Azure Device Update for IoT Hub client library for Python

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 to https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/issues/20691

Getting started

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Azure Subscription: To call Microsoft Azure services, you need to create an Azure 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 with pip:

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 named DeviceUpdateClient. 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 visiting Device Update for IoT Hub.

Examples

You can familiarize yourself with different APIs using Samples.

Troubleshooting

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

Next steps

Get started with our Samples.

Contributing

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

Release History

1.1.0 (2026-08-05)

Features Added

• Regenerated the client library from the TypeSpec specification for the Device Update for IoT Hub 2026-06-01 GA API version.
• Added support for configuring TLS-secured update payload downloads through the downloadSecurity property when creating or updating a deployment.

1.0.0 (2022-09-09)

Features Added

• Added filter to DeviceManagementOperations.list_device_classes method
• Updated description for some methods to be more descriptive and less ambiguous

Breaking Changes

• Removed filter from DeviceManagementOperations.list_best_updates_for_group method

1.0.0b3 (2022-07-07)

Features Added

• Added relatedFiles and downloadHandler to Update
• Updated various model that reference update to include not only updateId but also update description and friendlyName
• Removed device tag concept
• Allow to filter by deployment status in the list_devices method
• Added ability to update device class friendly name
• Added ability to delete device class
• Added device class subgroups to groups
• Added new method to retrieve devices health information

1.0.0b2 (2022-01-25)

Features Added

• Added DeviceManagementOperations
• Added DeviceUpdateOperations
• Added operation send_request to send customized http request conveniently
• Added client.device_management

Breaking Changes

• Removed all models
• Removed DeploymentsOperations
• Removed UpdateOperations
• Dropped support for Python2.7(https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python#disclaimer)
• Parameter account_endpoint of DeviceUpdateClient is renamed to endpoint
• Renamed client.updates to client.device_update
• Removed client.devices
• Removed client.deployments
• Renamed UpdatesOperations.get_update to DeviceUpdateOperations.get_update
• Renamed UpdatesOperations.delete_update to DeviceUpdateOperations.begin_delete_update
• Renamed UpdatesOperations.get_providers to DeviceUpdateOperations.list_providers
• Renamed UpdatesOperations.get_names to DeviceUpdateOperations.list_names
• Renamed UpdatesOperations.get_versions to DeviceUpdateOperations.list_versions
• Renamed UpdatesOperations.get_file to DeviceUpdateOperations.get_file
• Renamed UpdatesOperations.get_files to DeviceUpdateOperations.list_files
• Renamed UpdatesOperations.get_operation to DeviceUpdateOperations.get_operation
• Renamed UpdatesOperations.get_operations to DeviceUpdateOperations.list_operations
• Renamed DevicesOperations.get_all_device_classes to DeviceManagementOperations.list_device_classes
• Renamed DevicesOperations.get_device_class to DeviceManagementOperations.get_device_class
• Renamed DevicesOperations.get_device_class_device_ids to DeviceManagementOperations.
• Renamed DevicesOperations.list_devices to DeviceManagementOperations.list_devices
• Renamed DevicesOperations.list_devices to DeviceManagementOperations.
• Renamed DevicesOperations.get_all_device_tags to DeviceManagementOperations.list_device_tags
• Renamed DevicesOperations.get_all_groups to DeviceManagementOperations.list_groups
• Renamed DevicesOperations.get_group to DeviceManagementOperations.get_group
• Renamed DevicesOperations.create_or_update_group to DeviceManagementOperations.create_or_update_group
• Renamed DevicesOperations.delete_group to DeviceManagementOperations.delete_group
• Renamed DevicesOperations.get_group_update_compliance to DeviceManagementOperations.get_group_update_compliance
• Renamed DevicesOperations.get_group_best_updates to DeviceManagementOperations.list_best_updates_for_group
• Renamed DeploymentsOperations.get_deployment_status to DeviceManagementOperations.get_deployment_status
• Renamed DeploymentsOperations.create_or_update_deployment to DeviceManagementOperations.create_or_update_deployment
• Renamed DeploymentsOperations.delete_deployment to DeviceManagementOperations.delete_deployment
• Renamed DeploymentsOperations.get_deployment_devices to DeviceManagementOperations.list_deployment_devices

1.0.0b1 (2021-03-03)

• This is the initial release of Azure Device Update for IoT Hub library.