Get informations about current firmwares from the end-users

dresden-elektronik / deconz-ota-plugin

Server side implementation of the standard Zigbee OTA protocol.

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

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Get informations about current firmwares from the end-users #17

Closed sorryusernameisalreadytaken closed 4 years ago

sorryusernameisalreadytaken commented 4 years ago

Hey there.

I thought if there will be a chance to share fimrware states across all deconz users. This could be a optional feature, not forced.

The problem in my point of view is that I do not know what is the latest OTA firmware. Some company did a great job and share ota-list in json format, for example ikea, but others like philips or aqara does not.

Why not get this data from the user itself?

Benefits from such a list could be: -warn the user if the firmware is outdated -reduce the risk of zigbee security issues -reduce incompatibility

ebaauw commented 4 years ago

deCONZ runs locally and doesn’t provide any means to upload data to a central server (apart from the automatic gateway discovery). Changing that is beyond the scope of the OTA plugin.

sorryusernameisalreadytaken commented 4 years ago

okay. any tips to find the latest fw for each zigbee device?

ebaauw commented 4 years ago

Check the device manufacturer's web site for release notes (for Hue, see: https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us/support/release-notes). That still doesn't get you the firmware files, but at least you know a newer version is available;
Check the device manufacturer's download site (see READ_ME);
Regularly run the ikea-ota-download.py script.