First Steps With Electronic Cats Flipper Add‐Ons - ElectronicCats/flipper-addons GitHub Wiki

Here you will find the installation guide to make the Add-Ons work and more information about the Flipper Add-Ons!

Flipper GPIO pins and Add-Ons

Flipper's GPIO pins (General Purpose Input/Output) are a way to control external devices. These pins can be used to control the on/off state of devices, read data from devices, or send data to devices.

Addons are electronic devices that can be connected to the Flipper to add new features. Addons connect to the Flipper's GPIO pins.

Flipper Firmware

Flipper comes with a default and official firmware that includes really useful and funny features, but this firmware limits us to the default applications.

While the apps can work with any firmware, official or custom, as long as it uses the same API version the apps were compiled with, we highly recommend using the Unleashed firmware due to its reliability and because some apps are already included.

Flash Unleashed firmware

1. Download and install qFlipper

There are two ways to install a different firmware to the Flipper, the qFlipper tool or via the Mobile App. We highly recommend you perform this update with the qFlipper tool, which can be downloaded from the official Flipper Zero website here:

2. Download the latest version of the Unleashed firmware.

This firmware adds new features and improvements to the original firmware components, with almost no UI changes. With this customized firmware, you will have all the apps needed to make Electronic Cats Flipper Shields work easily.

You can find the latest version of the firmware in the official GitHub repository here: Unleashed Firmware by DarkFlippers

You may find different variants of the same release. We recommend you read the meaning of each variant. The variant recommended and used for this guide is the variant n and e.

3. Time to flash.

  1. Open qFlipper
  1. Connect your Flipper via USB to the computer. If qFlipper cannot recognize it, close any other software instance that may use the Flipper, like the Web Updater.

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qFlipper allows you to back up and restore your firmware. If in doubt, back up!

Go to the Advance Control section and then use the Backup & Restore tools

Now you can continue.

  1. Click on Install from file
  1. Navigate to the folder path containing the firmware file and open the file.
  2. A pop-up window will appear, indicating that the file will be flashed to the flipper, click on INSTALL.
  1. The installation will start immediately.
  1. Wait for the installation to end.
  2. You are done!

Finding the Apps

  1. Unlock your Flipper.
  1. Press the central pad button. Go to Apps.
  1. In the Apps folder, open the GPIO folder.

[!NOTE] Electronic Cats developed apps will be located in your chosen installation path.

  1. Open whichever app you want!