Support Over-the-Air (OTA) uploads

[sernaleon]

Currently some boards with built-in wifi (ESP8266, ESP32) support uploads over the air. This feaure is available in other VSCode extensions such as PlatformIO.

My suggestion would be to be able to select an IP address instead of a serial port when the board supports OTA.

[leppie]

You can just set port to an IP address in arduino.json.

[sernaleon]

Thanks @leppie, it works indeed! But at the cost of disabling the serial monitor, since this one will try to open the communication with the provided IP (instead of an actual serial port).

So in short, the raw functionality is there, but not via commands and conflicting with the serial monitor.

Maybe an idea would be to have the possibility of distinct between serial port and upload port.

[leppie]

You can just keep something else open for serial comms, like Termite. That's what I do :D

[sernaleon]

I created a pull request with my suggested solution. You can find it here: #362

[tommitytom]

leppie's suggestion does not work for me, I get the following error:
avrdude: ser_open(): can't open device "192.168.1.235": No such file or directory

Am I missing something?

[Robotto]

Adding the IP address as port number does not work when OTA is set up with access restriction.. i.e. an OTA flash that requires a password.

[czgtest]

this issue is dulplicate with #362

[czgtest]

the issue #362 , #359 has the same request.

[czgtest]

#452 and #454