Browser flasher live — HTTPS, MQTT, TCP and UDP all listening
Blank board to live dashboard in a dash.
Plug an ESP32 into USB and click Flash — a ready-made client goes on with your Wi-Fi and a claim code, and the board comes up on your dashboard already yours, already posting. That is the fastest demo, not a requirement: bring any MCU, any language, any toolchain. A device here is anything that can send a packet.
No credit card. No certificate authority. No IAM policy. No sales call.
Your Wi-Fi password travels down the USB cable and stops at the board. It is never sent to Warble, and neither is any firmware you pick off your own disk.
sunny-otter-7c2f
arrived via claim code · 12 seconds ago
- temp_c
- 21.4
- hum_pct
- 48
- volts
- 3.91
Named fields, not hex — a decoder you can write in the browser turned two raw bytes into 21.4 °C.
“At L0, your idea lives or dies faster than anyone could bother to hack it.”
That is not bravado, it is attack economics. An attacker needs discovery, motive and time; a days-old prototype with an unguessable id and worthless data offers none of the three. Level 0 exists so the distance between a hunch and a chart is minutes — and so the experiment is concluded before it was ever worth attacking.
Level 0 is one line of firmware
POST https://https.chirpiot.com/ingest/sunny-otter-7c2fNo token, no certificate, no clock sync, no TLS stack eating your MCU’s RAM. When the project stops being an experiment, you turn the dial — and the flasher writes the new tokens to your fleet over USB.
Read the Level 0 threat model →The flasher
Four steps, one browser tab, zero installs.
Every other path from a blank chip to a cloud dashboard runs through a toolchain, a driver hunt, a serial terminal and a provisioning ceremony. This one runs through a page you already have open: plug an ESP32 into USB and go from blank chip to live data without installing anything.
MicroPython is what the one-click demo writes — it is the fastest way to see the platform move, nothing more. The same page provisions firmware you wrote yourself in any language, flashes any binary you bring, and the platform never knows or cares what your device runs.
- 1
Plug the board in
Any ESP32, ESP32-S3 or ESP32-C3 on a USB cable. The browser asks which port to use — that is the only permission dialog in the whole process, and the only thing you have to click before flashing.
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Fill in three fields
Wi-Fi network, Wi-Fi password, claim code. Signed in, the page generates the claim code for you and suggests an id like
sunny-otter-7c2f. Signed out, paste a code you already have. - 3
Click Flash
The page reads which chip you actually plugged in, erases it, and writes official MicroPython at the right offset for that part. Then it pushes the Warble client —
config.jsonandmain.py— over the raw REPL. - 4
Watch it land
The board reboots, joins your Wi-Fi, and its first packet carries the claim code. It appears on your dashboard already bound to your account, already charting. No claim step, no inbox to search, no race with a stranger.
Needs Web Serial: desktop Chrome, Edge, Brave or Opera. No account needed to flash your own binary or use the monitor. Landing on a dashboard needs a free account — one click, right here.
Provision your own firmware
Already have firmware you like? Implement four line exchanges — CHIRP-PROV v1.5, published in full — and this page writes Wi-Fi credentials and a claim code into your board over the same cable. It is a documented protocol, not a private handshake.
Read the CHIRP-PROV spec →Flash any .bin you bring
Point it at a build off your own disk: ESP32 over serial at the offset you pick, STM32 over USB DFU at an absolute address. The file is read by the page and written to the chip; there is no upload endpoint for it to travel to.
A serial monitor that costs nothing
Watch a board’s console output in the browser, free, signed in or not. If all you wanted today was to see why your firmware is quiet, that alone is worth the tab.
How it works
Bytes in, named fields out, decisions on top.
One sensor on the porch or fifty in the field — the path is the same, and you can watch every hop of it.
- 01
Send
Your board pushes raw bytes over HTTPS, MQTT, TCP or UDP at whatever security level that device deserves today.
- 02
Decode
A decoder you write turns those bytes into named fields. Python-shaped, sandboxed, and testable against a real sample in the browser.
- 03
Store
Fields land in a live state store and in history. The live tail streams them to your screen the moment they arrive.
- 04
Act
Routines read the state of every device on your account and act: command a device, post a webhook, raise an alert.
It arrives already yours
Generate a claim code, put it in the device, and its very first packet binds it to your account. There is no public sighting to race for, no id to enumerate, no window where a stranger can claim your board. The portal even suggests the id — sunny-otter-7c2f, not a MAC address whose vendor prefix is public.
