Update Available Icon

[McCoyCOREUSA]

It would be helpful if in the upper-left corner where the version is shown, to have an icon or the text "Update Available" if an update is available.

It might be good to have it specify if it's a branch update or a major OS update.

[AGFazio]

I'll second that. It would be great addition.

[patdelaney]

I believe we used to have an alert in very early versions of FPP. I don't remember the exact reason we removed it, but the following issues come to mind.

• for people that don't want to update, the alert was always there.
• formatting mobile devices

If you go to help->About all the information about any updated is there.

[dkulp]

The main issue is performance. Checking GitHub for updates is expensive. When you go to the about page, we can trigger it once, but it's certainly not something to run every time the status page is loaded (or worse; on refresh).

I'm wondering if we could add a GitHub action or something that would record the latest git hash for each of the main branches into a json file and auto publish that someplace that the browser could retrieve. Wouldn't have any impact on the FPP device, just the browser. Hmmm.. @computergeek1507 - you are way more familiar with GH actions than I am, do you know if something like that may be doable relatively easily?

[McCoyCOREUSA]

Even if it could check once on start of FPP. Then once there is an update available, store it locally and display an upgrade available icon. Then, until an update is performed, there is no need to check again. Further, the check can be limited to once per day. There is no need to check Github every load or whatever. Just once a day until an update is available, then it doesn't check again until updated.

[ghormann]

@dkulp I've done something in the past where we had on Github repo generate a file and check it into another with each commit. Could do this against https://github.com/FalconChristmas/FalconChristmas.github.io Would need an API token that could commit to the other repo.

The other option is a cron action that runs daily and if there are any changes, updates the main repo.

[darylc]

The FPP developers discussed this, is not clear it is practical to do this, thats why it was initially removed - but Greg has volunteered to investigate options for a scalable solution.

[ghormann]

I'm keeping this open WHile upgrading on the same branch work, and it detects newer branches, it needs to change the target URL when doing a branch upgrade to something like ViewReleaseNotes('7.5');"