Publish firmware selector

Moritz Warning moritzwarning at web.de
Wed Nov 18 02:55:05 EST 2020


On 11/17/20 9:45 PM, 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.

This device and others exist twice. One for the ar7xx target and one for ath79 (while the old one is phased out).
We can either attach the target in brackets behind the name or just do not show one of them.

> I did not see this behaviour for Asus, Buffalo Cisco, or Ubiquity.
>
> Re @Thomas Endt's questions on the need for this, IMO it's much more
> responsive than the TOH (which frequently causes the browser tab to
> lock up).
> 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)"It is easy to show a link if we can construct it automatically.

Are link to the TOH always like: https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/<vendor_id>/<device_id> ?

>
> Aaron Z
>




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