Tools Archives - The Golioth Developer Blog https://blog.golioth.io/category/firmware/tools/ Golioth, Zephyr, and IoT Development News and How Tos Thu, 28 May 2026 19:16:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.golioth.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cropped-Golioth_Symbol_Coral_RGB-1-32x32.png Tools Archives - The Golioth Developer Blog https://blog.golioth.io/category/firmware/tools/ 32 32 Local Shell talks SMP to your devices over Web Serial https://blog.golioth.io/local-shell-talks-smp-to-your-devices-over-web-serial/ Thu, 28 May 2026 19:01:20 +0000 https://blog.golioth.io/?p=10610 Local Shell is a new web-based tool that talks to Zephyr devices using Simple Management Protocol (SMP) over Web Serial APIs. This is an easy way to communicate with devices and mirrors capabilities from tools like mcumgr and smpmgr.

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]]> When Rapid Prototyping becomes Rapid Deployment https://blog.golioth.io/when-rapid-prototyping-becomes-rapid-deployment/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:20:57 +0000 https://blog.golioth.io/?p=10460 Modern IoT teams can move beyond rapid prototyping to rapid deployment. By combining LLM-assisted development with Golioth’s device management, connectivity, and fleet orchestration capabilities, it’s now possible to create IoT fleets with a range of connectivity options in days instead of months.

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]]> A Remote Shell for Embedded IoT Devices https://blog.golioth.io/a-remote-shell-for-embedded-iot-devices/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:29:01 +0000 https://blog.golioth.io/?p=9702 Golioth's Remote Shell uses Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) and a custom Zephyr shell backend to enable an interactive, web-based shell experience from anywhere in the world.

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]]> How to Sniff Cellular Packets with a Nordic nRF91 https://blog.golioth.io/how-to-sniff-cellular-packets-with-a-nordic-nrf91/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:01:10 +0000 https://blog.golioth.io/?p=9448 Sniffing network packets from a cellular modem is actually pretty easy. It only seems daunting because at first glance you're left wondering how to acquire the packets. Nordic's nRF91 modems have a trace capability that can be used to pipe packets from the device into Wireshark over a USB connection. Here's how to use it.

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]]> How we use Allure Report to understand Continuous Integration Tests https://blog.golioth.io/how-we-use-allure-report-to-understand-continuous-integration-tests/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:47:14 +0000 https://blog.golioth.io/?p=8339 Allure Report is an open source tool to better understand testing outcomes. Golioth runs over 500 Hardware in the Loop tests for each pull request. Here's how we use Allure Report to make sense of it all.

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]]> USB with Docker on Windows and macOS Now Possible: What You Need to Know https://blog.golioth.io/usb-docker-windows-macos/ https://blog.golioth.io/usb-docker-windows-macos/#comments Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:07:48 +0000 https://blog.golioth.io/?p=8360 Hardware developers have missed out on the benefits of Docker and similar localized container solutions for one big reason: USB. Today we're seeing how devices can start to reliably connect from the host system to the container.

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]]> https://blog.golioth.io/usb-docker-windows-macos/feed/ 2 Automated hardware testing using pytest https://blog.golioth.io/automated-hardware-testing-using-pytest/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:58:29 +0000 https://goliothblogdev.wpenginepowered.com/?p=6721 Pytest is a framework for testing and we use it for our Firmware SDK. This post reviews setting up fixtures that connect embedded projects to pytest.

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]]> USB support in WSL2 – now with a GUI! https://blog.golioth.io/usb-support-in-wsl2-now-with-a-gui/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:22:14 +0000 https://goliothblogdev.wpenginepowered.com/?p=6141 Almost two years ago I wrote a guide on how to interface with USB devices from WSL2 because many of our users were developing on Windows but wanted to use Linux-native tools for projects like Zephyr. I’ve heard from countless devs thanking me for the guide but with one wish – a Graphical User Interface […]

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]]> Automatically Detecting Boards for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Testing https://blog.golioth.io/automatically-detecting-boards-for-hardware-in-the-loop-hil-testing/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:44:22 +0000 https://goliothblogdev.wpenginepowered.com/?p=5517 Golioth is an IoT company that supports as much custom hardware as possible: a multitude of microcontrollers and many different connection types. This presents a challenge when testing on real hardware. We developed tooling that tests the Golioth Firmware SDK on actual boards. Known as Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing, it’s an important part of our CI […]

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]]> Measuring Current Consumption with Power Profiler Kit II https://blog.golioth.io/measuring-current-consumption-with-power-profiler-kit-ii/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:59:33 +0000 https://goliothblogdev.wpenginepowered.com/?p=5469 IoT devices are usually battery-operated and, more often than not, need to run on a single battery charge for multiple years. Before we know it, MCU power consumption becomes a huge deal when developing a product. Measuring power consumption of an MCU can be challenging since it does not depend on just one thing. It […]

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