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...
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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.
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...
Support for Gzipped Firmware
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?
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
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
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...