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 7. That's it!
 
+Once the OTA server URL is configured, Custota will automatically check for updates periodically. The checks can be turned off completely or extended to automatically install the updates as well.
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+To reduce battery usage, the scheduling of the update checks is controlled by Android. They run at most once every 6 hours and will not run at all if the `Require unmetered network` or `Require sufficient battery level` conditions aren't met.
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 ## OTA server
 
 Custota only requires a basic webserver capable of serving static files and supporting the HTTP `Range` header. Any standard webserver, like Apache, Nginx, or Caddy, will do the trick. For testing, Caddy is very useful because it can serve files from a directory without setting up any config files: