- Sun Apr 12, 2020 3:09 am
#86448
Once you have OTA in a sketch working then you not need to serial flash any more and you don't need any flash button on GPIO0 or access to reset.
There are slightly different flavours of OTA. I normally use the webserver variation where the esp8266 is running a server which responds to browser access to something like http://ip/firmware which then allows selectin a binary to upload and flash. You can produce a new binary from the Arduino IDE (export binary).
The only caveat is that any new sketch you load must also contain a working OTA. If you have a separate dev environment then it is good to test that the ip/firmware link is working on any new sketch before uploading via OTA to a built project.
There are slightly different flavours of OTA. I normally use the webserver variation where the esp8266 is running a server which responds to browser access to something like http://ip/firmware which then allows selectin a binary to upload and flash. You can produce a new binary from the Arduino IDE (export binary).
The only caveat is that any new sketch you load must also contain a working OTA. If you have a separate dev environment then it is good to test that the ip/firmware link is working on any new sketch before uploading via OTA to a built project.
