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Expose the list of supported device types and their aliases #467

Closed emirotin closed 4 years ago

emirotin commented 7 years ago

With aliases.

And also mention that device types can have alternative names.

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pimterry commented 6 years ago

Basic support for this is already done, see resin devices supported. Closing.

lekkas commented 6 years ago

@pimterry just a heads up that the support conversation where this ticket originated from (https://app.frontapp.com/open/cnv_4c4n9h) suggested that we would look into presenting the users with any existing device type aliases as well (e.g. raspberrypi alias for raspberry-pi).

I'm not sure where we stand about aliases now, do we ignore them completely? If not, are they documented somewhere?

pimterry commented 6 years ago

Ah, interesting, I didn't notice that before. I've renamed the issue.

We do have this info in the device types (http://img.resin.io/api/v1/device-types), so we could expose it fairly easily. Right now device supported output looks like:

➜ resin devices supported                                                
SLUG                  NAME
am571x-evm            AM571X EVM (BETA)
artik10               Samsung Artik 10
artik5                Samsung Artik 5
artik710              Samsung Artik 710 (BETA)
beaglebone-black      BeagleBone Black
beaglebone-green-wifi BeagleBone Green Wireless (BETA)
beaglebone-green      BeagleBone Green (BETA)
colibri-imx6dl        Colibri iMX6dl (BETA)
cybertan-ze250        Cybertan ZE250 (ALPHA)
...

We could add an 'aliases' column, and simply put any aliases in there, comma separated. Or we could do that, but behind a flag (--aliases), to keep things simpler? I'm not really sure of the context around aliases and why they exist. @shaunmulligan what do you think?