OTA Connect User Guide

Create a fixed group

You can use a fixed device group to test a software update on a few devices before you launch a bigger campaign.

To create a fixed group, you need to add devices by dragging them to the group or uploading a list of device IDs.

To create a fixed device group by dragging devices:

  1. Go to the Devices tab.

  2. Click Create group.

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  3. Select Fixed device group, and then click Next.

  4. Specify the group name.

  5. Click Create.

    The created group appears in the Groups pane.

  6. In the Groups pane, click the All devices section or the needed item in the Ungrouped devices section, and then drag the needed devices to the group that you created.

You group is now populated with devices.

Advanced: Create a fixed device group by uploading a list of device IDs

You can also add devices to a fixed group by importing a list of device IDs.

To group devices by adding a list of device IDs:

  1. Create a list of device IDs.

    Currently, there is no way to export a list of provisioned device IDs from the OTA Connect portal. The best way to create this list is to have your developers define the device IDs and ask them for the list of the device IDs that they provisioned.

    Your list of device IDs needs to be a .txt file with one ID on each line. Make sure there are no carriage return characters, and the lines are separated only by new line characters.

  2. Go to the Devices tab.

  3. In the Groups pane, click Create group.

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  4. Select Fixed device group, and then click Next.

  5. Specify the group name.

  6. Click Choose file.

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  7. Select the file that contains the list of device IDs.

  8. Click Create.

    The created group appears in the Groups pane. Open the group that you just created and check that your devices were added correctly.