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You have to do OTA software updates for your Yocto image so what does the process look like? The first thing is deciding what kind of update you want. As a user you might tend to think immediately about RootFileSystem updates for operating the whole file system. This is a good choice for many. But not necessarily for all users. There are other kinds of updates that you can do, such as updating con...

Yocto is an entire operating system image from scratch from source and a Yocto software update should be over-the-air at this point. You can learn here how to prepare a Yocto Project environment from scratch or go further and create custom images using the Yocto Project. Yocto comes with the advantages of being light and streamlined as a distribution. Yocto is a source-based distribution which...

You must decide how to start out and which operating system and software platform to build your IoT product on. A key consideration will be to start with some version of Debian (Raspberry Pi OS or Raspbian) or go straight for a custom Linux distribution such as Yocto or Buildroot?

Bear in mind, if you start with a version of Debian for your Raspberry Pi then this come...

How can you set up secure remote monitoring for your Raspberry Pi single board computer (SBC) in your IoT device? You will want to target misbehaving devices that include the Raspberry Pi SBC easily. At some point in time, as you move from proof of concept to production and when your device fleet grows large enough, you want to be up-front about catching misbehaving devices. You will want to ident...

It is almost inevitable that at some point in time, some of the devices in your IoT device fleet will malfunction in some way or another. You need a plan to address this. Port forwarding as a way to remote access a device can create a security risk if not performed correctly. Leveraging Raspberry Pi port forwarding can expose a network port on your network to the public internet. This is a known s...