Finding and getting software¶
Marketplace is the storefront. Open it from the product switcher, or visit it without signing in to evaluate the catalog first.
Browse and search¶
The landing page shows every publicly listed product. Type in the search box to match on name, and use the category tabs to narrow to Firmware, Applets, or see everything. Products you have already acquired are tagged Installed once you are signed in, so you can tell a new option from something your account already owns.
Restricted offers — software a publisher has made available only to named accounts — never appear in anonymous browsing. Sign in and select the account the offer was made to, and it shows up alongside the public catalog.
Read the listing¶
A product page carries the publisher, the category, the latest version, and the description. For an applet or firmware it also carries:
Version history — every published version with its changelog, size, and checksum, so you can see what changed before you take it.
Compatibility — the architectures, minimum firmware version, and hardware constraints a version declares. Check this against your fleet before acquiring.
The offer that applies to you — the commercial terms on which this account can take the product: price, how it is licensed (free, perpetual, subscription, or approval-required), and who it is for. The listing shows the one offer in force for your account; a product’s other offers are managed on the publishing side.
Get it¶
The button on a listing always tells you where that product stands for the account you have selected:
Button |
What it means |
|---|---|
Get |
Your account does not hold this product. Pressing it starts acquisition. |
Requested |
A request is waiting for an administrator’s approval, or provisioning is still running. |
Configure |
Your account holds it. Finish setting it up. |
Open |
A web application that is configured and ready to launch. |
Retry |
Something failed while provisioning. Press it to try again. |
If you are not signed in, pressing Get hands you to sign-in or registration and brings you back to the same listing with your selection intact — the product, the version of the catalog you were looking at, and the action you started. Nothing is provisioned, charged, or licensed until you are signed in and an account is selected.
If you are signed in and your permissions cover acquiring software, the product is provisioned for your account straight away. The button moves to Requested while that runs, then to Configure.
If they do not, the press files a request instead of failing. An account administrator sees it and approves or rejects it, and you are notified of the outcome. Pressing Get again while your request is still pending returns the same request — a double-click cannot create two.
After you have it¶
An applet or firmware is software for your robots. Press Configure to finish setup, then use OTAForge to choose which robots receive it and to watch the rollout.
A web application is set up by its publisher. Configure takes you to the publisher’s own setup page; when that finishes, the button becomes Open.
What you now hold — the subscription, the license, and the seats you can assign — is covered in Subscriptions and licenses.