Bugzilla – Bug 641
Add ability to auto-upgrade firmware on Squeezeboxes
Last modified: 2008-12-15 13:05:58 UTC
Having to go around to my squeezeboxes and hold the brightness key down is an annoyance. I would much prefer that the firmware is auotmatically updated if necessary. This should be a user configurable option, and perhaps not allowed on wireless Squeezeboxes.
This is a security feature, to prevent accidental or malicious firmware updates from the network. I"ll leave the bug open as an enhancement, a future version might have a user specified setup option that would allow automatic network-based upgrades.
one thought occurred to me on this. given a setup with many clients, what will happen when teh server starts up and all the clients start demanding an automatic upgrade all at once?
That should be fine. Firmware updates are done in a non-blocking manner, so it may take a little extra time, but shouldn't hose anything.
Marking items that aren't going to be addressed immediately in 6.1 as future. Please update if this is in error or the bug has already been addressed.
In addition to making it completely optional, I think there should be the ability to do this from the web UI, both for upgrading the firmware and for forcing a reload of the current firmware.
This is definetely a must-have for situations where there are 6 or 7 squeezeboxes hidden away in hard to access places and the setup is controlled via the web/cli.
Is this not a fixed bug? I've had auto upgrade on my squeezeboxes for a few months now!
This bug appears to have been fixed in the latest release! If you are still experiencing this problem, feel free to reopen the bug with your new comments and we'll have another look. Make sure to include the version number of the software you are seeing the error with.