Beta [cfupdater] Custom Firmware Updater

[prpr]

Huh? Did you actually read the last six messages?

 

[Black Hole]

Sure. It struck me that Owen was missing the point.

 

[Owen Smith]

Don't you realise there is now a WebIF method to download and then update the CF in Flash? So much easier...

I don't find any difficulty using a USB stick. Also my aunt's HDR Fox T2 has no regular internet connection, I use my iPad Pro as a hot spot to update the packages on her box. But even with a wifi to ethernet device it's a bit temperamental so for the CF I'd rather just use USB stick.

 

[/df]

I think it comes from the attempt to display "WiFi" on the seven segment display. The 'W' appears as three horizontal bars.

There seems to be a some issue with cfupdater in maintensnce mode on an HD. ...

Exactly. /etc/init.d/S89maintenance forces Wi-Fi on if it detects a supported device (iwgetid, ~l.130) but apparently in some cases (hidden SSID?) /sbin/wifi-up then hangs when the expected connection doesn't materialise. Basically, it's the problem of Sheldon Cooper's friendship algorithm and even comedy writers can fix that with a loop counter and an exit to the least disagreeable outcome. For updating the CF the network connection is just nice to have (if the AYS prompt would default to Yes) but in other cases it could be essential. In the normal case /sbin/wifi-up is run in the background by /mod/etc/init.d/S00wlan so it can loop forever with little impact. But it's run in maintenance mode startup in the main line of processing. I suggest that it would never be useful for maintenance mode startup to hang at wi-fi connection: there should be a timeout and on expiry either proceed with logged/panel warning when a connection isn't essential, or fail otherwise. So that's for 3.15 ...

... Running it in "fast mode" worked for me from the command line...

cfupdater -f /mod/firmware/auto/hd_10302_mod314.zip

Likewise. The telnet connection went down, the panel showed Pnnn for (I suppose) each nnn'th block and then rbt. Then in WebIf home:

Custom Firmware Version: 3.14 (build 1757805000)

A nice tweak would be muting the sound that goes with the frozen picture during the update. IIRC it's done elsewhere.