Json Config File about firemotd HOT 12 CLOSED

@ThomDietrich @dimon222
Ok, fixed the invader them today. Unless you guys give me a good reason not to update master with dev-willem in the next week I'm going into production.

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@dimon222 @ThomDietrich Seems like in Ubuntu you need to compile it :(

./configure && make && sudo make install

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/

This is kind of annoying I guess for everyone not using yum...,?

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Repository installation confirmed on Ubuntu 14.04 and Raspbian 8 (which I didn't expect).
No problems on my side.

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Can you post the full installation instructions for Ubuntu? Tx

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Debian (so should probably affect all the debian based builds) - available in official repo via
sudo apt-get install jq

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This will do

sudo apt install jq

With the focus on older systems @dimon222 's apt-get option might be safer

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@tavinus @ThomDietrich

Feel free to checkout dev-willem

Test run with sudo ./FireMotD -E

Output /var/tmp/FireJson.json:

{
  "version": {
    "Generated": "@logon",
    "Value": " 7.11.170608 ",
    "LastRun": "2017-07-11 16:19:05,835"
  },
  "hostname": {
    "Generated": "@logon",
    "Value": "n02.outsideit.net",
    "LastRun": "2017-07-11 16:19:05,835"
  },
  "hostip": {
    "Generated": "@logon",
    "Value": "172.104.134.172",
    "LastRun": "2017-07-11 16:19:05,835"
  }
}

So my plan is to build the json data file in steps. That way I can work on it when I have the time and the old method will keep working for some time.

More-utils is required too now in orde to use sponge. https://rentes.github.io/unix/utilities/2015/07/27/moreutils-package/

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Sounds good and going at it step by steps is reasonable! Way to go! 🎉

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@ThomDietrich @dimon222 Ok, forget what I said, I reworked the whole thing. No backwards compatibility, as it's just too much hassle. So most functionalities have been ported. All data is written to and read from the json file /var/tmp/FireMotD.json

Could you please test it and let me know what you think. I would want to push to master asap. Only the invader and the html theme haven't been ported yet. The rest should work. it contains a default json, my goal is to make this an external file in the near future, but for now it's hardcoded.

Start with running it at least once like this:

sudo ./FireMotD -S

Then run with

./FireMotD --Theme Modern

This means we can finally use sudo commands and gather even more information. Looking forward to your opinion.

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Did another commit with some bugfixes.

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Hey, I was a bit busy lately. The proposal and code I saw looked good and I'm sure you did a great job implementing and testing everything. I'll speak up if problems present themselves ;)

For me this will be interesting because I'll need to update the FireMotD routine in openHABian!

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Moved dev-willem to master. Closing this issue. Feel free to make new ones if you do encounter problems.

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