OTA in IRMQTTServer

[zevele]

Hi,

I'm trying to understand how to use the OTA option. I've added a password and I see I can upload a ROM file. I'm using the Arduino IDE to compile a custom version of the server. Where do I find the files to upload?
I've also tried to include ArduinoOTA into the code so I could upload directly from the IDE. But it seems there is some conflict with the existing code - After 1 minute the network port disconnects and disappears from the IDE.

Thanks

[NiKiZe]

There is some documentation in the sources.
You will need to grab the file that is built, enable verbose build output to see where the file ends up, you then upload that file.

OTA depends on it getting enough slices to do it's work in the loop, if the loop blocks for a longer time it could explain the timeout you are seeing.

[zevele]

Thanks NiKiZe. I'll try that - looking for the output file.

Regarding the loop() slices - That's what I thought so I changed the delay(100) at the end of loop() to use conditional with millis() - it didn't help. So I tried removing (almost) everything from loop(), except for ArduinoOTA.handle() and server.handleClient() but it didn't help. The port disappears exactly 1 minute after reboot - but I didn't find anything special happening after 1 minute (regardless of whet I do in loop()). With the ArduinoOTA example everything works fine.

[crankyoldgit]

Where do I find the files to upload?

First hit on google: https://www.aranacorp.com/en/generating-and-uploading-bin-files-to-an-esp8266/

[zevele]

😊 D'oh! thanks!