This guide demonstrates the FOTA (Firmware-Over-The-Air) function for ESP8266-based devices. In particular, the guide outlines the process of upgrading ESP8266 firmware from Espressif Cloud over Wi-Fi by using our Android app. This process requires no technical skills and does not involve a PC or UART based tools. Therefore this process can be carried out by any user, including end users of ESP8266 based products. The FOTA test has been demonstrated and run on the ESP-Launcher, an ESP8266 evaluation board designed by Espressif.

Espressif provides guidelines and a sample implementation of FOTA (Firmware Over-The-Air) function to upgrade the firmware on devices powered by the ESP8266. ESP8266 device will download a new version of firmware from the update server over Wi-Fi and run it. This guide is intended to help you run a FOTA demonstration on the ESP8266 easily and quickly, with a PC acting as the local update server. The FOTA test has been demonstrated and run on the ESP-Launcher, an ESP8266 evaluation board designed by Espressif.

The UART passthrough mode has been provided with the AT firmware to facilitate sending of data blocks of large size and for continuous transmission of small packets of data. In the passthrough mode, the data sent by the main application processor is directly forwarded to the target networking device via a TCP or UDP connection. Here, the ESP8266 AT firmware handles the networking tasks involved. This guide is intended to help users run TCP & UDP passthrough test on the ESP8266 IOT Platform quickly to evaluate the feature with various networking configurations of the ESP8266.

This guide is intended to help users run ping test on the ESP8266 easily and quickly. It demonstrates the testing of network connectivity by running ping test in Station mode or SoftAP mode of ESP8266. The ping test has been demonstrated and run on the ESP-Launcher. However, with appropriate build settings, the test can be made to run on any ESP8266-based system.