It's always troublesome to update firmware for your IoT projects? Tried Arduino BasicOTA examples, but never get it to work? Then you must try AsyncElegantOTA! It's very easy to use and I've succeed the first time I try it.
For those of you do not have time to watch it all, here is the video timeline for your quick reference.
Video Timeline:
00:13 Tutorial summary 00:53 What's OTA & Why 01:25 Tutorial begin 01:36 Install AsyncElegantOTA library 02:32 Download ESPAsyncWebServer & ESPAsyncTCP 02:57 Ensure Arduino board is capable of OTA 03:41 Where to place downloaded libraries 04:09 Open sample AsyncElegantOTA sketch 04:52 Upload sketch 05:05 Open serial monitor to see ESP8266 IP address 05:36 Access to ESP8266 from browser 06:10 Update ESP8266 firmware from browser 06:31 Where to find .bin file in VS Code 06:54 How to create .bin file in Arduino IDE 08:16 OTA update ESP8266 firmware 09:01 Next video tutorial - How to combine ESP8266 project with AsyncElegantOTA library
Library URL:
- AsyncElegantOTA: https://github.com/ayushsharma82/AsyncElegantOTA
- ESPAsyncWebServer: https://github.com/me-no-dev/ESPAsyncWebServer
- ESPAsyncTCP: https://github.com/me-no-dev/ESPAsyncTCP
- For ESP32, you need the AsyncTCP library: https://github.com/me-no-dev/AsyncTCP
