The OpenWrt Firmware Selector

mwarning · July 12, 2021, 10:03pm

I have not been able to reproduce this. Can you provide an concrete example? Thanks!

mwarning · July 12, 2021, 10:04pm

@aparcar is this something you can help with?

aparcar · July 13, 2021, 4:31am

I'm unsure what's the best way to handle this. Hiding them results in less testing, showing them results in more people using it in production hand having a hard time.

Pico · July 13, 2021, 9:03am

I get your point.
But it does not make sense to show the additional snapshots in the firmware selector and hide them in the downloads-page, where tech-guys hang around.

As A tech savy person I really like that those additional snapshot builds exist and I actually missed that they existed. I also think the previous and current snapshot are less dangerous to use than the upcoming snapshot (although all 3 are not meant for freshmans).

To address your concerns, once the new firmware selector is meant to go productive, I would rather recommend to simplify the regular download page on "https://openwrt.org/downloads", such that there are only 2 links left on that page, to make it easier to use for non-IT-experts:

the link to the new firmware selector with a "Download OpenWRT here" message
a link to a separate page where all the stuff of the old download page gets moved, to be renamed to "tech experts downloads" or similar. There is lots of stuff on the old download page overwhealming newbees. But the 3 snapshots would fit in very well on a tech experts download page.

aparcar · July 14, 2021, 4:12am

@jow what is your opinion here? Should we show those pre-releases?

jow · July 14, 2021, 5:40am

No, they shouldn’t be shown in a simple firmware selector.

aparcar · July 14, 2021, 7:11am

Thanks for the timely response. I'll update the version file

aparcar · July 23, 2021, 7:49pm

@mwarning do you mind modifying the collect.py script that it ignores all 'pre-releases' but SNAPSHOTS?

mwarning · July 24, 2021, 10:18am

Here ya go: https://gitlab.com/openwrt/web/firmware-selector-openwrt-org/-/merge_requests/53

MarioK239 · July 30, 2021, 11:07am

Hi! Is chef.libremesh.org 's build server down? Attended sysupgrade seems to not be working.

Nico1320 · July 30, 2021, 12:58pm

not working for me either.

MarioK239 · July 30, 2021, 4:03pm

Are there any other active attended sysupgrade servers apart from chef.libremesh.org ?

castillofrancodamian · July 30, 2021, 9:20pm

You can have your own update server.

MarioK239 · July 31, 2021, 6:49pm

How would I do that?

castillofrancodamian · July 31, 2021, 6:51pm

I think the repository is this, but I didn't test it.

dhcpme · August 1, 2021, 1:04pm

The admin/developer is aware that chef is currently down. I'm going to spin up my own using his container image.

u251 · August 2, 2021, 3:31pm

19.07.7 for Linksys WRT1900ACv2 will not compile a custom build.

Jack007 · August 3, 2021, 1:09pm

This maybe asked before but couldn't find it;
Is it possible to somehow (easily) compare the standard presented packages to the packages currently installed on your device?
Maybe some import/export functionality?

alleyu2 · August 3, 2021, 1:40pm

It's down for me

jamesmacwhite · August 3, 2021, 3:34pm

Seems that Chef was restarted a couple of days ago, but it has since gone down again by the looks of it:

curl -v https://chef.libremesh.org/
*   Trying 84.88.85.38:443...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* connect to 84.88.85.38 port 443 failed: Connection timed out
* Failed to connect to chef.libremesh.org port 443: Connection timed out
* Closing connection 0
curl: (28) Failed to connect to chef.libremesh.org port 443: Connection timed out

Edit: now seems OK.