OTA firmware update for Photons not working about spark-server

[tslater]

+1
It looks like these are working for the spark...
#25

[chuank]

If you're referring to the Cores, yes OTAs are working fine. But not for the Photons.

[tslater]

That has been my experience. It says success but then the code isn't flashed. I wonder if anyone here can hint on what might need to be done. I'd like to work on it if there isn't already something in progress.

[UnidentifiedContributor]

I believe this is due to the difference in the way system firmware and user apps are saved on the devices themselves. @tslater if you were up for the task of working on this, I will be more than happy to help facilitate you in any way I can. Feel free to ping me if you have specific questions!

[tslater]

If I have time, I'm definitely wanting to poke around. I remember seeing
some of the code on the server for the flash, I haven't looked around much
on the firmware repo yet so any direction on how the files are stored or
how everything works would be great to get a head start.
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On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Emily Rose [email protected]
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I believe this is due to the difference in the way system firmware and
user apps are saved on the devices themselves. @tslater
https://github.com/tslater if you were up for the task of working on
this, I will be more than happy to help facilitate you in any way I can.
Feel free to ping me if you have specific questions!

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#54 (comment).

[javier-rodas]

Hi @emilyrose and @kennethlimcp It seems that this OTA firmware upgrade BUG with the Photon doesn't have much priority for you, as we reported it and requested a solution back in 12-th July, or even earlier by @kennethlimcp 😢 . #45

For me, and imagine that for many others, this BUG is quite critical and make the local spark-server nearly unusable nowadays with the Photon, don't you agree?.

So what I could only do is to offer me for collaboration and try to fix it. I will be available for testing it deeply with the Photon starting from the next week, and from the latest "stable" 0.4.4 Photon firmware starting point, recently released, if you agree.

Could I expect some collaboration from your side to try to fix it with my (and others) testings?.

Thanks in advance for your support.

[tslater]

I agree with you @javier-rodas . I know they're busy with the electron and such, but I hope the open-sourceness spirit stays alive. Any word on this? I've been patiently waiting too! It seems like development on the local cloud is very, very dead. Can we at least get an idea of what the situation is?

[kennethlimcp]

I'm sure this will be worked on but definitely not a high priority with so many other stuff on going. Local ☁️ was announced for the Spark core during kickstarter and that setup is working.

@zsup might be able to give a high level overview here

[chuank]

@kennethlimcp, this issue is about the non-availability of OTAs for Photons on spark-server.

I think everyone here is aware that OTAs work on Cores, which is fine – but with Particle stopping production on Cores and moving to Photons, I agree with @tslater and @javier-rodas that there should be at least some attention on spark-server to fix the bugs – #54, #55 and to a lesser extent #53 and #56.

On the bright side, @emilyrose did mention in this discussion thread that work might be done on spark-server soon.

An official response with the likes of "Yes, we'll definitely get this out by Christmas", or a clear "No, we do not intend to support spark-server forever" will be good.

This will help those of us evaluating solutions to either wait for better local cloud support, or start crunching and pooling our resources right now to explore alternatives.

p.s. I too will be happy to participate in testing!

[dmiddlecamp]

Hi all!

Sorry about the lack of feedback on this issue! It's definitely a priority, and I'll / we'll take a stab at testing and porting this next week. :)

Thanks
David

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On Sep 3, 2015, at 8:27 PM, Chuan Khoo [email protected] wrote:

@kennethlimcp, this issue is about the non-availability of OTAs for Photons on spark-server.

I think everyone here is aware that OTAs work on Cores, which is fine – but with Particle stopping production on Cores and moving to Photons, I agree with @tslater and @javier-rodas that there should be at least some attention on spark-server to fix the bugs – #54, #55 and to a lesser extent #53 and #56.

On the bright side, @emilyrose did mention in this discussion thread that work might be done on spark-server soon.

An official response with the likes of "Yes, we'll definitely get this out by Christmas", or a clear "No, we do not intend to support spark-server forever" will be good.

This will help those of us evaluating solutions to either wait for better local cloud support, or start crunching and pooling our resources right now to explore alternatives.

p.s. I too will be happy to participate in testing!

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[tslater]

@dmiddlecamp That's awesome. I really appreciate that.

[dmiddlecamp]

Fixed with new release 0.1.6, sorry about the delay on this one!

[javier-rodas]

@dmiddlecamp Thank you very much for the quick response since your last comment, 6 days ago!!... but where can we find that 0.1.6 release? I do not see any new commits or releases for this project https://github.com/spark/spark-server

[dmiddlecamp]

Hi @javier-rodas,

Good question, the update is in the spark-protocol project, try deleting that module and reinstalling:

# something like... 
cd local-server/js
rm -rf node_modules/spark-protocol
npm install

# there is probably a more fancy syntax (but the above method is easier to confirm :) )
npm update / upgrade

[chuank]

@dmiddlecamp Thanks for this update. Tested OTA and it's working. npm update works re:updating of the spark-protocol files. the older spark-protocol folder must be deleted and reinstalled again using npm install in order to work.