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MB Deploy

Build micro:bit firmware and flash it to one board or a whole fleet, over USB or across the LAN.

• Command reference — Every subcommand and flag, the exit-code contract, and the stdout/stderr split.
• Deploying the daemon — Installing mbdeploy serve as a systemd service on a node with boards attached — and where the actual machines are documented.
• The device model — Two chips and two identities, what the registry stores, and how a target string is resolved.
• Building and flashing — What deploy actually runs, how a locked nRF is recovered automatically, and why pyOCD's output is streamed.
• The fleet daemon — serve, its two mDNS services, both wire protocols verbatim, and the exclusivity rules between them.
• Overview and installation — What mbdeploy solves, what it depends on, and how to install it on macOS and Linux.
• The remote client — --remote on list, connect, and deploy — how a board is found on the LAN, and which flags stop meaning anything.
• Start here — What mbdeploy is, where the machines are documented, and what is still missing.
• Troubleshooting — The failures that look like bugs and are not, and the ones that are.

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