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FIX: Can’t Program ESP32 in PopOS 22.04

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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...

Delete Firmware Support

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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

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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...

Support for Gzipped Firmware

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If you use the Arduino Core library for ESP8266 devices you can now upload Gzipped firmware directly to Deploy the Fleet.

Do I Really Need OTA Updates?

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Since the dawn of the Internet of Things there has been a seemingly endless wave of change. Platforms come and go, protocols come and go and even the tech st...

Why I Built Deploy the Fleet

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My First Product Like most makers I never really had a pressing need to update a device over-the-air. If it had a bug or I developed a new feature I’d just g...

Correct ESP8266 OTA HTTP Server Headers

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If you are using the Arduino Core libraries in your ESP8266 library and want to do OTA updates using the HTTP Server method you may have run into issues with...