particle firmware-version command

[joegoggins]

On the latest firmware (0.4.4), if you type "v" over serial to a Photon, you'll get something like like: "System Firmware: 0.4.4", it would be great to encapsulate this via the CLI with command like particle firmware-version.

Additionally, if you type "s" over serial to a Photon, you'll get a bunch of .json illustrating the detailed versions and dependencies information. It would be cool to expose this detailed information via a --details switch to the particle firmware-version command as pretty json. This switch would also make a reference to the documentation that helps decypher this detailed info.

This feature enhancement is related to #85, I'd vote to build this one first, and then generalize it later to accommodate to the other broader particle serial terminal feature proposal.

[kennethlimcp]

@joegoggins suggesting particle device version with alias particle device v for this under the verb device command. Sounds good?

[dmiddlecamp]

can we just include this as part of identify ?

[kennethlimcp]

particle identify? Hmmm... How should we format all of them properly as one data set then? JSON?

[dmiddlecamp]

nah, just pretty output, for example:

Your DeviceID is: abc123
Your system firmware version is: 0.4.4

[kennethlimcp]

But s is not pretty... ^^ settles i and v

I also need to find out what output returns when you hit v on older system firmware since that is only introduced in.... 0.4.4

[dmiddlecamp]

I imagine we'll be adding 'system-firmware version' to the device attributes endpoint on the API in the next sprint or two, as well as the raw version info for the system-parts / platforms. I think that will help parse the module json client-side if needed as well.

[kennethlimcp]

We should get that info off the device as much as possible for accuracy? Like i did particle update and i want to check immediately so might be good to just pull off serial instead of relying on cloud info.

Also, I want to know my current device info when working offline without a ☁️ so it should all be pulled from device