OTA Firmware update on Windows

RE: OTA Firmware update on Windows

WirelessCharging — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:20:14 GMT

Thanks Gordon, I'm truly grateful!

RE: OTA Firmware update on Windows

Gordon — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 08:47:21 GMT

In the end we got it to work using Web Bluetooth (Bluetooth from within Chrome/Edge/Opera Browsers). There's an implementation here: https://github.com/thegecko/web-bluetooth-dfu

That implementation will work under Node.js/NW.js/Electron too, so could be packaged up into a Windows application reasonably easily if required.

RE: OTA Firmware update on Windows

WirelessCharging — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 08:34:03 GMT

Has anyone gotten this to work? I'm also targeting the task of implementing DFU OTA from PC desktop app. Would be much appreciated if anyone has a working code project for this.

RE: OTA Firmware update on Windows

Gordon — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:40:11 GMT

Great - thanks!

RE: OTA Firmware update on Windows

bjorn-spockeli — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:24:33 GMT

I understand that you cannot ask that of your users. I agree that it would be useful for our customers and I will forward your feedback to our SW developers.

RE: OTA Firmware update on Windows

Gordon — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 11:16:02 GMT

Ok - thanks! Personally, I think a native Windows example app (or Python using a non-nordic BLE API) would be really helpful. While pc-nrfutil looks handy, I can't ask a user of my hardware to go out and buy an nRF dongle just to update the firmware.

RE: OTA Firmware update on Windows

bjorn-spockeli — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 10:22:35 GMT

Hi Gordon,

We do not have any example application or example code using the Windows 8.1 API to perform Secure DFU. You can perform Secure DFU with our pc-nrfutil tool, found here. The pc-nrfutil tool uses our SoftDevice serialization API and requires Nordic hardware (nRF5x Dk or Dongle) flashed with our connectivity firmware.

Best regards

Bjørn