Decoders you can actually read
Raw bytes in, named fields out, in Python-shaped code with a real test button. Paste a sample payload, hit test, see the fields. Bring your own Anthropic key and Claude will draft the decoder from that sample and a plain-English description of your packet — then you test it and save it, or you do not.
A serial monitor for the cloud
The live tail streams every message as it lands: hex, ASCII, decoded fields, timestamps, decode errors. It is the thing you actually want at 1am when the board is on the roof and the numbers look wrong.
See the whole pipeline
A flow graph of your devices, specs, decoders and routines — what feeds what, and where a message stopped. Configuration you can look at instead of configuration you have to remember.
Talk back to the device
Downlink is not an upsell. Queue a payload for a device over HTTP, MQTT or TCP, from the portal or from inside a routine, and it collects it on its next contact.
Encryption you switch on when ready
Enforce TLS is a per-device flag, armable at any level, and the platform never claims a confidentiality it isn't enforcing. Point the fleet at the TLS endpoint, watch exactly what lands while your firmware settles, then flip it — from that moment plaintext is rejected at the door, with no key to distribute. And a device's signing key rides to it in the browser's own session storage, never through a URL.
Block a sender from a script
Decide you are being spammed and call block() from your own decoder or routine. The offending source is dropped at the front door, before it costs you anything. It blocks the sender, never the hardware id — blocking an id would let a spoofer lock out your real board.
Cross-device routines
If inside temp > outside temp, turn the fan on.
Three devices, one decision, no glue script on a Raspberry Pi under the desk. This is the sentence a smart speaker cannot say and a single-device dashboard cannot express: a reading from one board deciding what a different board does. On Warble it is a routine you write once and forget.
def routine(event, state, mem):
inside = state.get("porch-sensor", "temp_c")
outside = state.get("yard-sensor", "temp_c")
if inside == None or outside == None: return
if state.age_s("yard-sensor", "temp_c") > 600: return # stale sensor: do nothing
on = mem.get("fan_on", False)
if not on and inside > outside + 1.0:
send("fan-controller", "fan:on"); mem["fan_on"] = True
elif on and inside < outside - 1.0:
send("fan-controller", "fan:off"); mem["fan_on"] = FalseThat is the whole routine. Dry-run it against your real device state in the browser before you enable it — no actions fire during a test.
- Any field, any device
- state.get(device, field) reaches the latest decoded value of every device on your account — not just the one that sent the message being processed.
- Act on anything else
- send() queues a downlink to a different device, webhook() posts JSON wherever you want, alert() lands in the portal and can email you.
- Hysteresis is built in
- mem is a dict that persists between evaluations, which is how the fan stops chattering at the threshold. A per-routine minimum interval debounces the rest.
- Stale data is a first-class concern
- state.age_s() tells you how old a reading is, so a routine can decline to act on a sensor that went quiet instead of acting on a stale number.
Routines run on decoded fields, so they read temp_c, not byte 3 of a packet. Decoders are Python-shaped and testable in the browser — write one yourself, or have Claude draft it from a sample payload using your own Anthropic key. Start free and write one.
Security levels
Security as a dial, not a gate.
Every other IoT cloud asks the security question once and accepts one answer: certificates, IAM policies, a provisioning ceremony — enterprise armor, mandatory, for a soil-moisture sensor on a windowsill. Warble asks it per device, every day: how much does this one deserve? Moving up a level never re-architects anything — your dashboards, decoders and routines do not change at all.
id + payload
Prove the idea naked. One POST, no token, no clock, no TLS stack. For bench experiments and for gear you cannot modify.
Who can still attack you: Anyone who learns the id can send as your device, and can replay a payload.
Read the L0 threat model →+ a device token
The default, and the right answer for anything that stays plugged in when you stop watching. One stored token, sent with every packet.
Who can still attack you: Only someone who can capture your traffic in flight. Off-path attackers are done.
Read the L1 threat model →+ an HMAC of each payload
Integrity without a TLS stack on the MCU. Same meaning on HTTP, MQTT, TCP and UDP — every transport verifies the same way.
Who can still attack you: An on-path observer can still read your data, but cannot alter or forge a single byte.
Read the L2 threat model →a flag, at any level
Confidentiality is its own axis: switch it on per device and the endpoint refuses plaintext at the door — at L0 as readily as at L2, with no key to distribute. Off by default, and while it is off the platform says so rather than claiming an encryption it isn’t enforcing.
What it does not do: say who is allowed to send. An unreadable message from the wrong sender is still the wrong sender — that is what the levels are for. And it needs a transport that can carry TLS: HTTPS is the only one that does today.
How enforcement works →For your own firmware
Four transports, five real hostnames, no SDK.
