[MVMA] If you find yourself in the field wanting to update a node's firward and are without internet access

[Tyler Gardner]

I have tried to accomplish something similar with my Raspberry Pi using a Cron job and wget to mirror the AREDN firmware site. I never really got it to behave as desired. I may try again.

Tyler Gardner
KI7ODK

> On Jul 11, 2024, at 4:05 PM, Chuck Gelm NC8Q <nc8q-aredn at gelm.net> wrote:
> 
> On 6/27/24 19:18, Chuck Gelm wrote:
>> Effective through Stable 3.24.4.0 and Nightly 20240618,
>> I have synced the downloads.arednmesh.org/firmware (and /snapshots) directory on
>> http://nc8q-server.local.mesh/aredn/
>> 
>> In the Advanced Configuration page under Firmware,
>> you can replace
>> http://downloads.arednmesh.org/
>> with
>> http://nc8q-server.local.mesh/aredn/
>> and upgrade/downgrade the firmware in your remote node.
>> 
>> 73, Chuck
> 
> Never mind.
> The documentation indicated it could be dome, but I was not able to effect this.
> 
> Still, you can download the appropriate firmware file from the server to a
> on site portable computer, then transfer the firmware to the device.
> 
>  http://nc8q-server.local.mesh/mesh/Stable/3.24.4.0/
> 
> 73, Chuck
> 
> 
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