OS Update/Upgrade Guideline with Web
Connect the recamera to your computer using the type-c cable, and go to http://192.168.42.1/#/system in your computer's browser, or replace the IP address if you are visiting the device via network. Before upgrading, make sure reCamera has access to the internet by checking ip_address/#/network.
Click System Configuration, and if a new firmware is released, click Apply to update/upgrade the device system. The button text would be "Check" if there is no new firware auto detected.
Wait for the progress bar to complete.
Click Restart to complete the system update/upgrade. Refresh the browser around 30 seconds to reconnect to the device.
The system will automatically check if there is a new version of firmware that can be updated/upgrade.
OS Version management by command
Device management by OTA
Update/Upgrade to latest OTA version
You can check out the latest version of the reCamera OS here.
Manually update/upgrade the latest OTA firmware:
#Upgrade to the latest firmware version
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh latest https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/reCamera-OS/releases/latest
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh start
or
Update/Upgrade or rollback to any specific OTA version
If you have a speicific version you would like to deploy, you can use the command below.
#E.g. install 0.1.4 as an example
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh latest https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/reCamera-OS/releases/tag/0.1.4
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh start
If you are developing OS and you have your own branch in github, you can also update/upgrade the system version with your branch link.
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh latest https://github.com/your-user-name/reCamera-OS/releases/your-version-file-address
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh start
Device management by local package
You can also update/upgrade the firmware manually using the local ota package. The ota firmwares can be downloaded here. Use tools like scp to transfer the files to reCamera.
scp sg2002_reCamera_0.1.3_emmc_ota.zip recamera@ip_address
Then use the bash to deploy.
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh start sg2002_reCamera_0.1.3_emmc_ota.zip
If you don't have enough permissions to dump files into recamera, you can can change system files to be readable or writable by typing rootfs_rw on/off.
Manually restore factory Settings.
This command can restore reCamera to facotry settings. If you use this, all of your user data will be removed such as Node-RED flow and local storage.
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh recovery
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