RE: Anyone do successfully DFU OTA from Linux ?

JuP0 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:05:57 GMT

Hi,

For anyone landing here from a search: yes, this works well on Linux today.

We needed the same thing — flashing boards from a Linux bench at the end of
test — so we built a small CLI for it in Go:

github.com/.../ed-nrfdfu

It talks to BlueZ over D-Bus and runs Nordic Secure DFU over BLE straight
from the terminal, no phone and no GUI, so it drops into a production
script. It's a single static binary and we publish linux/arm64 builds, so
it runs on a Raspberry Pi with nothing to install.

go install github.com/E-DEVICE/ed-nrfdfu@latest
ed-nrfdfu --mac "AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF" --dfuPath firmware.zip

One prerequisite worth stating: it expects the device to already be
advertising in DFU/bootloader mode. It does not trigger the buttonless
transition from your application firmware. But this features could be added quickly.

The license is Apache 2.0 so do what ever you feel with this repo.

It's a developer aid rather than a certified production
component. Linux/BlueZ is what we use daily; the macOS and Windows backends
are implemented but not yet tested against real hardware.

RE: Anyone do successfully DFU OTA from Linux ?

Vidar Berg — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:34:23 GMT

Unfortunately, we don't have an example using bluez, but maybe someone else have. The requirements for the central can be found here if you want to try to implement it yourself.