[Commotion-dev] ubiquiti auto-reset

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

On Jan 31, 2014, at 7:53 PM, Josh King <jking at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

> Hi Aaron,

Hi :)

> 
> No doubt a different frequency would be good. I think our initial use 
> case, at least, is a little different from the CONFINE stuff. 
Sure. 

> Primarily, we'd be looking to automate testing on our internal testbed 
> as part of our CI process. So we could hook Jenkins up to a script that 
> would push images out to the supervisor devices as they're built, and 
> those would reflash the nodes and run tests. The appeal of getting TFTP 
> mode on the Ubiquiti devices is that we could automate reflashing the 
> testbed even if a build is bad; we don't have to worry about anything 
> on the node working correctly.
> 
Makes sense.

> There are probably other ways to approach this problem as well, though, 
> such as other hardware that's even easier to reflash at a moment's 
> notice.
> 
Yes, probably. Please note that I however just noticed the discussion about 
the CONFINE wiki page and the planned reset device and I wanted to point out 
that this particular approach was unfortunately abandoned. We might get back 
to this approach later, but not right now. Reason: lack of resources and time.

Anyway, please keep me updated in case you are successful with jenkins + tftp.
Sounds like a really nice thing to have.

:)
Have a nice evening,
a.

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