Is there a way to easily extract the firmware version (or remove the need to supply the firmware version when using the API)?

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I would like to build a GitHub Action to upload product firmware whenever a new release is pushed to github using the API endpoint. However, it looks like the difficult part will be supplying the version. When uploading via the web UI, it auto-fills this attribute in with the next available firmware version. Is there a way to bypass this? I suppose an alternative would be to first perform an API call and get the previous release version and then auto-increment? Any guidance would be appreciated!

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Normally I’d think you could be checking this entry in the latest branch

However, I would have expected to see v1.5.2 but in that branch it’s currently v1.5.1

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Just to clarify, you’re building your app using GitHub actions and you’d like it to automatically publish to the cloud when a release is created?

And you’re having trouble keeping track of PRODUCT_VERSION?

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Yes, sorry for misspeaking. I meant the PRODUCT_VERSION, not the firmware version, as that isn’t required to POST a new product firmware. So I would need: version, title, binary, productIdOrSlug, description, and mandatory. The binary shouldn’t be too difficult to identify, the productIdOrSlug can be set in env, and the title can be autogenerated. I think the version is the only one I’m not 100% sure about. Currently, my approach would be to first make an API call to /v1/products/:productIdOrSlug/firmware and get the most recent version and +1 to it. Not sure if that will cause any major issues though…

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In my experience (there are much more knowledgeable Particle cloud mechanics in here) it only matters that the PRODUCT_VERSION increases, otherwise it won’ t update any devices with it.

– that is, devices will always prefer the firmware with the largest PRODUCT_VERSION.

Is there an issue with keeping a counter in the build system? As long as all your builds are released through Github, that should keep your counter consistent wouldn’t it?

Edit: Maybe I’m missing something that’s been added more recently, but don’t you need to know PRODUCT_VERSION at compile time?

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