Feature Suggestion

[michaelheiml]

Hi,

updating several devices with a new firmware is time consuming.

Using current method (update 1 device at a time) takes around 30s minute for a device (go to update site, upload binary, wait for restart..) => takes 25 minutes for 50 devices (20 if I continue to the next device while firmware is uploading on the former device).

Suggestion: provide path to new firmware file via URL parameter, example:

a) String url = "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1LDRlyZaZTF-bxHjBDEiL2obMxYHtf3YT"
b) http://192.168.1.100/update?param1=url

1. when b) is called in browser, update is done automatically without user interaction
2. additonally, ElegantOTA has a method that takes url as argument, immediately starting the update process, like ElegantOTA.Update(url);

When passing URL, this takes maybe 2 minutes since all the devices will download the firmware simultaneously, but thats still a huge time saver.

In my case, I send a JSON over MQTT to all known devices that enables Wifi, Server and ElegantOTA. I would add the URL as an extra parameter and all devices will update automatically from this URL without user input + reboot.

What do you think?

[ayushsharma82]

Hi,

I appreciate the feedback but this isn't the goal or direction of this library from beginning. There may be other open-source libraries available to perform complete fleet OTA updates.

ElegantOTA has always remained a simple user interface which is used to do simply per device firmware updates. The code required to handle this feature is also completely different, so there is no code sharing / similarity.

[michaelheiml]

Hi, ok that's a pity. I'll try and see if I can find some other solution.