MerlinAU MerlinAU v1.5.8 - The Ultimate Firmware Auto-Updater

[ExtremeFiretop]

I would recommend updating if you want to retain support for MerlinAU as your currently 4 versions behind the current production firmware.

Actually you have the V2 version of the AX58U, I didn't notice originally but that means your running Gnuton.
So a correction to my statement is your only 1 production version behind for Gnuton firmware, since he has not made an official release of 388.10.0 or 388.11

So I'll take note of that for future releases, Gnuton users it seems are further behind just in general unfortunately.

 

[bidh]

Thanks for your help, everything is up to date now.
Indeed my password was not saved although I was sure it was.

 

[ExtremeFiretop]

Thanks for your help, everything is up to date now.
Indeed my password was not saved although I was sure it was.

I would check the MerlinAU logs by SSH. And verify that's what it was complaining about. You can go back through history to see if something changed at some point.

 

[JimbobJay]

Is there a way to manually reinstall Release 1.5.7 ? I just updated and was not informed until after the update that the version of MerlinAU is not supported on my fw.

I had been holding out on using MerlinAU to update my parent's router fw from the 3004 branch to 3006, until I was at least within feasible travel distance to them, in case I needed to be on-site afterwards.

I know I am a fair bit behind fw versions now. Whilst my own router fw is up-to-date (using the excellent MerlinAU), I just haven't had the time to dedicate a remote update process on my parent's LAN and the risk of breaking anything, whilst I haven't been on-hand to potentially fix it afterwards. Whilst holding off, I did still want to use MerlinAU for the process eventually, just once I had the time to monitor it and be on-hand (i.e. in the same country) if anything went wrong.

MerlinAU 1.5.8 seemingly has taken that option away from me now, without forewarning. Can I roll back to 1.5.7?

I do think perhaps a pre-update check and warning beforehand, with an option to stay on the currently supported version, would have been useful for this particular update.

 

[ExtremeFiretop]

Is there a way to manually reinstall Release 1.5.7 ? I just updated and was not informed until after the update that the version of MerlinAU is not supported on my fw.

curl --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ExtremeFiretop/MerlinAutoUpdate-Router/2257f23c1ef298f4cbddd18b58bb4194cbfa5355/MerlinAU.sh" -o "/jffs/scripts/MerlinAU.sh" && chmod +x "/jffs/scripts/MerlinAU.sh"

 

[ExtremeFiretop]

I had been holding out on using MerlinAU to update my parent's router fw from the 3004 branch to 3006, until I was at least within feasible travel distance to them, in case I needed to be on-site afterwards.

You are well over a year behind if your still running 3004 firmware on a router with an upgrade path to 3006.

You can downgrade MerlinAU; but be advised you'll be out of support. I won't troubleshoot anything related to older versions of MerlinAU.

Holding an update "indefinitely" is not the expected use-case for MerlinAU, the longest postpone period we allow is 6.5 months, I realize you can disable Auto-Updates completely and run it manually, but I would have to urge you to look into making that upgrade sooner than later.

 

[JimbobJay]

You are well over a year behind if your still running 3004 firmware on a router with an upgrade path to 3006.

You can downgrade MerlinAU; but be advised you'll be out of support. I won't troubleshoot anything related to older versions of MerlinAU.

Holding an update "indefinitely" is not the expected use-case for MerlinAU, the longest postpone period we allow is 6.5 months, I realize you can disable Auto-Updates completely and run it manually, but I would have to urge you to look into making that upgrade sooner than later.

Understood! Thanks for the info on how to reinstall 1.5.7 and the warning on support.

I do know my parent's fw is quite far behind at this point. In an ideal world it would have been done already. But when I am not in the country (and knowing the hassle of trying to give them remote support over video call if anything does go wrong with the router itself), the risk of doing a fw update that changed branches, when I am not around, has just been too high.

I am due to visit them in a few months time so had been holding out until then. Perhaps this is the prompt I needed though to just bite the bullet.

 

[ExtremeFiretop]

Understood! Thanks for the info on how to reinstall 1.5.7 and the warning on support.

I do know my parent's fw is quite far behind at this point. In an ideal world it would have been done already. But when I am not in the country (and knowing the hassle of trying to give them remote support over video call if anything does go wrong with the router itself), the risk of doing a fw update that changed branches, when I am not around, has just been too high.

I am due to visit them in a few months time so had been holding out until then. Perhaps this is the prompt I needed though to just bite the bullet.

I've taken a note for future releases to only lock out firmware versions that are 5 builds behind the current production (instead of 3, mostly due to Gnuton being generally behind RMerlin builds)

For now you can simply downgrade and not update MerlinAU when prompted, or disable auto updates for the script in the WebUI.

Additionally, I will look into giving a warning if the minimum firmware build changes in the update process.

 

[JimbobJay]

curl --retry 3 "https://github.com/ExtremeFiretop/MerlinAutoUpdate-Router/blob/2257f23c1ef298f4cbddd18b58bb4194cbfa5355/MerlinAU.sh" -o "/jffs/scripts/MerlinAU.sh" && chmod +x "/jffs/scripts/MerlinAU.sh"

Thanks for this. Just in case others need to do the same though, this command didn't work first time as currently printed. I needed to use the url for the raw commit instead, to get it to work

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ExtremeFiretop/MerlinAutoUpdate-Router/2257f23c1ef298f4cbddd18b58bb4194cbfa5355/MerlinAU.sh

1.5.7 now successfully reinstalled. Thank you (Also, just as an aside, thanks to all your work on MerlinAU, ever since I started using your tool, my remote fw updates on my parents' router have been so much smoother than they used to be. It has only been the branch change from 3004 to 3006 and the expereience of remote "parental video call" support that scared me off updating their fw for so long!)

 

[ExtremeFiretop]

1.5.7 now successfully reinstalled. Thank you (Also, just as an aside, thanks to all your work on MerlinAU, ever since I started using your tool, my remote fw updates on my parents' router have been so much smoother than they used to be. It has only been the branch change from 3004 to 3006 and the expereience of remote "parental video call" support that scared me off updating their fw for so long!)

Happy to hear your back in business, and happy to be of service.
I do hope that the upgrade to 3006 firmware for your parents is as painless as possible. I have my fingers crossed for you