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Home automation firmware for ESP8266-based devices
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Restore backup to a newly flashed device #1931

Open cconde opened 5 years ago

cconde commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. After messing with firmware I tend to have to restore a backup. In order to restore a backup I have first to reset the default password and then go to "Admin" to restore the backup.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be superb to have a "Set password & restore config" button at that very first page.

Describe alternatives you've considered I don't know if it's possible, it would be totally awesome if the restore would also restore the original password.

Additional context I keep in mind this may only be useful to few people.

Thanks for this great work!

mcspr commented 4 years ago

On a sort-of related note, the starting page could use WiFi setup as well.

You can also skip WebUI completely, see: https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna/wiki/Configuration#direct-http-settings-api This will overwrite configuration using the current password

Tofandel commented 4 years ago

Was thinking about improving the first step as well for the UI, it's a tad annoying

Isn't the password stored in the config backup?

Cause then you can just have a first step like: Restore backup or set Password and Wifi

And then connect to the device via local network instead of the usual Change password => reconnect => setWifi => reconnect again

Tofandel commented 4 years ago

Also it's possible to skip the change password step by setting the build flag WEB_FORCE_PASS_CHANGE to 0

sfilinto commented 4 years ago

i reset my devices sometimes so in order to bring them to a desired state very quickly i have made 2 .JSON files which have the desired configuration items. i run the below command to configure the device curl -F "file=@1.json" -u admin:fibonacci http://192.168.4.1/config and it take a couple of seconds. 1st JSON file changes the default password & adds my wifi ssid & password. login with a browser and reboot the device. 2nd JSON file has all the desired configuration and hostname. again i login and reboot the device.

entire procedure take under 5 minutes to bring a device to a desired state & also avoids spelling mistakes. HTH.

Tofandel commented 4 years ago

@sfilinto if you want there is a trick to do that in one step even faster, use jq to merge your two json files, send the output via curl and tadam done should take less than 20 seconds jq -s '.[0] * .[1]' 1.json 2.json | curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @- -u admin:fibonacci http://192.168.4.1/config