Wi-Fi Security Advisory
In case you missed it, Espressif announced a major Wi-Fi security vulnerability affecting all ESP32 chips with Wi-Fi. When an ESP32 or ESP8266 SoC is con...
Recent posts
IDF v5.0 Enters Maintenance Mode
As of today, IDF v5.0 has entered the 18 month Maintenance period which is defined by Espressif as: During the Maintenance period, the version is still s...
IDF v4.4.6 Released
Today Espressif released IDF v4.4.6 which is the latest bugfix update for ESP-IDF v4.4
Introducing Device Deletion
Deploy the Fleet now supports deleting a device from your product’s device list.
Provision ESP32 over BLE with the Arduino Library
A Deploy the Fleet customer recently reached out asking if we have any advice on approaches to provisioning an ESP32 device with WiFi credentials. Many are f...
Learn ESP32 Course
Several years ago I launched my very first IoT product based on the Particle P1 module. I was an original backer of the Particle Spark Core module on Kicksta...
FIX: Can’t Program ESP32 in PopOS 22.04
If you, like me, are a fan of the PopOS distro of LInux you may have run into an issue with the recent 22.04 Update. After updating to 22.04 you may find tha...
3 Simple Ways to Reclaim Flash Partition Space in Your ESP32 Project
If you find yourself running out of flash space for your ESP32 applications this post will give you 3 very simple ways to get some of that space back.
Delete Firmware Support
It is now possible to delete firmware in Deploy the Fleet. This is useful if you want to clean up old firmware or simply need to remove a firmware created by...
Arduino Core OTA Partition Size and Gzipping
When using the ESP Arduino Core library to flash updates for ESP8266 devices you must ensure you have a properly sized OTA partition. This article covers wha...