OTA deployment

[papperone]

Hi, I'm starting to move all my ESP8266/WemosD1 to ESPEasy and I must admit it makes life easier than before as I can deal with all of them remotely.
Only one feature I used to have implemented I miss.
I used to have all my ESP listen to a global MQTT topic for general purpouses and one handy one was to lauch a new firmware update to all units using OTA.
As far as I understood with ESPEasy I need to manually upload a new firmware to each unit individually, and with dozens of them in multiple setup I do manage it makes this very time spending.
Any clue if this can be somehow implemented in current version or it shoudl be part of future release requests?

[moelski]

Hi !

Since the devs wan´t to be able to support the old 512kb modules I think there is no room for such a feature.
Read here: http://www.esp8266.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2107

But hey, take the sources from Github, add the OTA feature, compile and flash.
I think taht should not be so complicated

[papperone]

of course it's not... My idea is to do it of course as I already have a similar function in my previous sketches!
As soon as I will have some free time I'll study how to proeprly implement it in EASPEasy; about old 512Kb module I believe it's really limiting to keep on supporting them (ESP01 with 2 GPIOs what benefits you can have with such a big featured firmware with dozens of devices supported as anyhow you are limited to handle a couple?).

I think it's more logical to freeze last release stable that supports 512Kb modules and move ahead for minimum 1Mb for all future releases. Does it make sense?