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The website and online validator for Homie
https://homieiot.github.io/
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Add Home-ota administration/management tool #13

Closed fvdpol closed 5 years ago

fvdpol commented 5 years ago

Add JP Mens' Homie-ota tool.

It provides an OTA server for Homie devices as well as a simple inventory which can be useful to keep track of Homie devices. Homie-ota also enables you to trigger an OTA update (over MQTT, using the Homie convention) from within its inventory. New firmware can be uploaded to homie-ota which detects firmware name (fwname) and version (fwversion) from the uploaded binary blob.

davidgraeff commented 5 years ago

Perfect. I have skimmed through your sources and noticed that you use the $implementation/ota/firmware topic.

This is not defined on Homie 3.0+. You are basically doing Homie 3.0 + "OTA Extension 1.0".

That is entirely OK, but it would be super helpful if you could work with firmware implementors together to come up with a name for that extension and a specification document. We will link that from the Homie main specification.

For now I like you to say in the version column "3.0 + Custom OTA". Thanks :)

fvdpol commented 5 years ago

Thanks for your feedback @davidgraeff. I updated the version as requested and improved the implementation note for this admin tool to make the intended use/purpose more clear.

Given the primary objective of @jpmens' homie-ota to manage the firmware updates for homie-esp8266 devices this OTA server focusses on the Homie 2.0 protocol since that is still the latest released version for esp8266.

Happy to work to both Homie and homie-ota team's to push this forward :-)

davidgraeff commented 5 years ago

still the latest released version for esp8266.

Unfortunately yes. Because the main author disappeared and merging the 3.0 version is now much more difficult. But I still have hope for the next weeks for this to happen.

marvinroger commented 5 years ago

FYI, I gave some long time contributors full admin access to the homieiot organization. So, the fact that I am "disappearing" (due to personal reasons) somehow should not be a problem anymore. 😉

marvinroger commented 5 years ago

@davidgraeff being one of them!