esp-idf VS ElegantOTA

Compare esp-idf vs ElegantOTA and see what are their differences.

esp-idf

Espressif IoT Development Framework. Official development framework for Espressif SoCs. (by espressif)
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esp-idf ElegantOTA
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12,479 516
3.2% -
10.0 8.1
1 day ago 6 days ago
C C++
Apache License 2.0 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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esp-idf

Posts with mentions or reviews of esp-idf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

ElegantOTA

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  • OTA Updates & Community Resources
    1 project | /r/esp32 | 14 Feb 2023
    As u/__deeetz__ pointed out, the esp32 already had a good OTA mechanism, and there are some libraries that simplify the whole process - probably one of the more popular ones is ElegantOTA: https://github.com/ayushsharma82/ElegantOTA If I understand what you're doing correctly, you'll really have just 2 layers, not 3 - one being your application (which effectively has the Kernel/OS compiled in), and then your scripting/LUA component. Technically the ESP32 also has a bootloader portion, but it's pretty uncommon to need to modify that in any way, so I would highly recommend against doing that. As far as dealing with the LUA scripts - you can easily download and run those - you'll store them into NV ram, and I believe the current recommended format is LittleFS. Keep in mind that on a normal ESP32 configured to do OTA updates there's 4MB of storage, 2x 1.8MB for the two bootable images, and ~200k for the file system (in this case LittleFS). There are also other boards which come with more flash memory, like the new S3R8 has 16MB of flash, so your OTA partitions stay about the same in most cases, but you now have ~12MB of storage, which I suspect would be way beyond anything you'd need for storing LUA.
  • How to power esp32-33 Feather TFT?
    1 project | /r/esp32 | 17 Jan 2023
  • ESP32 C3 firmware upgrade over UART to select partition
    3 projects | /r/esp32 | 6 Jul 2022
  • Example of OTA via HTTP server on IDF?
    5 projects | /r/esp32 | 20 Jan 2022
    I'm looking for a small, thin example of the ESP32 hosting a webserver to accept firmware update files for OTA updates. There's a handful of Arduino libraries that do exactly this (e.g. https://github.com/ayushsharma82/ElegantOTA) but I haven't come across anything clean that's just built around IDF.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing esp-idf and ElegantOTA you can also consider the following projects:

arduino-esp32 - Arduino core for the ESP32

Sonoff-Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at [Moved to: https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota]

MicroPython - MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems

esp32_template

WiFiManager - ESP8266 WiFi Connection manager with web captive portal

fpc-esp-freertos

WLED - Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi!

Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

Unity Test API - Simple Unit Testing for C

Arduino-HomeKit-ESP8266 - Native Apple HomeKit accessory implementation for the ESP8266 Arduino core.

esptool-js - Javascript implementation of flasher tool for Espressif chips, running in web browser using WebSerial.

i2s-upnp-bridge - Stream I2S audio to UPnP renderers with an ESP32.