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Developing IoT Projects with ESP32

You're reading from   Developing IoT Projects with ESP32 Automate your home or business with inexpensive Wi-Fi devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838641160
Length 474 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vedat Ozan Oner Vedat Ozan Oner
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Using ESP32
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with ESP32 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Talking to the Earth – Sensors and Actuators 4. Chapter 3: Impressive Outputs with Displays 5. Chapter 4: A Deep Dive into the Advanced Features 6. Chapter 5: Practice – Multisensor for Your Room 7. Section 2: Local Network Communication
8. Chapter 6: A Good Old Friend – Wi-Fi 9. Chapter 7: Security First! 10. Chapter 8: I Can Speak BLE 11. Chapter 9: Practice – Making Your Home Smart 12. Section 3: Cloud Communication
13. Chapter 10: No Cloud, No IoT – Cloud Platforms and Services 14. Chapter 11: Connectivity Is Never Enough – Third-Party Integrations 15. Chapter 12: Practice – A Voice-Controlled Smart Fan 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Secure boot and over-the-air (OTA) updates

Basically, secure boot is the way we make sure our devices run only our firmware and prevent third parties from tampering with our devices. Before delving into secure boot, let's talk about the boot process of ESP32.

The boot process has three stages:

  1. First-stage bootloader: This happens upon reset. ESP32 has two processors, named PRO CPU (cpu0) and APP CPU (cpu1). PRO CPU runs and does all hardware initialization. We don't have any control at this stage. After initialization, control is passed to the second stage bootloader.
  2. Second-stage bootloader: The main responsibility of the second-stage bootloader is to find and load the application. It reads the partition table, checks factory and OTA partitions, and based on the OTA info, it loads the correct partition as the application. It also controls flash encryption, secure boot, and OTA updates. The source code is provided along with ESP-IDF, so we can modify this bootloader...
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