#Upgrading multiple drones at once

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somber apex
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I'm new to BetaFlight and wanted to know if anybody has tried updating/installing Betaflight on multiple devices (drones) at once.
For example - I have 5 drones, which should be updated with the same firmware. Maybe there is a way to connect them all (via WiFi or just cable) to my laptop and run the installation at once? Not by plugging them directly into my laptop one by one.
It could save me a lot of time.
Any help appreciated 🙏

mellow shale
somber apex
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I was just wondering if there is a way to connect the drone via WiFi?
If yes then tools like Ansible coul be potentially used to automatically roll the upgrades

mellow shale
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Wifi configuration is currently possible, but I don't think you can flash through it

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It may be achievable to use a third-party tool to flash over multiple DFU connections, but I'm not sure if that's possible either

somber apex
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Maybe you could name a few (third-party tools)? I would love to investigate more in that direction

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Or, maybe for simplicity if I'm forced to use 1-by-1 connections there is a way to download some profiles (configs) and then just by running some CLI commands perform the configuration upload?
Would also work in my case, just for speeding things up

mellow shale
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Do you want to flash new firmware version or just change the config?

somber apex
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Sorry for bringing the misunderstanding here.
Second option (only the config)

mellow shale
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Oh

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Yeah that's very easy to automate then

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Open a serial connection to your desired COM port(s), initialize CLI mode, and then just send whatever CLI you want

somber apex
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| initialize CLI mode
Is the a manual on how to do that 😅

mellow shale
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Send a # character over the serial connection

wet egret
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there was similar discussion, please see #1156227806406119475 message