# Can the program be automatically updated like 'OTA'?
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-the-program-be-automatically-updated-like-ota/42219
**Category:** Project Guidance
**Created:** [June 15, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-the-program-be-automatically-updated-like-ota/42219 "2023-06-15T08:00:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@GWAK](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GWAK)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-the-program-be-automatically-updated-like-ota/42219/1 "2023-06-15T08:00:12Z")
Can the program be automatically updated like ‘OTA’?
- OTA(Over-the-air programming)
Does anyone have a good method or experience?
Like the picture, is there any way to do it? I wonder.
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### Author:  [@PerryJohnson](https://discourse.processing.org/u/PerryJohnson)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-the-program-be-automatically-updated-like-ota/42219/2 "2023-06-18T15:00:11Z")
I’m following this too, because I’m writing a program I’d like to fully update OTA. I’ve stored as much as I can in configuration files that I read into the main program. You can read/write with a variety of Java calls, and Processing has `exit()` that you can use as a hook to perform server read/local write operations on exit.
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### Author:  [@GWAK](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GWAK)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-the-program-be-automatically-updated-like-ota/42219/3 "2023-06-18T20:48:59Z")
Dear PerryJohnson / @PerryJohnson
Thank you for answer. I understand the big meaning. However, it would be of great help if there were example source codes.
thank you
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### Author:  [@PerryJohnson](https://discourse.processing.org/u/PerryJohnson)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-the-program-be-automatically-updated-like-ota/42219/4 "2023-06-18T21:55:49Z")
Sorry, I don’t have time to write code now but perhaps a forum search or someone else will chime in.
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### Author:  [@PerryJohnson](https://discourse.processing.org/u/PerryJohnson)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-the-program-be-automatically-updated-like-ota/42219/5 "2023-08-16T20:44:11Z")
Okay, I’ve coded up an update system for my app and the idea might work for you too. From my app, I zip up the sketch directory, upload the compressed file to my server via FTP. Through java code within my program, I can also download that zip and extract it to the running sketch folder. Any duplicates will be replaced by default. I’m using the built-in java.util.zip and org.apache.commons.net.ftp which you can include in your code directory.
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### Author:  [@GWAK](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GWAK)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-the-program-be-automatically-updated-like-ota/42219/6 "2023-08-16T22:05:28Z")
@PerryJohnson
Thank you for answer. have a good day.
thank you.