Integrate Over The Air Updates

ota update has become a critical requirement for devices being deployed remotely this guide covers how to integrate over the air upgrades using uplink there are four steps to trying out ota updates with bytbeam step 1 create the update artifact update artifacts with bytebeam are simple tar files containing an executable script called updater uplink download the tar file, extract it, and run the updater script currently, we support four types of updates app update is the simplest form of update, to start with refer to the appropriate update sections to create the tar file for each update type docid\ wkgjxbh2mpi3lvonh hxe app update replaces the old app binary on the device with the new binary uploaded to the bytebeam cloud docid\ m53c2yyabddy4tlnztn9i this is similar to an app update but with a rollback feature this allows the device to roll back to the previous version of the app if the update fails docid\ uhugeu2jciykrjhh covp deb update installs the provided deb package onto the device docid\ cfhjohxx8ur4jgid4vfne this updates the entire rootfs, kernel, and firmware files(in the boot partition) as well step 2 upload the update file refer to the guide on docid\ isaoic5 7ftnjttco55ih step 3 trigger an ota update from the cloud refer to the guide on docid\ adgo fn2yj0q5lptibrqo step 4 uplink runs updater script uplink downloads the tar file, extracts the contents, and runs the updater script