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Could Tangara Companion check/fetch latest firmware? - taivlam - 2025-02-02

I am wondering if it's within Cool Tech Zone's scope to have the Tangara Companion desktop application have the ability to check for the latest update and download the latest firmware in the future.

As I currently understand things (not to be pedantic, but), Tangara Companion isn't directly developed by Cool Tech Zone project but by Hailey.

I bring this up for the long term future, as this distinction might confuse users who aren't usually in the usual Crowd Supply audience, as I might suggest Tangara to some other non-technical friends down the road.

RE: Could Tangara Companion checkfetch latest firmware? - jacqueline - 2025-02-04

It's very doable, and would be cool! Presumably (hopefully?) Codeberg/Forgejo should have a nice API for fetching release artifacts for a repository, right? If so this could be a pretty straightforward feature to implement. And Hailey is certainly very nice and friendly and would enjoy to receive a PR for such a feature.

RE: Could Tangara Companion checkfetch latest firmware? - gkr - 2025-02-06

The API endpoint for the latest tangara FW release is https://codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/releases/latest

They also have an URL for human pointing to the latest FW, https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/releases/latest

forgejo seems really nice

RE: Could Tangara Companion check/fetch latest firmware? - taivlam - 2025-02-08


  1. I've seen other projects on GitHub/GitLab generate checksums with each release, but I hadn't looked into how the API endpoint is part of accomplishing this.
  2. Thanks for the latest release link on Codeberg - I tried to find this on my own, but wasn't able to deduce this.

Here related the codeforge discussions that I've made:

RE: Could Tangara Companion check/fetch latest firmware? - river - 2025-02-09

(2025-02-08, 08:13 PM)taivlam Wrote:
  1. I've seen other projects on GitHub/GitLab generate checksums with each release, but I hadn't looked into how the API endpoint is part of accomplishing this.
  2. Thanks for the latest release link on Codeberg - I tried to find this on my own, but wasn't able to deduce this.

I will also make a new issue report in the Tangara Companion repo on GitHub and put a link here.

Edit: here related the codeforge discussions:

You accidentally linked the github issue twice there; I suppose you meant to link here

RE: Could Tangara Companion check/fetch latest firmware? - taivlam - 2025-02-09

(I've fixed the link to the Codeberg issue above.)