Bypass Electron CLI OTA Flash Confirmation? [Solved - YES!]

[chrissy]

Is there any way to bypass the confirmation required by CLI when flashing OTA? I’m using Visual Studio Code and this tutorial to create compile and flash tasks and I can’t enter any additional input once the tasks are run. Here’s the confirmation I’m trying to bypass:

I’ve tried piping an echo of the value I have to enter after flashing (0.005) and I tried to run it as a second command using && after a delay. Here is my tasks.json file:

Additional info: using Visual Studio Code 1.6.1 and Particle 1.7.0 on Windows 7.

Thanks!

[ScruffR]

I’d comment out that part in the CLI scripts.

[chrissy]

Where exactly can I find the CLI scripts?

[Moors7]

Seeing as it’s something you’ve installed on your computer, you’ll find them in their respective directory. Depending on how you installed them, look for either a ‘particle’ directory, or check your NPM directory for the particle-cli. I believe mine were in C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules

[chrissy]

Got it to work, thanks!

In case anyone else is running into this problem, locate the file in C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\particle-cli\commands\CloudCommands.js. Modify the _promptForOta function as such:

I commented out from console.log() to the end of inquirer.prompt and kept only the resolve({list:[filename]}) line.

[KyleG]

Thanks for the help @Moors7 @ScruffR!

[kubark42]

UPDATE: @chrissy’s fix has slightly changed.

• The file has moved. On Windows, it is now at C:\Users[name]\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\particle-cli\commands\CloudCommands.js
• The required change is a little more complex. Instead of just commenting out code, the entire section in the brackets starting at https://github.com/particle-iot/particle-cli/blob/5f2669228ecf493e786f31e09254d4868d428251/src/cmd/cloud.js#L219 needs to be replaced by just resolve(newFileMapping);.

I think it’d be nice to have an override, like an extension to the existing --force flag or maybe a new flag like --ota-yes, to force CLI to ignore this blocking check.