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Add Serial Number to Avahi Service for Board Deduplication #48

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set serial number for network discovery at post install time
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set script running before Avahi service
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions debian/arduino-app-cli/DEBIAN/postinst
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Expand Up @@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ chown -R arduino:arduino /home/arduino/.local/share/arduino-app-cli

systemctl enable arduino-app-cli
systemctl enable arduino-burn-bootloader
systemctl enable arduino-avahi-serial.service
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions debian/arduino-app-cli/DEBIAN/prerm
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systemctl disable arduino-app-cli
systemctl disable arduino-burn-bootloader
systemctl disable arduino-avahi-serial.service
17 changes: 17 additions & 0 deletions debian/arduino-app-cli/etc/systemd/system/arduino-avahi-serial.service
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[Unit]
Description=Configure Avahi with board serial number
Before=avahi-daemon.service
ConditionPathExists=!/var/lib/arduino-app-cli/avahi_serial_configured.flag

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=true
ExecStart=/var/lib/arduino-app-cli/arduino-avahi-serial.sh
ExecStartPost=/bin/mkdir -p /var/lib/arduino-app-cli
ExecStartPost=/bin/touch /var/lib/arduino-app-cli/avahi_serial_configured.flag

StandardOutput=journal
StandardError=journal

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
37 changes: 37 additions & 0 deletions debian/arduino-app-cli/var/lib/arduino-app-cli/arduino-avahi-serial.sh
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#!/bin/sh
# Configure Avahi with the serial number.


TARGET_FILE="/etc/avahi/services/arduino.service"
SERIAL_NUMBER_PATH="/sys/devices/soc0/serial_number"

echo "Configuring Avahi with serial number for network discovery..."

if [ ! -f "$SERIAL_NUMBER_PATH" ]; then
echo "Error: Serial number path not found at $SERIAL_NUMBER_PATH." >&2
exit 1
fi


if [ ! -w "$TARGET_FILE" ]; then
echo "Error: Target file $TARGET_FILE not found or not writable." >&2
exit 1
fi

SERIAL_NUMBER=$(cat "$SERIAL_NUMBER_PATH")

if [ -z "$SERIAL_NUMBER" ]; then
echo "Error: Serial number file is empty." >&2
exit 1
fi

if grep -q "serial_number=" "$TARGET_FILE"; then
echo "Serial number ($SERIAL_NUMBER) already configured."
exit 0
fi

echo "Adding serial number to $TARGET_FILE..."
sed -i "/<\/service>/i <txt-record>serial_number=${SERIAL_NUMBER}<\/txt-record>" "$TARGET_FILE"

echo "Avahi configuration attempt finished."
exit 0