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Document provisioning on modem-less devices such as nRF71 and nRF70 Series Wi-Fi devices. Cover both on-device and on-host keygen. Also document CSV format of the onboarding file.

Switch to new nRF Cloud onboarding https://docs.nrfcloud.com/docs/best-practices/device-onboarding-quickstart instead of nrf_cloud_onboard.

Part of ticket: https://nordicsemi.atlassian.net/browse/NCSDK-39436


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Updates README and ADVANCED to match current provisioning and onboarding workflows.

Onboarding: The quick-start no longer documents nrf_cloud_onboard; users are directed to the device onboarding quickstart and portal upload (Devices > Add devices). ADVANCED adds the onboard.csv row format and documents how device_credentials_installer / create_device_credentials produce that file (--csv, --append, --replace, 1000-row limit).

Modem-less devices (nRF71 / nRF70 Wi‑Fi): New Devices without a modem section covers --cmd-type (nrf_cloud_cred_shell vs tls_cred_shell), required --id-str, firmware/Kconfig notes, and example commands. README adds a matching quick-register example and links to ADVANCED.

Other doc additions: Legacy API key is scoped to scripts that still need it; cellular device ID guidance is simplified (NCS v3.4+ defaults vs older Kconfig). create_device_credentials --embed-save (and --coap) is documented with a testing-only security warning.

Heading/caption style is normalized (sentence case) across both files.

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Document CSV format of the onboarding file.

Signed-off-by: Simon Duquennoy <simon.duquennoy@nordicsemi.no>
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simonduq force-pushed the simonduq/docs-non-modem-devices branch from 1545ed3 to a433503 Compare November 4, 2026 08:12
@simonduq simonduq changed the title docs: Document modem-less provisioning docs: Document modem-less provisioning + switch to new nRF Cloud onboarding Nov 4, 2026
Document provisioning on modem-less devices such as nRF71 and nRF70
Series Wi-Fi devices. Cover both on-device and on-host keygen.

Signed-off-by: Simon Duquennoy <simon.duquennoy@nordicsemi.no>
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simonduq force-pushed the simonduq/docs-non-modem-devices branch from f97f252 to e01e01e Compare November 4, 2026 08:23
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Comments addressed @peknis thank you!

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