Tom,

Looks good.

The V1 firmware (both experimental and production) only contains vehicle_none and vehicle_roadster.
The V2 firmware (both experimental and production) contains all supported vehicles.

So, no need to direct owners to particular builds. Note that in future we may need to split the V2 firmware into vehicle groups (eg; V2_production_group1, V2_production_group2, etc) if we run out of code space due to too many vehicles being supported - but that would be a good place to be at :-)

For current level of vehicle support, you can refer to: http://www.openvehicles.com/vehiclesupport

The difference between experimental and production is currently only that experimental includes the Tesla Roadster v2.x digital speedo code.

Regards, Mark.

P.S. I've removed those old firmware .hex files (VA_*, TR_*, RT_*, etc). I'm also going to .gitignore the vehicle/OVMS.x/dist tree entirely, to stop future confusion, and rely on manual copy to vehicle/firmware when we actually release.

On 17 Jan, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Tom Saxton wrote:

Go it! The firmware update page is now updated with links straight to the
github files, with the note to Roadster owners as well as the link to the
release notes.

Is Twizzy and Volt support built into the V2 hardware production build, or
just the experimental? I'm just wondering if I need to direct those owners
to one build or the other.

   Tom

on 1/16/13 7:53 PM, Mark Webb-Johnson wrote:

Tom,

For firmware v2.x builds, there are now just 4:

V1_experimental.hex             V1 Hardware Module, experimental firmware
V1_production.hex               V1 Hardware Module, production firmware
V2_experimental.hex             V2 Hardware Module, experimental firmware
V2_production.hex               V2 Hardware Module, production firmware

A single firmware supports multiple vehicle types (selectable at run-time
based on parameter #14 (or the fourth argument to the "MODULE" SMS command).

It may be worth pointing out the following on the update page:

For Tesla Roadster owners, once you upgrade firmware from v1 to v2, you will
need to either:
 (a) SMS "MODULE" command again to include the fourth parameter vehicle type
"TR", or
 (b) use the iOS App to set parameter #14 to "TR" (you can even do this in
the App _before_ you upgrade).
You will require this for the CAN bus stuff to work. We have updated the
Tesla Roadster user guide to reflect this new parameter.


Regards, Mark.

On 17 Jan, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Tom Saxton wrote:

The idea of permanent links sounds great, but now I'm confused.

I just flashed my V1 Roadster module, and it comes up as version 1.5.1. Now
that I look more carefully, I see that all of the .hex files I grabbed from
my updated OVMS directory are dated 10/21/2012. For example,

vehicle/OVMS.X/dist/RT_V2_Experimental

Looking at the links in the tagged v2.2.2 folder, I just see four builds
(V1,V2)x(Experimental,Production). I expected to see builds for each
vehicle.

Or is V1 just for the Roadster and the V2 build dynamically figures out
which vehicle it's on?

  Tom

on 1/16/13 5:39 PM, Mark Webb-Johnson wrote:

I think I may have a solution for this (going forward).

If we use the git 'tags' feature, to tag each released firmware build,
github
will allow us to publish the tree at that time. For example, see:

https://github.com/markwj/Open-Vehicle-Monitoring-System/tree/v2.2.2/vehicle
/f
irmware

And an example link to the v2.2.2 V2 production firmware is:

https://github.com/markwj/Open-Vehicle-Monitoring-System/raw/v2.2.2/vehicle/
fi
rmware/V2_production.hex

That link is quite clean and should be stable going forward. It will just
take
some discipline to set things up correctly during a release:

Build all firmware
Copy the .hex files to the firmware folder
Update the change log
Commit
Tag the commit
push (--tags) to github
Announce the new version

What do people think? Sensible?

Regards, Mark.

On 15 Jan, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Mark Webb-Johnson wrote:


I think this approach is ok, and given github's approach probably the best
way.

I really wish that github had a 'files' repository (like sourceforge) that
we
could put fixed (not revision controlled) files. Release, not development,
files. I tried to create symlinks (in the 'firmware' folder), but they
don't
work (the symlink text file is just downloaded, not the thing it linked
to),
and anyway that doesn't give us history.

I've got a git guru on staff here at work - I'll ask him for his advise.

Regards, Mark.

On 15 Jan, 2013, at 5:49 AM, Tom Saxton wrote:

That directory structure changes about as often as there are new official
releases, as you can tell by all of the orphan build directories. Linking
straight into the repository won't let me pick up new vehicles, and will
break when vehicles go from "experimental" to "production" status.

The release notes aren't in the repository (AFAIK), so I have to enter
those
links manually as well.

Given that I have to manually update the page, I figure it's more reliable
to ferret out the right versions for each vehicle and copy them to my
site.
This way, my page keeps working even if the repository changes, which
means
less work maintaining the page between releases (which is currently zero
effort).

Anyone who's really into getting the latest builds can just grab the files
from the repository. My page is to support those who don't care enough to
climb that learning curve.

Tom

on 1/14/13 1:23 PM, Michael Balzer wrote:

Thanks, Tom!

Hm... to optimize the rollout, have you tried to link directly to the
repository files?

The links in vehicle/firmware don't work, but using the github file
browser I can get for example...

https://raw.github.com/markwj/Open-Vehicle-Monitoring-System/master/vehic
le
/OV
MS.X/dist/V2_Experimental/production/OVMS.X.production.hex

I'm new to github, but that URL scheme looks like being designed as a
permanent link.

Regards,
Michael


Am 14.01.2013 21:13, schrieb Tom Saxton:
The firmware update guide page now has version 2.2.2 builds up.

http://www.idleloop.com/tesla/ovms/

 Tom


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