Working on new Snakeoil release - 1.3.x (Codename Measurements)

[agent_kith]

Welcome back AK. It was not nice watching you struggle with your work and that particular colleague.

I should really stop whinging about this guy, but it's really hard not to. Still pissed off he took salary (a lot of it btw) and effectively done nothing... This is obviously not good for me professionally to talk bad about somebody in public. But he is really that bad...

This will probably be the last time I mention him publicly now, as I vow to wipe him from memory. Figuratively & literally - I'm actually re-writing parts of his code earlier (i.e. removing his crap).

And use web sockets rather than loopback?

Thanks for the offer. Will ask for your help once I get the installer ready. You mean for the WebApp? Probably not going to use web sockets as RestAPI is more CPU cycle friendly.

Technically the library (cpprestsdk) I'm using for the implementation do have a WS interface, but don't see any need for introducing that for now. In truth I did thought of introducing WS when doing app installs and firmware upgrades, but just don't like the idea of introducing something that could potentially affect SQ. 

Rereading this announcement today, AK, does this mean that there will be no support for the RPi 3 in Measurement?

Ubuntu 64 bits will run on 3 and 4. So RPi3 will still be supported. Personally though I will go for a Pi4 or CM4 platform.

In theory if you're still on Raspi OS the firmware upgrade path should continue to work (In theory! yet to confirm).

Moving to Measurements will probably mean buying a new micro-sd card, image Ubuntu 64, run the installing and restore old config.

The thing I guess is to try Raspbian and Ubuntu (both 32 bits and 64bits), and then find the one with the best promise. Then cull from there.

Anyway, folks please post suggestions/comments/ideas... Not going to start on this tonight as I need to finish some of my day time job later when I'm at home. But hopefully I can get things rolling from Thurs onwards.