So, I feel kind of dumb because I have deleted dependencies before. But I can’t find them and I’ve been at this for an hour. I need to roast some coffee!!!
I’m on Linux Mint.
I’m screwed right now with v4. Nothing I do can make it connect. Falling back to v3… 
(yes v3 connects and WORKS)
I’ve been tooling along for a good while now with the software set to NOT UPDATE. And yet today it’s running V4.11.10. WHY???
After fighting with it for a few hours, I finally got v4.10 back running and connecting without it updating. I found my earler post about the connection problem and followed the steps I used then. They didn’t work the first two times for some reason.
All I want to do is roast coffee. It shouldn’t be this hard.
Hey,
The main version is not disable-able for updating. It does not update very often (we haven’t forced an update in over a year). I would expect your v4.10 will auto update again since it happens in the background. We only force updates when there are very important fixes or security patches for the broader cohort.
I believe I found what is causing your connection issue on updates (the libusb driver is hanging on to the resource and not cleaning up properly when it shuts down), but this will require another update. Maybe you would be willing to test for me?
Apologies for the issues that some of you have faced.
Thanks!
I might be willing to test some things out. I’ve had some issues getting roastime to run properly and connect on Linux as well running a pretty standard Ubuntu distro on a intel nuc.
I had some connection issues and the dependencies installataion script always failed. That was weird. How hard can it be? It’s just a couple of .deb files that it needs to make sure are there and/or grab? So I found the installation script from aillio buried somewhere in a tmp folder and tried running it myself, but that also failed. So I went through that script line by line and ran the commands and then it seemed to work. I could connect to the R2!
But firmware updates continued to always hang, and it unpredictably drops the connection sometimes. This actually ruined a roast as the connection dropped during a roast. Annoying because I like looking at the data, but I just keep roasting by hand when that happens. Except this time it also suddenly reconnected and roastime hijacked the roaster and turned it back to standby mode!
The connection issues have made me not even try to use the computer interface any more because it is more trouble than it is worth, so if you have ideas on how to get that working more effectively I am all ears.