OTA Updates via LoRa with ESP32/ESP8266

[Miske]

Hello,

How can I do an OTA update with node-red, mqtt and Arduino IDE via LoRa with an ESP32?

This topic does not help me: Does node-red supports over the air (OTA) update?

I can already send data over mqtt to the node with base64. I want to send a firmware to the device:
First the binary has to be split, so I can send via LoRa it piece by piece, but how did I do that?
Do I have to convert the binary file (Firmware image) to base64? And then send it piece by piece?

Thanks for help.

[bsiege]

Hi, OTA Updates are AFAIK far out of scope. Most because duty cycle and TTN allows only very, very low data rates by design.

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@bsiege

Hi, OTA Updates are AFAIK far out of scope. Most because duty cycle and TTN allows only very, very low data rates by design.

Indeed, a Gateway having to transmit fairly large files at the typically low data rates available, to a large number of nodes, would run into significant legal issues with duty cycle restrictions …

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