Native OTA and simple OTA (GIT8266O-298)

[dipendra77]

Hi,
Can anyone tell me the differences between native OTA and simple OTA support for ESP8266 and in what context of Over the Air upgrade are they used ? I just want to upgrade the firmware on the device with a new binary file? which one should I opt for ?

Thank you in advance.

[xuhongv]

simple OTA maybe is the best for you

[ustccw]

@dipendra77 please take a look at pinned issue if you are interested in native OTA:
#489

In short, you only need to care about simple OTA if you set up your projects after SDK version 3.x

[dipendra77]

simple OTA maybe is the best for you

Can you please explain the difference ? On what basis should we decide whether to goo with simple ota or native ota?

[27-301]

native ota may need to use the esp_ota, partition, http, etc. API directly, but simple ota does a wrap, so you can just call esp_https_ota, it's simple.