[SkyHub] Updating Pi-Star software

[Jack Roland]

It is very important that we update our pi-star software frequently as with other updates that are needed in todays world.

This website has a lot of good instructions on how to update the pi-star software in the proper and best manner.

https://amateurradionotes.com/pi-star-updates.htm

It is recommended that you check this regularly for best operation and this website has great easy to follow information.

See this main section:
*         Via SSH Command Line Interface (CLI) - You also can run an update at any time via a Secure Shell (SSH[Open in new tab regular]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell>) app like Termius[Open in new tab regular]<https://www.termius.com/> or PuTTY[Open in new tab regular]<https://www.putty.org/> (ADDED NOTE HERE):  in the pi-star web interface you can click on EXPERT, then SSH ACCESS, and it will bring up a command prompt window. This is the most robust way to run an update as it updates the radio binaries, gateways, hostfiles, and dashboard, as well as the Raspberry Pi OS operating system updates, including giving you the chance to take care of those steps of Raspberry Pi OS updates that require manual input.
1.     Use an app to SSH into Pi-Star and log in.
2.     Run the update (the update process automatically switches Pi-Star to Read-Write mode, so there's no need to switch manually):
sudo pistar-update
3.     Important! If the process pauses and asks whether a modified file should be replaced, your answer should always be the default, which is to leave the modified file alone.
4.     Allow the update process to run until you see:
Updates complete, sleeping for a few seconds before making the disk Read-Only
Finished
5.     After a manual update, it's a good idea to open the Configuration page and click Apply Changes.
6.     EXTRA ADDED NOTE:  A power recycle of the pi-star is also recommended at this point of finish.
Happy Pi-Star updating!
73'
Jack



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/skyhub/attachments/20230118/ec3557ad/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.gif
Type: image/gif
Size: 1186 bytes
Desc: image001.gif
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/skyhub/attachments/20230118/ec3557ad/attachment.gif>