How to check for new versions without running the update?

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If there is one or more update available the command pihole -up shows

[i] Pi-hole Core:	update available
[i] FTL:		    update available
[i] Web Interface:	update available

...but it also starts an update.

Is there a way or command to get the above information without updating the installed components?

My intention is to redirect the three lines to /etc/motd

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pihole -v

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Not really :slight_smile:

Pi-hole version is v3.3-65-g295ac49 (Latest: v3.3)
AdminLTE version is v3.2.1-80-g517fa24f (Latest: v3.3)
FTL version is vDev-a26da52 (Latest: v3.0)

Now I still don't know if this are the current versions in GitHub (FTLDNS branch).

An additional parameter for pihole -up would be great. Something like "check for updates and exit".

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OK, I see what you mean now. Nothing like is in place right now. I don't think it would be too difficult though. Just a matter of doing it.

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@mibere I simply visit the web GUI to check for updates :wink:

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Just an aside for decoding the version string: v3.3-65-g295ac49 means version 3.3 plus 65 commits to the code with a git identifying hash of 295ac49. (See attached, this is the FTLDNS branch, note the Latest commit that matches the hash.)

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This is because we are based off of git for version control, but there's some discussion on changing that to another type of release. The (Latest: v3.3) is indicating the 'tag' of the git release. It's just cleaner to use tags, but in reality the v3.3 release is v3.3-0-g1e87850 (sometimes the -0- is missing, but that gets in to the internals of git and GitHub.)

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It would be ok for me if there is a "Update available" hint in the web interface even if on a development branch (FTLDNS). I could work with

curl -s http://192.168.x.x/admin/ | grep -i "Update available"
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pihole -up
...
Update Complete!

Current Pi-hole version is v3.3-75-g82d5afe
Current AdminLTE version is v3.3-58-g89090261
Current FTL version is vDev-1ca6b58
[10 April 2018]

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Is there an issue that you need assistance with? I'm not sure what you are asking or reporting.

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No issue. All services appear to be running fine on original Raspberry Pi Model B after update.

However, as per the the topic heading, I was not able to determine whether there was an update available by looking at the web interface as suggested by Nero355.

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You're right! It would just be a matter of passing though an extra flag. e.g pihole -up --check and then wrapping this section of code with something like:

if [[ ! ${1} == "--check" ]];then
   if [[ "${FTL_update}" == true || "${core_update}" == true || "${web_update}" == true ]]; then
    ${PI_HOLE_FILES_DIR}/automated\ install/basic-install.sh --reconfigure --unattended || \
         echo -e "${basicError}" && exit 1
  fi
fi
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Would be cool if you have some time to implement this :slight_smile:

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In progress...

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Thanks, works as expected.