Namellac (Customer) asked a question.
Finally got a prototype working directly with the PLC on the machine. Since I'm going to have to deploy 100+ of these, has anybody been able to get any off the shelf IOT orchestration software to work with the P1AM- series?
Or am I going to have to write my own bootloader, etc.
The P1AM being an Arduino supports a wide range of IoT capabilities. Do you have something more specific you are looking to do?
I want to be able to update the onboard programming remotely. We have 100+ machines under 40 acres of roof. I'm going to wear my shoes out walking to each machine to update the code.
I've found two possible ways you can try to achieve this.
Video Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xdsc1qqoro
Website Reference: https://docs.arduino.cc/arduino-cloud/features/ota-getting-started/
The ArduinoOTA library seems like the easier method.
I haven't uploaded any code myself via OTA. I'll try out the ArduinoOTA myself but it seems doable and supports WiFi which I think you made a shield for.
I was able to upload code successfully using the arduinoOTA library example OTEthernet. I have a P1AM-100 w/ a P1AM-Ethernet shield.
The ESP32 wifi board is supported so I would try the WiFi examples the library has to see if you can get something working.
ArduinoIDE: File --> Examples --> ArduinoOTA
An issue I ran into is I was not able to upload code successfully using the SD storage option. I would use the InternalStorage examples.