Ha, good thought! Put a text file in the root directory named "factoryreset.txt" containing "OVMSv3" as a key, stick it in, and power up. Done. Brilliant. It probably should remove said file once the config is cleared, as a fail-safe. Don't want it to act as a poison pill. Only "gotcha" is that finding things that can write to a micro SD card is becoming harder. No to the iPhone. Also my latest Android, though it does have an OTG adapter so I can get there with a USB reader. The ecosystem is trying to force storage to a (paid, data mine-able) cloud, I think, using space and cost savings as a ruse. Greg Mark Webb-Johnson wrote:
The other option is SD CARD.
Firmware update can work that way. Put an ovms3.bin in the root of an SD card, plug it in, and it will be auto-flashed to update firmware.
We could have special files on SD CARD doing certain things. Like safe boot. Factory reset. Wifi AP. etc.
Can we write an SD CARD from an iPad? :-)
Regards, Mark.
On 22 Feb 2018, at 2:13 PM, Greg D. <gregd2350@gmail.com> wrote:
Wintel not assumed. I think of my eldest, a doctor, who uses a phone and a tablet. She has (owns) a Laptop computer, but hasn't booted it in years. There are a lot of "young'uns" in a similar situation.
As long as there's a safe (brick-proof) way back to sanity using only common tools, documentation, and the odd toothpick, we should be good.
Greg
Mark Webb-Johnson wrote:
P.S. I mean “PC” in the wider sense of the word. Not too hard to hook-up on linux, mac, or windows.
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