Automatically configure a Boot2Gecko Device. It's so ez!
Project description
Automatically configure a Boot2Gecko Device. It’s so ez!
This is a command line script for the convenience of developing on B2G such that you need to flash new builds to your device periodically and begin hacking ASAP.
Features:
Automatically downloads the latest build and flashes it
Configures WiFi on your device
Pre-installs apps that you commonly need
Puts custom prefs on your device
Easy, intuitive command line
You can use a config file for everything
Frictionless convention over configuration
Do you really need this? Probably not! You should try the Firefox OS Simulator first. There are some device interaction features coming very soon to the simulator (such as Push To Device) that will hopefully make this script obsolete.
Requirements:
Mac or Linux.
On Mac you might need to install XCode with Command Line Tools from https://developer.apple.com/downloads/
Windows could be supported but prepare to send patches.
You must use a build of B2G that has Marionette enabled. More details below.
Python 2.7 or greater (Python 3 isn’t suported yet)
adb needs to be on your $PATH. Get it from the Android SDK.
Some additional Python modules will be installed as dependencies
Caveats:
You should not enable the Remote Debugging setting on B2G when Marionette is enabled. This will create conflicting debugger listeners. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764913 for info.
Contents:
Install
With pip, run this:
pip install ezboot
This pulls in some dependencies so you may want to use a common virtualenv and adjust your $PATH so you can use ezboot for any project, e.g. /path/to/.virtualenvs/ezboot/bin.
To install from source:
git clone git://github.com/kumar303/ezboot.git cd ezboot python setup.py develop
Source
The source is available at https://github.com/kumar303/ezboot/
Marionette
For this script to work you must flash your device with a B2G build that has Marionette enabled. The flash command will do that for you. Read this if you want to build various flavors of B2G with Marionette support yourself.
First Timers
You’ll try anything at least once, right? The very first time you run ezboot flash you probably need to enable Remote Debugging first by digging into Settings > Device Information > More Information > Developer. Otherwise, adb won’t be able to connect. This only applies if you had flashed with a B2G build that did not have Marionette enabled. If you’ve never installed B2G at all then you need to enable debugger connections on Android.
Usage
Run this for a quick reference:
ezboot --help
Config file
You can set defaults for all argument values by creating an ezboot.ini file in the working directory. Make a section for each sub command with long argument names as keys. For example:
[setup]
wifi_ssid = mywifi
wifi_key = WPA-PSK
wifi_pass = my secure password with spaces
apps = https://marketplace-dev.allizom.org/manifest.webapp
https://marketplace.allizom.org/manifest.webapp
[flash]
flash_user = ...
flash_pass = ...
Commands
flash
This downloads a build and flashes it to your device. Here is a full reference:
ezboot flash --help
The defaults will probably work for you. If you don’t want to be prompted for your username/password each time, you can save them in an ezboot.ini config file:
[flash] flash_user = the_user flash_pass = secret$password
Captain Obvious says don’t commit your password to a public repo.
setup
This sets up your flashed device for usage. Here is the full reference:
ezboot setup --help
It can do the following:
configure WiFi
pre-install some apps
put custom prefs on the device
The --apps argument takes multiple values. In a config file, add them one per line in an ezboot.ini config file like this:
[setup]
apps = https://marketplace-dev.allizom.org/manifest.webapp
https://marketplace.allizom.org/manifest.webapp
wifi_ssid = ...
wifi_key = WPA-PSK
wifi_pass = ...
By convention, if you put a custom prefs file in ./ezboot/custom-prefs.js where dot is the working directory then it will be pushed to /data/local/user.js on the device. Any existing custom prefs are not preserved.
http
This restarts your phone with HTTP logging temporarily enabled. Here is the full reference:
ezboot http --help
This runs B2G on the device until you interrupt it (^C). After you’re finished the console will tell you where to find a log of all HTTP requests/responses. When you view the file it might warn you that it has binary content but that’s typically just at the beginning of the file. Keep paging.
Why?
While automated functional tests are fantastic I also want to make sure developers are testing their changes manually on real devices with the latest builds. It’s a pain to maintain a development device yourself so this created an itch that had to be scratched. There is plenty of prior art on B2G scripts but each had different goals or they were done with cryptic bash magic.
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