[Elecraft] Feature request: Command line firmware updater

[Phil Wheeler]

But perhaps you could write your own updating 
utility, Bruce. While I have an RPi2 running 
Linux, etc. I'm very happy with the OS-dependent 
utilities we have now. Likely a command line 
utility would not be as capable and could cause 
problems if the command line was not just so.

73, Phil W7OX

On 3/27/16 5:52 PM, Bruce Nourish wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> As the subject suggests, I'd like to put in a feature request, for a
> simple, command line firmware updater tool, for all applicable Elecraft
> rigs. To update the firmware on my KX3 and PX3, I need to download and set
> up two separate programs, most of whose functionality I won't ever need.
>
> Such a tool would be easy for Elecraft to write and maintain, and would be
> easy to make work on different platforms, which brings me to the next part
> of this feature request. I'd like to be able to run this tool both on my
> Intel Linux machines, and my Raspberry Pi, which is hooked up to my KX3 and
> PX3 whenever my KX3 is home. Cross-compiling such a simple tool should also
> be pretty easy.
>
> I'm sure there are other people who're in similar situations, and would
> appreciate something to address these use cases. Firmware updates are one
> of the few things where you can't roll-your-own.