diff --git a/docs/manual/markdown/.gitignore b/docs/manual/markdown/.gitignore
index 1320f90e5..4df92f157 100644
--- a/docs/manual/markdown/.gitignore
+++ b/docs/manual/markdown/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+btstack
 site
diff --git a/docs/manual/markdown/mkdocs.yml b/docs/manual/markdown/mkdocs.yml
index 480e2a46a..4c82f54d2 100644
--- a/docs/manual/markdown/mkdocs.yml
+++ b/docs/manual/markdown/mkdocs.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 site_name: BTstack Manual
+site_dir: btstack
 pages:
 - [index.md, Welcome]
 - [quick_start.md, Quick Start]
diff --git a/docs/manual/markdown/upload_site_sftp.sh b/docs/manual/markdown/upload_site_sftp.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1ebdc1cf6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/manual/markdown/upload_site_sftp.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+USAGE="Usage: upload_site_sftp.sh host path user"
+
+# command line checks, bash
+if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
+        echo ${USAGE}
+        exit 0
+fi
+host=$1
+path=$2
+user=$3
+
+echo Uploading generated docs to ${host}/${path}/btstack with user ${user}
+
+# SFTP is very peculiar: recursive put only works for a single directory
+sftp ${user}@${host} << EOF
+  mkdir ${path}/btstack
+  put -r btstack ${path}
+  quit
+EOF