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[billndotnet]

I managed to jailbreak my SeeStar and install some SSH keys on it and poked around looking at things.  Then I stopped.  I just use it like a normal person and use the app plus the incredible https://github.com/s...rld/seestar_run Python to do mosaics and stuff.  You really don't gain anything other than a sense of accomplishment by cracking into it.  It's good at what it does, so I've decided to let it be what it is.

 

I assume that software upgrades in the future will add things like internal mosaic capabilities, perhaps scheduling, or at least target selection and imaging times.

You could shoehorn dropbox or tailscale on there to change how you use it, if you're feeling saucy. Maybe a little trashcan dome for it with a remote controller..

[kaicyung]

Bought and shipped directly from ZWO.

[AstroPotamus]

Dropbox maybe. If I used it. I have enough things that run Linux that my scope is fine just being a scope. 😄

[billndotnet]

haha, this happens every boot now: I hadn't looked in a while, updated my unit last night so I could work on a dropbox client addition to autosync /boot/Images:

## Home Partition
mount | grep -w "/dev/mmcblk0p6" 1>/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "Format Partition : mmcblk0p6"
    mkfs.ext4 -F -L pi /dev/mmcblk0p6 1>/dev/null 2>&1

    mount /dev/mmcblk0p6 /home/pi -o nofail,noatime,rw

    echo "Restore Home Partition"
    sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi
    tar zxf /etc/zwo/pi.tgz -C /home/pi 1>/dev/null 2>&1
    sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi
fi

I can't decide if this is to hose out their own cruft or just to get my ssh keys.

So now I keep them in /boot/Images and use the same boot script to copy them back.

Edited by billndotnet, 18 December 2024 - 12:20 PM.

[AstroPotamus]

I have to assume that they're reading threads like this and trying to come up with ways of stopping the jailbreaks.  I have to laugh at this one, though.  :-)

[billndotnet]

I've been hacking on my Plus and Seestar a bit lately, took the time to normalize some tools to make my life a little easier, thought I'd share them with the rest of you. I'm working on some other toys, like Dropbox sync and some alternative control setups (non tablet), that'll wind up in here as well.  Open to pull requests, suggestions, and requests.

Note: This repo does not contain jailbreak code, just administration tools for simple processes that are easy to call for non-linux savvy folks, as well as from my choice of jailbreak methods.

https://github.com/b...t/asiair-modkit

Edited by billndotnet, 21 December 2024 - 12:14 PM.

[billndotnet]

I have to assume that they're reading threads like this and trying to come up with ways of stopping the jailbreaks.  I have to laugh at this one, though.  :-)

The sheer age of the OS version they're running gives me a number of entry points for jailbreaks. Guest write access to the storage partitions is the biggest gift they could have given anyone wanting to try out arbitrary code execution exploits. I've got a list of CVEs if they want to play whack-a-mole.

[billndotnet]

I've been hacking on my Plus and Seestar a bit lately, took the time to normalize some tools to make my life a little easier, thought I'd share them with the rest of you. I'm working on some other toys, like Dropbox sync and some alternative control setups (non tablet), that'll wind up in here as well.  Open to pull requests, suggestions, and requests.

Note: This repo does not contain jailbreak code, just administration tools for simple processes that are easy to call for non-linux savvy folks, as well as from my choice of jailbreak methods.

https://github.com/b...t/asiair-modkit

Meanwhile, back at the ranch:

 

 

Live dropbox syncing as new images are saved.

[billndotnet]

If you haven't lately, I'd recommend caching a copy of the ASIair SD card image (1.4) and a recent Android APK.

[cucubits]

If you haven't lately, I'd recommend caching a copy of the ASIair SD card image (1.4) and a recent Android APK.

Are there any changes upcoming which will screw us up? Haven't heard anything lately.

[billndotnet]

I'll post some more details sometime before NEAF.

Edited by billndotnet, 07 February 2025 - 11:21 PM.

[AstroPotamus]

Maybe I need to buy an ASIair.

[LILO]

I have a 62Gb image dump as expected but it doen't seem to be "viable" when using kpartx to mount filesystems from the dump file, they just don't work + when gzipping the dump file (as I was hoping to share it with you guys as requested), it only wheights 73Mb which is suspicious... there must be missing data in there !

 

Just look inside ur dump.

Recent u-boot versions has a limit, everything beyond 32M is filled with 0xCC.

But it could be circumvented.