Because that service communicates with Asus' servers, not mine.
No, and I have no plan to ever offer such a feature, sorry. I don't have the resources to ensure the reliability and security of such a service that could potentially get hijacked, and compromise tens of thousands of routers. A large company such as Asus does.
That explains it - thank you!
I am beginning to question even the security of Asus offering such a feature. To me, there are alot of things that can go wrong with automatic updates. Then the user doesn't notice until the last minute, and no one knows what actually happen to break things at this point. There are too many variables that can go wrong in an automated upgrade process including network instability, corrupted downloads, and not to mention if the user doesn't realize an automated update is taking place when they hard restart the router. Too many unknowns for me to trust it. This is one of the reasons I choose to use your firmware @RMerlin because you don't have an automated process.
This is a good response! I love it. Or maybe a feature on the router that sends an email report when the router detects new updates available. Then the user can update at their leisure using the method of their choice.
Diversion already has it. Under communication, there's a firmware update notification option.
I know. I was talking about a firmware level adaptation as opposed to firmware level automated update process. To me, this is a compromise for not offering an automated process. I personally do not support automated update processes because they lack the human element of detection. While humans are highly error prone and highly fallible, we also have an ability to detect failures when processes are not fully automated. We can see what is going on. With fully automated, we are in the dark especially with a process that can brick the router.
They also offer RSS feeds for that (no registration required).
Which manual checks (that cannot be automated) do you perform before flashing firmware?
Review of user feedback for common threads that might affect my network configuration.
Apart from the reasons that @RMerlin has for not offering this feature, I am of the opinion and even more so in a router, not to be constantly updated, except for something truly justified, such as a vulnerability fixed or a bug fixed, or as in the case of version 388 that included the vpn wireguard, but beyond that, in production equipment, I do not usually recommend to update it constantly.
Ah, yes, good one!
As per RMerlin, the removal of the usb isn't required.
Happy to be corrected. I've just seen so many posts on these forums recommending it on threads with upgrade problems that it's become part my my upgrade process purely from a risk avoidance perspective.
Best to subscribe to the RSS feed at Sourceforge instead, as I don't issue "Github releases".
By security, I mean the risk of malicious hijacking. In addition to Asus having an actual team of sysadmins to monitor their servers, their firmware images are also signed with an RSA key.
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