Publish firmware selector

[Paul Spooren]

On Tue Nov 17, 2020 at 10:45 AM HST, Aaron Z wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 4:05 AM Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > The firmware selector is a simple search form where end-users can find
> > firmware images for devices. It's based on Moritz Warnings great work,
> > featuring Petr and Richs code and comments.
> > A staging version can be found here:
> > https://firmware-selector.staging.openwrt.org/
> Can someone look at the TP-Link entries that the search is pulling from?
> Searching for anything from TP-Link returns duplicates of all the
> entries with one set being formatted (for example) as "TP-Link
> TL-WR1043N/ND v3" and the other being formatted as "TP-LINK
> TL-WR1043N/ND v3" but both point to the same file.
> I did not see this behaviour for Asus, Buffalo Cisco, or Ubiquity.

That's due to renaming TP-LINK to TP-Link after during the migration
from ar71xx to ath79. There is some logic in the collect.py script that
should attach the specific target behind the name, I'll check what's
wrong.

> I agree with @Fernando Frediani's assessment that a link to the wiki
> page for the devices would be good as would perhaps a flag to say "You
> can't just flash this image from the stock web interface, you need to
> do something special (SSH, TFTP, etc)"

I agree. Looking briefly into this I however see some issues. The device
profiles (basically a unique ID) is neither consistent in openwrt.git
nor in the Wiki. While that can be fixed over time, there is no
convenient way see if a Wiki page exists. If it's missing, no 404 is
returned but a page inviting the user to create a new page.

My idea was to use the profile (e.g. tp-link_tl-wdr4300) and check via
JavaScript if o.o/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr4300 exists. If so, show it in the
wizard, if not the missing page should end up in the access logs,
allowing a quick in both wiki/openwrt.git.

We could also create a mapping, however my motivation is to keep things
consistently named rather than introducing mappings.

Best,
Paul