Raw TCP and raw UDP are documented, supported, first-class choices here — not a legacy footnote you get warned away from. Speak whatever your board already speaks, from whatever language you already write, with no vendor library in the build.
HTTPS
POST raw bytes to a URL
https.chirpiot.com
HTTP
the same URL, port 80, no TLS
http.chirpiot.com:80
MQTT
publish and subscribe, embedded broker
mqtt.chirpiot.com:1883
TCP
one line per message, downlink included
tcp.chirpiot.com:7700
UDP
fire-and-forget datagrams
udp.chirpiot.com:7701
HTTPS — the whole thing, in one line
curl -X POST https://https.chirpiot.com/ingest/sunny-otter-7c2f --data-binary "hello from my board"202 accepted. Add X-Chirp-Claim: CHIRP-… and it arrives already bound to your account.
Send raw bytes instead (bash only)
curl -X POST https://https.chirpiot.com/ingest/sunny-otter-7c2f --data-binary $'\x00\xd6'0x00 0xD6 is what the example decoder turns into 21.4 °C. The $'…' quoting is bash-only — PowerShell and cmd need the text payload above.
MQTT
host mqtt.chirpiot.com:1883
username sunny-otter-7c2f
password <device token> # or your claim code, first contact only
publish chirp/sunny-otter-7c2f/up ← raw bytes, no envelope
subscribe chirp/sunny-otter-7c2f/down ← downlink, if you want itRaw TCP
$ nc tcp.chirpiot.com 7700
CHIRP1 sunny-otter-7c2f <device token> ← hello line, once
hello from my board ← one line, one message
b64:ANY= ← binary payloads, base64
down:SGkh ← what the server pushes backRaw UDP
→ udp.chirpiot.com:7701
CHIRP1 sunny-otter-7c2f <token> <raw payload bytes>
# L2: token field becomes <token>:<hex hmac of payload>
# No downlink over UDP. That is a limitation, not an oversight.Signed messages without a TLS stack
At L2 the device prefixes or attaches an HMAC of the payload and the platform verifies it before anything else happens. Same meaning on all four transports. An MCU that could never afford TLS still gets messages nobody can forge or alter — and if you would rather do it in user space, your decoder has crypto.hmac_sha256 and your spec secret, so a forged packet never becomes a decoded field.
Provision it over USB from the browser
CHIRP-PROV v1.5 is four line exchanges on your existing console UART at 115200: the portal probes, your firmware announces, the portal pushes one line of JSON with Wi-Fi and credentials, your firmware answers ok. Implement it once and you can re-provision a whole batch of boards from a laptop with no toolchain on it.
CHIRP-PROV v1.5 spec, with MicroPython and Arduino reference code →Pricing
One axis: how many devices you have plugged in.
No seats. No feature tiers holding the good parts hostage — the flasher, cross-device routines, decoders, downlink, all four transports and every security level are in the free tier today. If you ever go over a limit we throttle you and tell you. We do not quietly bill you.
Free
Available now$0up to 10 devices
The whole platform, ten devices, no credit card. Enough for a house, a greenhouse, a prototype fleet, or the first version of a product.
- ✓Browser flasher and serial monitor
- ✓HTTPS, MQTT, TCP and UDP
- ✓Security levels 0 through 2, plus Enforce TLS
- ✓Decoders, live tail and flow graph
- ✓Cross-device routines and downlink
Creator
Comingper device / month
For the project that grew past ten boards. You pay for what is actually plugged in, and nothing else changes.
- ·Devices beyond the free ten
- ·Retention you choose
- ·Same features, more room
Business
Comingvolume, per device
Shipping units with your name on them. Claim codes by the batch, provisioning for a production line, and a number we size with you.
- ·Volume device pricing
- ·Claim codes for your customers
- ·Hosted firmware for your fleet
Creator and Business are not open yet and nothing is charged today. Start on the free tier — when the paid tiers land, your devices, decoders and routines carry straight over.
Serious infrastructure. Friendly on-ramp.
The big IoT clouds are not wrong about security — they are wrong about when to charge you for it. They demand the armor before the idea has earned it, and the idea dies in the console. Warble runs the same transports, the same HMAC, the same TLS, and lets you turn them on the day your project deserves them.
What you never have to do here, at any level:
- A certificate authority, and a per-device certificate to mint and rotate
- An IAM policy document deciding whether your sensor may speak
- A device provisioning ceremony before the first byte moves
- A vendor SDK in your firmware build, and its opinion about your RTOS
- A toolchain, a driver hunt and a serial terminal, just to flash a chip
Go plug something in.
A blank ESP32, a USB cable and this tab. That is the whole shopping list.