Install TinyDesk

Developer preview. Choose the exact board below. An Install button appears only when its firmware is available.

1Choose an edition

2Choose your platform

3Install

TinyDesk Desktop on an ESP32-C6

This browser cannot talk to serial ports. Use Chrome or Edge on a computer.

Open this page over https (or from localhost).

Open the web terminal

Reading the release...

The installer checks the chip and writes the firmware. Choose Erase device for a first install, and when switching a board between the Desktop and the Shell edition: users, Wi-Fi networks and files then start fresh. (On 4 MB ESP32 boards both editions share one flash layout, so without erasing the files stay.)

After installing, open the board with Open the web terminal (or PuTTY). The installer’s own Logs & Console is a plain log view: it cannot answer the desktop’s terminal queries or send the mouse, so the desktop shows up there as rows of symbols. Close the installer dialog first, so the port is free.

First start

TinyDesk Desktop on Linux

Without the browser (esptool)

The release has this board's firmware as one image, written at offset 0x0: it holds the bootloader (at 0x1000 inside the image on the classic ESP32), the partition table and the app. Install esptool (pip install esptool), download and write it, with your board's port in place of PORT:

Check the files against SHA256SUMS.txt. Images are not signed; see Security. All options side by side: Install in the documentation.