emonSD first boot

[glyn.hudson]

@Greebo

I’ve wondered this since I got my EmonBase and read about all of the confusion between the two “Update” buttons on the admin web page… Is there not a way to determine if the hardware is an EmonBase or an EmonPi (or neither) and do “the right thing” for each?

If there’s no software way to tell, perhaps a circuit modification could enable the detection? Something like a GPIO check for connection to ground on a specific pin that is different for the different add-on boards?

The only way to detect would be to test the different baud rates.

However, updating the RFM69Pi firmware is unlikely to be needed, there has been any changes to the RFM60Pi firmware since 2016: Release V1.3.0 · openenergymonitor/RFM2Pi · GitHub. Therefore, as an emonBase user is doesn’t really matter if you run emonPi update instead of emonBase update since there is no new FW updates.

I agree, it would be good to make the microcontroller FW update a separate process from the emoncms update