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Linux
Yoe Updater and Factory Install 🚀
The Yoe Distribution uses the Yoe updater for managing the system firmware. It has two modes:
- prepare a system's default installer media e.g. eMMC and installs a factory image into it.
- update or OTA (over-the-air) mode in which it can find updates on the data partition or media like USB disks or SD cards and then apply the updates to system firmware without touching the content of data partition.
There is a special image target yoe-installer-image where
FACTORY_INSTALL_IMAGE is made part of installer which is the initial image
that will be installed. This image can be written to removable media (USB/SD)
and used to partition and install software to a soldered-down eMMC device.
Later, different images can be applied by installing update images.
We are also working on options to make rootfs changes temporary (disappear after the next reboot) or persistent via various overlay filesystem configurations.
IoT
Airgain NL-SW-LTE-TG1WWG Modem
We are qualifying a new Airgain Cat-M modem for projects. The above page will detail our progress. Excited to try native USB ECM mode to see if we can get away from using PPP over serial for the network interface ...
This module uses a Telit modem. Supposedly the modem is compatible with Cat-1, Cat-4 modules, so can more easily scale to different modem speeds without changing software -- that would be nice!
Shelly Automation device support
We are in the process of adding support for Shelly IoT devices. Shelly devices have open APIs, a built-in web server, and are reasonably priced. This is the way home automation should work. Stay tuned for updates soon ...
Other
Lots of news and updates on the community site. A few samples:
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