Hello Forum People!
Is there a list of which boards can be updated over-the-air? I know this is the WiFi board, but if the list included Bluetooth OTA as well, that would be great. Basically I’m evaluating boards for a project and OTA updates is a requirement.
Thanks,
-Frank
Probably just the ESP line of microcontrollers (off the top of my head). If you “google” search the proper keywords, you should be able to find a bunch of tutorials on this.
Hi Frank,
Santa_Impersonator is correct, any of the ESP-based boards we have can probably be updated OTA but only when using the Espressif IDF. Here’s a link to their [Documents page that covers OTA updates.
To expand the list here a bit, all of the Particle Dev boards we carry can receive updates OTA via WiFi. I’m not positive if the Mesh-capable versions of these boards like the [Particle Argon can get an update OTA via Bluetooth but you can absolutely interact with them via Bluetooth using either the Android or iOS apps. The [Argon Datasheet will go over the hardware capabilities and their documents page has extensive information on using the various applications and Dev Kits with Particle Boards. We also have the [Photon RedBoard that can be used similarly to the Particle Photon with the standard Uno Footprint.
The other IoT development boards that can update OTA is the [Pycom LoPy4 Development Board. Just like the Particle boards, Pycom has extensive documentation on their [Documentation Page to get started with the LoPy4 board.
That is about the full list I can think of but other users may have other boards that can do OTA updates.](https://docs.pycom.io/)](Pycom LoPy4 Development Board - WRL-14674 - SparkFun Electronics)](SparkFun Photon RedBoard - DEV-13321 - SparkFun Electronics)](https://docs.particle.io/datasheets/wi-fi/argon-datasheet/)](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15068)](Over The Air Updates (OTA) - ESP32 - — ESP-IDF Programming Guide latest documentation)