configuring multiple devices

[agroszer]

Hi,

I'll have a load of ESPs (10+) soon.
I'd avoid somehow to have to configure every single one via the browser by clicking around.
Is there something out there that can do this for me?
Or even better, I'd have a sheet/file/something describing the config of each (mostly similar) ESP config and run a script that does the configuration for me?

[TD-er]

Of course you could copy the config files from the file system and upload them to another node.
The Settings archive feature allows to "clone" a unit by downloading the files from another node.

However these do not change the settings.

Another thing you could do, is fetch the POST from when you save some settings page.
This can then be altered and scripted using something like CURL.
Some unit specific things, like the unit-nr can be set via commands.

[agroszer]

Here it comes: https://github.com/agroszer/esp-config-updater

[TD-er]

Hmm, if it does what I think it does, then it looks promising.
However, I don't really get the structure of the example Excel sheet.

[agroszer]

Updated the sheet a bit with colors and comments. Hope that makes it a bit more clear. Feel free to ask what's not clear.

[TD-er]

Ah now I thing I understand.
I was thinking like one big spreadsheet, but you just define a group of nodes and some settings for that group to be applied.

[agroszer]

Yes, that's how I'd handle common settings across more nodes instead of copypasting rows in the sheet.
But if you better like copypaste, you can still do that.

Next might be a script that executes actions across more nodes.