Hacking [RELEASE] StarUpdater - A Luma3DS Updater

[astronautlevel]

StarUpdater is a basic updater for Luma3DS CFW, written in lpp-3ds.

Features:

1. Supports both menuhax/a9lh
2. Supports both dev and non dev versions of Luma
3. Supports stable releases and hourly nightlies
4. Supports custom paths
5. Supports making and restoring backups of your arm9 payload
6. Self-updating
7. Official CIA build

If you use a custom path, create a update.cfg file in /luma/ and put your complete path (including the forward slash) in the file. An example would be:

/a9lh/luma.bin

Here's a picture of the GUI (Thanks to @pbanj):

Link to source and releases: https://github.com/astronautlevel2/StarUpdater

Known bugs:

• None right now!

Features to implement:

• Persistent configuration for a9lh and dev mode options
• A nicer UI, possibly.
• TENTATIVELY, an arm9 payload for restoring backups.

Credits/thanks:

• Thanks to @Rinnegatamante for lpp-3ds, which this app is programmed in
• Thanks to @squee666 for making the banner and icon
• Thanks to @ihaveamac for helping me work out a nasty graphical bug
• Thanks to @Favna, @squee666, @pbanj, and everyone else who helped test it
• HUGE thanks to @Aurora Wright for making Luma3DS

 

[pbanj]

Yay a thread of its own

 

[SterneSchreien]

I love this.

 

[Deleted member 373057]

Fuck. I thought you were someone else because the Saber avatar is gone

Nice though, will definitely find it useful.

 

[dubbz82]

a possible suggestion? Look into optionally auto updating the updater upon boot?

 

[astronautlevel]

a possible suggestion? Look into optionally auto updating the updater upon boot?

Definitely possible to have an internal variable that it compares against a server to determine if there's a new version. I'll think about it once I've got things sorted for the next release (mostly persistent configuration).

 

[Temptress Cerise]

Guess I will be linking to this from now on~ <3

Edit: Good work on the Updater, love it. Been using it, even before it could self-update.

 

[The Catboy]

Yep, @daxtsu already told me off for forgetting about that >.>

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@Crystal the Glaceon mind testing this with your old config file? I haven't pushed the release so you'll have to download it manually.

https://mega.nz/#!355jSa5A!kk41RqGoPHlw3UrREfoNu-DdVC6js7IuFoQP6ApaNJc

Sorry for the delay, I was still at work.
Testing....
And it just gives me an error

[string "?"]:29: bad argument #1 to 'gsub' (string expected, got nil)

I noticed a thread was made, so I will bring my comment there.

 

[astronautlevel]

@Crystal the Glaceon mind testing this version?

https://mega.nz/#!ngQmRaBT!P-dWvknnDEfnsDDt6gEAy6bDNWO5rrT-9mcEM6xvp2E

 

[The Catboy]

@Crystal the Glaceon mind testing this version?

https://mega.nz/#!ngQmRaBT!P-dWvknnDEfnsDDt6gEAy6bDNWO5rrT-9mcEM6xvp2E

Good news! With my old set up, it actually properly updates my Luma3DS install.
I am going to delete my current Luma3DS launcher and see if can download a clean one without hassle.
Downloads a clean launcher as well. No added spaces or anything with my old update.cfg.

 

[astronautlevel]

Good news! With my old set up, it actually properly updates my Luma3DS install.
I am going to delete my current Luma3DS launcher and see if can download a clean one without hassle.
Downloads a clean launcher as well. No added spaces or anything with my old update.cfg.

Awesome, thanks for testing!

Pushed commits to main repo.

 

[The Catboy]

Awesome, thanks for testing!

Pushed commits to main repo.

I am always willing to test stuff because I can!

 

[MassExplosion213]

One issue I see from the screenshot..latest ver is one character too short.

 

[astronautlevel]

One issue I see from the screenshot..latest ver is one character too short.

The commit in the payload is too long :>

Basically it's because I used git rev-parse --short HEAD to get the first 7 characters of the commit, whereas Aurora and Tux used git describe to get the version and first 8 characters of the commit. I'd have to change something on my server to fix that, but it shouldn't be too hard.

 

[MattKimura]

I never noticed that there wasn't a thread for this yet. I'm a big fan of this project, it's already perfect the way it is. All it needs is a few touch ups and it'll be beautiful!
I have all my noob friends setup with this to help them keep up to date along the line.

Quality homebrew app from astronautlevel

 

[pbanj]

One issue I see from the screenshot..latest ver is one character too short.

no its correct http://astronautlevel2.github.io/Luma3DS/

 

[MassExplosion213]

The commit in the payload is too long :>

Basically it's because I used git rev-parse --short HEAD to get the first 7 characters of the commit, whereas Aurora and Tux used git describe to get the version and first 8 characters of the commit. I'd have to change something on my server to fix that, but it shouldn't be too hard.

Alright. Just making sure you knew. Otherwise? It's great!

 

[astronautlevel]

Alright. Just making sure you knew. Otherwise? It's great!

Changed some server side stuff, should look proper now.

 

[SWS90]

Nice to see this have a thread!

I recently updated from rxTools to Luma using This guide. The only problem I've run into is with StarUpdater, for some reason it's laggy. Like, it takes a second or 2 to process my button inputs.

I'm using a old 3DS. Is it because StarUpdater was made with the new powerful hardware of the new 3DS, or could this be fixed?

 

[Ricken]

Nice to see this have a thread!

I recently updated from rxTools to Luma using This guide. The only problem I've run into is with StarUpdater, for some reason it's laggy. Like, it takes a second or 2 to process my button inputs.

I'm using a old 3DS. Is it because StarUpdater was made with the new powerful hardware of the new 3DS, or could this be fixed?

lpp itself does that ime
try CHMM2 and you'll see what I mean