I keep seeing posts of people loosing access to the GUI for whatever reason and not being able to recover even after restoring settings to factory defaults. Part of the restore settings mechanism blocks ssh access so it's a double whammy.
I have a mechanism that forces a Venus OS firmware update as part of my SetupHelper blind uninstall mechanism. I recommend that this be added to the restore to factory defaults venus-data.tgz.
I also rename venus-data.tgz so it won't run again if the media is left plugged in.
Here's the shell script code I used:
# check to see if Venus OS will be reinstalled - actuall reinstall will be done later
swCheckOutput=$(/opt/victronenergy/swupdate-scripts/check-updates.sh -offline -force -check)
if (( $? == 0 )); then
reinstallVenusOs=true
swUpdateVersion=$(echo $swCheckOutput | awk '{print $NF}')
else
reinstallVenusOs=false
swUpdateVersion="none"
# reinstall Venus OS - done in background so this script can clean up and exit without disrupting the software update
if $reinstallVenusOs ; then
logMessage "reinstalling Venus OS $swUpdateVersion"
nohup sh -c 'sleep 1; /opt/victronenergy/swupdate-scripts/check-updates.sh -offline -force -update' > /dev/null &
# reboot if not reinstalling Venus OS
else
logMessage "rebooting ..."
nohup sh -c 'sleep 1; reboot' > /dev/null &
fi
# rename archive on removable media to prevent blindInstall from running again
drives=$(ls /run/media/)
for drive in $drives ; do
archive="/run/media/$drive/venus-data.tar.gz"
if [ -f "$archive" ]; then
logMessage "renaming venus-data.tar.gz so blindUninstall won't run again"
mv $archive "/run/media/$drive/venus-data.UninstallPackages.tar.gz"
fi
done
