Possibility to run ElegantOTA with PsychicHttp

[T94T]

Is there an easy way to run ElegantOTA in combination with https://github.com/hoeken/PsychicHttp instead of ESPAsyncWebServer?

[HowardsPlayPen]

I was just about to raise an issue to see if there was any desire (or backlash) against submitting a PR with a patch to allow a compile flag to incorporate PsychicHttp - as I have a working version that does this

Is there any other view on this (I ask because AsyncWebServer does not look to be actively supported and PsychicHttp looks to be more efficient)

[T94T]

Sounds great!

We use websockets a lot and it seems to run much more stable with PsychicHttp than with ESPAsyncWebServer. ESPAsyncWebServer is not maintained for a longer time and it has many open issues/PRs. In our opinion it would be a great feature to enable PsychicHttp by default.

[HowardsPlayPen]

I just put my updates into a fork of ElegantOTA in https://github.com/HowardsPlayPen/ElegantOTA and I shall send a PR later with the tweaks (once I triple check that it all looks good). I have included a simple example that shows the build flag to use in platform.ini

[T94T]

Really cool! I just tested your fork, and it works great.

[ayushsharma82]

@HowardsPlayPen Let me know when PR is ready, PsychicHttp looks great.

[HowardsPlayPen]

I have just sent a PR - let me know if there is anything you don't like..

[T94T]

Uploading with elegantota_upload.py throws an error: <Response [405]> Request method for this URI is not handled by server Is there a server listener missing?

[HowardsPlayPen]

Hello - apologies, I am not familiar with that python script or what it does. Do you think this is down to the PsychicHttp code I integrated (does it work with the regular code base?). I have not watched to see if ElegantOTA has been updated to know if there are any updates that might conflict somehow. I am happy to have a look if you gave more details

[T94T]

I just wanted to write a short description of how we tested the upload script. It seems that we had an older version of platformio_upload.py called elegantota_upload.py. Updating the script solved our problem.

With platformio_upload.py you can upload the firmware directly from VSCode to the device via OTA.

Steps to do:

1. Take the current platformio_upload.py script from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ayushsharma82/ElegantOTA/master/platformio_upload.py and place it in the project's root folder beside platformoi.ini
2. Add the following configuration to the board's [env] section platformio.ini:

extra_scripts = platformio_upload.py
upload_protocol = custom
custom_upload_url = http://DEVICEADDRESS/update

4. Build and upload the project in VSCode (PlatformIO)

VSCode terminal output:

CURRENT: upload_protocol = custom
Uploading .pio/build/esp32-wroom-OTA/firmware.bin
Serverconfiguration: autentication not needed.

Upload Progress:   0%|          | 0.00/927k [00:00<?, ?B/s]
Upload Progress:  17%|█▋        | 160k/927k [00:00<00:01, 697kB/s]
Upload Progress:  26%|██▌       | 240k/927k [00:00<00:02, 255kB/s]
Upload Progress:  31%|███       | 288k/927k [00:01<00:03, 196kB/s]
Upload Progress:  35%|███▍      | 320k/927k [00:01<00:03, 194kB/s]
Upload Progress:  38%|███▊      | 352k/927k [00:01<00:03, 148kB/s]
Upload Progress:  41%|████▏     | 384k/927k [00:01<00:03, 163kB/s]
Upload Progress:  45%|████▍     | 416k/927k [00:02<00:03, 132kB/s]
Upload Progress:  48%|████▊     | 448k/927k [00:02<00:03, 146kB/s]
Upload Progress:  52%|█████▏    | 480k/927k [00:02<00:03, 116kB/s]
Upload Progress: 100%|██████████| 927k/927k [00:08<00:00, 116kB/s]

Upload successful.
Server response: OK

@ayushsharma82 could you please merge https://github.com/ayushsharma82/ElegantOTA/pull/159 from @HowardsPlayPen?