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esp32_ota [2024/03/19 18:47] sausage [The stock firmware] |
esp32_ota [2024/03/20 01:50] sausage [ESP32 OTA and Rollbacks - What happens under the hood?] |
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| Over The Air (OTA) provides a way to send firmware to your ESP32 board in the field without the need for a cable and physical access to the device. | Over The Air (OTA) provides a way to send firmware to your ESP32 board in the field without the need for a cable and physical access to the device. | ||
| - | The purpose of this article is manually step through the various stages of the OTA process and illustrate the state of the ESP32 at each stage. | + | The purpose of this article is to manually step through the various stages of the OTA process and illustrate the state of the ESP32 at each stage. |
| Together we will set up a number of firmwares suitable for testing on different partitions in flash memory. | Together we will set up a number of firmwares suitable for testing on different partitions in flash memory. | ||
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| - 4blinks.bin | - 4blinks.bin | ||
| - | Now the ''idf.py flash'' command is only able to flash the default project firmware to the ''factory'' partition. So we'll need to switch to a different command to flash a named firmware to a particular partition. | + | Note that the ''idf.py flash'' command is only able to flash the default project firmware to the ''factory'' partition. So we'll need to switch to a different command to flash a named firmware to a particular partition. |
| Take another look at our partitions table. | Take another look at our partitions table. | ||
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| All our firmwares failed to run the ''esp_ota_mark_app_valid_cancel_rollback()'' to mark the ''otadata'' as valid. So in each case, they have become aborted and rolled back to the previously known good firmware. | All our firmwares failed to run the ''esp_ota_mark_app_valid_cancel_rollback()'' to mark the ''otadata'' as valid. So in each case, they have become aborted and rolled back to the previously known good firmware. | ||
| - | The ''factory'' firmware isn't controlled by the ''otadata'', the rollback process or OTA at all. | + | The ''factory'' firmware isn't affected by ''otadata'', or the rollback process, or OTA at all. |
| To finish up, let's take a last look at the raw otadata: | To finish up, let's take a last look at the raw otadata: | ||
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| ===== Thank yous ===== | ===== Thank yous ===== | ||
| - | Many thanks to boarchuz and craig from the [[https://discord.gg/wwK29JJV|Espressif MCUs]] discord server for their advice on details in this article. | + | Many thanks to boarchuz and craig from the [[https://discord.gg/wwK29JJV|Espressif MCUs]] discord server for their assistance with this article. |
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