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Legacy versions of Domoticz for reinstall

Posted: Wednesday 28 May 2025 18:55
by Toulon7559
Today having experienced a total failure of upgrade to Domoticz_2025.1 on a series of Raspberries,
perhaps suggestion to have available for user_download readytogo images of some latest, superstable, legacy Domoticz_versions as occurring at 'thresholds'?
Easy/convenient as references for safe rollback by non-specialist_users.

Domoticz_2023.2 was last version safe for running on RPI0_1.1 or ARM61-processor
Domoticz_2024.7 seems last version faultlessly running on OS upto/incl. Bookworm & OpenSSL1.0

:( Accidents & mistakes occur:
With easy&ready references it is possible to make a fresh reinstall on broken legacy configurations without 'fiddling' with available brethern and makeshifts, or with recompliation from source.

Not a new idea, and for Domoticz for compatible configuration might be linked to the weblink below:
Raspberry OS is available in such way.

Re: Legacy versions of Domoticz for reinstall

Posted: Wednesday 28 May 2025 23:32
by waltervl
You can always revert back to the version before you updated as a backup is made before updating: https://wiki.domoticz.com/Raspberry_Pi# ... ect_update

Also in the GitHub repository you can download the released builds in the release tag. As this is a manual action not all releases are fully uploaded all times.

Also you can look at the docker builds as those are also an archive of released images.

Re: Legacy versions of Domoticz for reinstall

Posted: Thursday 29 May 2025 19:45
by Toulon7559
Walter,

Thinking of one type of accident (= SD-card getting corrupted) your suggested rollback-method as safeguard requires that that last, big backup-file is stored outside the SD-card before the actual upgrade is performed (or similar action):
;-) not for the 'simple' user.
By means of Domoticz itself making external backup of the file domoticz.db is not enough for complete restauration.

Re: Legacy versions of Domoticz for reinstall

Posted: Thursday 29 May 2025 20:04
by waltervl
For that one kind of accident a SD card is failing you better have a full backup available.
Lost of info on the net how to do that.
Also when to create those full backups and make smaller delta backups.