Retry the uploading of a just-compiled firmware without repeating the full compile.

[donburch888]

Describe the enhancement

From Device Builder I can [INSTALL] YAML firmware ... sometimes the firmware compiles successfully but the upload fails. eg

Can the [RETRY] button here detect that the code did compile, and so just retry the upload phase, rather than wasting time repeating compiling the firmware ?

From the CLI, there is already a esphome upload myprog.yaml option

Use cases

At my workbench Wi-fi is poor quality at times, during which it often requires several attempts to upload new firware to a device I am testing on my workbench.
At other times the ESP32 goes into deep_sleep before the compile finishes, and so the compile succeeds but the upload fails.

The command line esphome upload myprog.yaml skips the verify and compile, and just attempts to upload the latest compiled firmware. Can we do the same from Device Builder ?

Visual examples

I anticipate tweaking the code behind the [retry] button, so no UI change.

Alternatively add an [Upload] button ... though I'm not sure why someone would want to retry a failed compile without editing the code first.

Anything else?

No response

[ssieb]

The retry shouldn't do any compiling. What are you seeing?

[donburch888]

OK, so not doing any actual compiling - but it looks like it is going through all the motions, from re-validating the same YAML to re-creating the esp32s3 image ...

I admit that there is a chance that the user might have changed something through a different browser window to the HA / Device Builder server - but that chance is very small, and it is the users responsibility to understand the effect.