The library provides access to the Device Update for IoT Hub service that enables customers to publish updates for their IoT devices to the cloud, and then deploy these updates to their devices (approve updates to groups of devices managed and provisioned in IoT Hub).

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Disclaimer

Azure SDK Python packages support for Python 2.7 has ended 01 January 2022. For more information and questions, please refer tohttps://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/issues/20691

Getting started

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Azure Subscription: To call Microsoft Azure services, you need to create anAzure subscription
• Device Update for IoT Hub instance
• Azure IoT Hub instance
• Python 3.6 or later is required to use this package.

Install the package

Install the Device Update for IoT Hub client library for Python withpip:

pip install azure-iot-deviceupdate

Key concepts

Device Update for IoT Hub is a managed service that enables you to deploy over-the-air updates for your IoT devices. The client library has one main component namedDeviceUpdateClient. The component allows you to access all three main client services:

• UpdatesOperations: update management (import, enumerate, delete, etc.)
• ManagementOperations: deployment management (manage devices and deployments)

You can learn more about Device Update for IoT Hub by visitingDevice Update for IoT Hub.

Examples

You can familiarize yourself with different APIs usingSamples.

Troubleshooting

The Device Update for IoT Hub client will raise exceptions defined inAzure Core.

Next steps

Get started with ourSamples.

Contributing

If you encounter any bugs or have suggestions, please file an issue in theIssues section of the project.