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Over the air Updated via 4Diac IDE [message #1854137] Wed, 03 August 2022 06:11 Go to next message
Mahendra Sondagar is currently offline Mahendra SondagarFriend
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Hello geeks!
Hope all are doing well


We have a custom PLC board having the ARM architecture as a CPU.
At this instance, we're able to port the FORTE run time environment to our custom PLC board

Not only, that but we are also able to generate and run the blinky code on a too of it
To send the binary file to hardware, we're using Local server configuration at where, the IDE is installed with the local host and the PLC also have the local IP connection via ethernet

Now, we keen to know is there any possibility or remedy by which we can do the OTA update through the 4DIAC ide ?

Let's suppose consider that, we're installing the IDE at EC2 instance with the public IP


All suggestions and comments welcome :)

Thanks
Mahendra Sondagar

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Re: Over the air Updated via 4Diac IDE [message #1854155 is a reply to message #1854137] Wed, 03 August 2022 19:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Alois Zoitl is currently offline Alois ZoitlFriend
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Hi ,

I'm not an expert on that matter, but I fear this is not as easy. One option could be to generate boot files from 4diac IDE in the EC2 instance and use the OTA update tools like Eclipse Hawkbit to deploy the boot files on your device.

BR,
Alois

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Re: Over the air Updated via 4Diac IDE [message #1854193 is a reply to message #1854155] Fri, 05 August 2022 12:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mahendra Sondagar is currently offline Mahendra SondagarFriend
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hI... Mr. Alois Zoitl

Thanks for the revert :)
Yes, i also think so

Actually, i have a expertise on IoT with embedded Firmware
I'm not a PLC guy.

But i have some plan in my mind
I need the some input from your side

1. What is the extension of any build generated from 4Diac IDE, let's say blinky code build?
2. At where does, it stored on a particular PLC board after remote update from the 4Diac over ethernet?

As i believe the directory is Fixed from where Forte picking up the build


Thanks
Mahendra






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Re: Over the air Updated via 4Diac IDE [message #1854309 is a reply to message #1854193] Fri, 12 August 2022 13:11 Go to previous message
Alois Zoitl is currently offline Alois ZoitlFriend
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Hi,
not sure if I understand your questions correctly. But assuming that you have a 4diac FORTE executable with all blocks available then we have a so called bootfile which contains the startup configuration (e.g., which blocks to instantiate and how to connect). This boot file is loaded by 4diac FORTE when it is started. Per default 4diac FORTE looks in the current directory for a file called forte.fboot. But you can also provide a boot file and its location as command line parameters. Please see our documenation on boot files for more details.

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