Airrohr Firmware Flasher: build on modern OSes, fix continuous integration

kolobok · June 7, 2023, 11:21am

Hi! <TL;DR>It would be nice to have a functional airrohr-firmware-flasher build process to be able to make binaries for all modern operating systems.

Technical details:
At first airrohr-firmware-flasher stopped building because one of the python packages has become no longer available for download. I got it fixed and the pull request got merged relatively quickly.

Then I wanted to make sure that the tool gets successfully built on modern versions of operating systems (Ubuntu variant of GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows), so I wrote a CI to fix the build process.

Somehow my pull-request doesn’t get merged even though it’s almost completely focused on one single file – the Github Actions file.

github.com/opendata-stuttgart/airrohr-firmware-flasher

Move Continuous Integration to Github Actions and be able to download resulting binaries

opendata-stuttgart:master ← thepapermen:master

opened 09:24PM - 16 May 23 UTC

thepapermen

+92 -5

@ricki-z, hi, thanks for making The World a better place. I saw that CI for t…his project got broken and see GitHub Actions as a nice a somewhat more user friendly of Continuous Integration. You can **[see the result here.](https://github.com/thepapermen/airrohr-firmware-flasher/actions/runs/4996606565)** As I've written before, I've encountered an issue with and Ubuntu build of this great tool, since I fixed it, **I automated the build in the cloud for all of the supported platforms.** To be able to Support Mac OS 11, I had to bump some of requirement packages versions a bit and also add a small compatibility shim in `dmgbuild_settings.` This will allow to test different OSes, Python versions and configs more easily. ![Screenshot from 2023-05-16 22-59-03](https://github.com/opendata-stuttgart/airrohr-firmware-flasher/assets/796137/ada6e8b8-a300-40c6-af34-fb21810aac43) I have written a github action code to automatically build the airrohr-firmware-flasher on Linux (Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04), Mac OS (11) and Windows. All of the CI code is in one single file: https://github.com/thepapermen/airrohr-firmware-flasher/blob/master/.github/workflows/build-airrohr-firmware-flasher.yml **The build runs and produces executable files. Hovever, I didn't test and run the resulting binaries except the Ubuntu 20.04 version because I don't have PCs running other OSes than that.**

kolobok · September 6, 2023, 6:48am

Thanks for @ricki-z the code for automatic Firmware Flasher Builds on all OSes (GNU/Linux, MacOS, Microsoft Windows) has been merged.

So, anyone who develops or uses the firmware flasher is now able to produce it’s working binaries without the hassle of setting up complicated local build environment.

JPH_NL · December 23, 2023, 12:03pm

Hello Kolobok, I am new on this platform and trying to build a particulate matter sensor. I use a brand-new MacBook Air on Sonoma 14.1.2. On this system the “Sensor.Community Airrohr Flasher” does not run. Is it possible to run the flasher on Mac? Thanks for the help!

kolobok · January 15, 2024, 9:38am

Hi, @JPH_NL. Try the latest Mac OS binary from here: (section “Artifacts”).