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ESP8266 OTA Firmware Upgrade Manager
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README.md

This flow provides a tool for managing Over The Air firmware updates for ESP8266 Wifi SoC modules running the Arduino ESP8266 environment. It also supports Sonoff devices running the Tasmota firmware.

The ESP8266 is a very small, cheap, and reasonably powerful microcontroller with integrated WiFi. The OTA firmware upgrade process allows you to install these modules in location and have them automatically upgrade their firmware over WiFi.

The OTA upgrade library contacts a specified URL and passes the name and MD5 hash of the module's current firmware. This server implemented in this flow will compare the supplied MD5 hash against the one for the latest firmware and, if different, send the new firmware to the module. The server will uses either the module's MAC address or firmware name to identify the correct firmware file to send. The firmware can be specified in either the request URL or in the x-esp8266-version property in the request header.

This flow also includes a firmware management screen for uploading new firmware files, deleting firmware files, and creating symbolic links to existing firmware files. Symbolic links allow you to point a specific MAC address to a firmware file so as to be able to replace the firmware on a module with a completely different one.

The firmware manager is accessed from http://your.node-red.server:1880/esp8266-ota

A template for producing firmware with OTA upgrade built in is available from this gist. This template checks for a firmware update on each boot up. It then runs a process such as reading a sensor and publishing the value, before entering a power saving deep sleep. When it wakes, it will check for a firmware upgrade again and repeat the cycle.

The Sonoff TASMOTA firmware is also supported. Set the OTA URL to be the full path of the firmware, ie. http://your.node-red.server:1880/esp8266-ota/update/sonoff.ino.generic

You will need to use version 2.4.1 or greater of the Arduino ESP8266 core.

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Hi, I successfully imported your flow in my node-red instance running on a pi3 arch linux distribution. Installed node-red through native npm together with the needed libraries.

When I want to upload a firmware, it's trying to rename the temporarily file to the actual firmware directory and fails to do so:

Error: EXDEV: cross-device link not permitted, rename '/tmp/356ab0a70922b0dd58f2c5558ebb6882' -> '/storage/wemos/firmware/firmware.bin'

After googling around I found out it's because node shouldn't rename files across partitions and should use the mv functionality instead.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37153666/error-exdev-cross-device-link-not-permitted-rename-tmp-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts

I'm not sure if this is related to your flow or to the node-red implementation..

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Problem is with node-red-contrib-fs-ops. Fixed in 1.2.2

@Rene2705
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Hi, I am impressed by your article.

I have a node-red instance on my pi2 and I made a 'hello world' version of an esp temperature controller.
The ESP is not easily accessible so this OTA method will come in very helpful.
Looking forward to put this to the test.

I am fairly new to this so I am having a few problems.
Do I really need the ESP8266 2.4.1 core because the documentation of 2.3.0 states that it supports multiple OTA methods. How do i obtain ESP8266 core 2.4.1 ? I can't seem to find it on github. (again, sorry fairly new)

This method doesn't require the server and the ESP to be on the same network, like the arduinoOTA method. correct?
Regards,
Rene

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Greetings,
I imported your flow, but the web-ui doesnt seem to be loading. I don't see any UI nodes on the flow either, are you sure thefirmware manager can be accessed from http://your.node-red.server:1880/esp8266-ota ?

@DeanCording
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DeanCording commented Nov 14, 2020 via email

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samiul-hoque commented Nov 15, 2020 •
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You need to change 'your.node-red.sever' to the name of your actual Node Red server. On Friday, 13 November 2020 21:44:56 AEST Samiul Hoque wrote: @samiul-hoque commented on this gist. -------------------- Greetings,I imported your flow, but the web-ui doesnt seem to be loading. I don't see any UI nodes on the flow either, are you sure thefirmware manager can be accessed from http://your.node-red.server:1880/esp8266-ota[1] ? —You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub[2], or unsubscribe[3].[4]
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Yes obviously, I replaced it with my server IP. I am still am not being able to load it. Here's the message payload from the ota-manager http get node,

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/home/sysadmin/firmware/'

EDIT:
Solved it, by editing the 'Firmware Config' node. Firmware directory changed from '/home/sysadmin/firmware/' to /home//firmware/

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undercurrent77 commented Feb 3, 2021 •
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This is amazing work. Thanks so much for sharing this! Just had a quick question I hope you can help with. I've got it all up and running, but when I upload a new firmware .bin file to the web server, my esp reports through the serial monitor that the update fails.

Checking for firmware updates from server http://---.---.-.---:1880/esp8266-ota/update
HTTP update failed: Error (-102): File Not Found (404)

Am I correct to compile the binary out of the arduino ide and upload that file? Or should I be doing something else? I see reference to SPIFFS in the update type node on your node-red flow so was just curious.

Thanks!

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WittmannJ commented Jul 4, 2021 •
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Very impressive code. However I do not find the node-red package needed for the "config"-node aka the node named "Firmware config". Would you mind pointing me to the correct module? Thank you very much!

EDIT: Nevermind I found it myself :), here is the link for anyone who is curious Link

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