Update Phoniebox (from 1.1.9 to 2.2)

[jtritter]

Hi there,

is there any way to update my from release 1.1.9 to 2.2 without doing a complete new install? Something like an update-script? I have a lot of cards and mp3s on this boxes so creating everything new wouldn't funny. BTW my boxes run Raspbian stretch - do I need an update to buster, too?

Yours
Jürgen

[s-martin]

Phoniebox doesn't have a very good upgrade path. So if your box is working and you don't need any of the new features I would suggest not upgrade.

However a few thoughts:

• Stretch support is about to be dropped, so I would also upgrade to Buster; frankly I'm not sure, if the Stretch install script still works
• My suggestion would be to copy/backup the whole current installation directory RPi-Jukebox-RFID, so your music, settings and RFID cards don't get lost
• if you use GPIO be advised we have a new component GPIO control, so you need to manually migrate your GPIO settings after the installation of 2.2 from gpio_buttons.py to settings/gpio_settings.ini
• After the new installation you should copy your music, playlist, cards from the old saved directory to the new installation

[jtritter]

Thank you for the quick reply. I just thought about an update of my 3 boxes due to a new major release of Phoniebox and the "buster-thing". As these 3 boxes sync each other copying the music- and card-files will be no problem. I just wanted to avoid installing 3 boxes completly new while there is an easy to use update-script that I just didn't find...

Yours
Jürgen