This library adds a device configuration section called update, where a device could be configured to poll a specified HTTP URL for a new app firmware.

Also, this library adds a C API to fetch a new firmware from the given URL and update programmatically.

The library adds the following object to the device configuration:

  "update": {
    "commit_timeout": 0,        // OTA commit timeout
    "url": "",                  // HTTP URL to poll
    "interval": 0,              // Polling interval
    "extra_http_headers": "",   // Extra HTTP request headers
    "ssl_ca_file": "ca.pem",    // TLS CA cert file
    "ssl_client_cert_file": "", // TLS cert file
    "ssl_server_name": "",      // TLS server name
    "enable_post": true
  }

The library includes the following additional headers with the request:

• X-MGOS-Device-ID: ID MAC
  • ID is the value of the device.id configuration variable, if set, otherwise -.
  • MAC is device's primary MAC address (as returned by device_get_mac_address().
• User-Agent: APP/APP_VERSION (MongooseOS/MGOS_VERSION; PLATFORM)
  • APP is the name of the application.
  • APP_VERSION is the version of the application (from mos.yml)
  • MGOS_VERSION is the version of Mongoose OS
  • PLATFORM is the target platform
• X-MGOS-FW-Version: PLATFORM APP_VERSION APP_BUILD_ID
  • PLATFORM is the target platform
  • APP_VERSION is the version of the application (from mos.yml)
  • APP_BUILD_ID is the build identification string (generated at build time)

Client code supports redirects (301 or 302 response code + Location header).

Client interprets 304 Not Modified as "no update at this time".

Example of a server that serves uodates depending on the current version of the firmware can be found here.