href "/repo-name/"