Console support for EZ Installer

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Are there any plans to support console mode for the EZ installer?

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Hi, I’m the Toradex AI Assistant.

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Based on the available documentation, Toradex Easy Installer already provides console support through a serial console interface (1).

Current Console Support

The Toradex Easy Installer includes a serial console available on UART1/UART_A (1). This console provides:

  • Shell access to the Easy Installer system (1)
  • Debug capabilities with log file access at /var/volatile/tezi.log (1)
  • Manual control of the UI process (1)

Console Operations

You can perform several operations through the serial console:

View Debug Information

cat /var/volatile/tezi.log

(1)

Control the UI Process

To kill the UI:

killall tezi

(1)

To manually restart the UI:

/usr/bin/tezi -qws < /dev/null

(1)

Unattended Installation

For automated console-based operations, Easy Installer supports auto installation functionality where images can be marked with the autoinstall property in the image.json file, enabling completely unattended flashing (2).

The current console implementation appears to provide comprehensive access to Easy Installer functionality. The documentation doesn’t mention any specific plans for enhanced console modes beyond what’s currently available.

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The TEZI CLI is implemented, but it is not officially supported, and we cannot guarantee that it will continue to work in future releases.
USAGE

tezictl [options] <command>

Options:
  -h, --help            Displays help on commandline options.
  --help-all            Displays help including Qt specific options.
  -v, --version         Displays version information.
  --accept-all-licenses	Accept all license dialogs (license & release notes),
                        only available for image-install command.

Commands:
  image-list            Lists the available images and their image ID
  image-install <image>	Installs an image. <image> can be an image ID or an
                        explicit URL to an image.json
  feed-list             Lists the feeds, qt-tezi currently reads from
  feed-add <feed>       Adds a feed, <feed> needs to be a valid URL
  status                Returns the current status of qt-tezi. Possible return
                        values can be idle, scanning, installing, installed,
                        aborted, failed or unknown
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