Shark Jack cable won't download Payloads with UPDATE_PAYLOADS

[Sgt.Foose]

Hi all,

 

Just received my new Shark Jack Cable. It's connected to an Android Phone with a terminal app.

When booted, plugged into LAN and in ARMING MODE, I used NETMODE DHCP_CLIENT and then ping -c3 8.8.8.8 (success ping).

Then typed UPDATE_PAYLOADS and I get this message:

 

Downloading payloads repository...

tar: can't open '/tmp'

payloads-sync.tar.gz': no such file or directory

cp: can't stat '/tmp/payloads-sync/sharkjack-payloads-master/payloads/library': no such file or directory.

Successfully synchronized payloads repository.

root@shark:/#

 

LIST_PAYLOADS

Payload library is missing. Run UPDATE_PAYLOADS to sync the payload library.

 

Device: shark

Firmware version: 1.2.0

web ui version: 1.0.1

[dark_pyrro]

is the date and time correct on the Shark?

[Sgt.Foose]

Nope.... 🥴

 

What command to use to update?

[dark_pyrro]

date

(for example)

[Sgt.Foose]

Yes this will display the current time and year (2001). But how to update?

[dark_pyrro]

it's basic Linux and you can find how with a simple search, you use the date command with options/parameters to set the date, such as

date -s "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss"
 

[Sgt.Foose]

Thank you sir! This fixed my problem!

[dark_pyrro]

It's because the URL used in the UPDATE_PAYLOADS script file is https based and curl just throws an error back (that you can't see since it's set up to execute silently) if the date/time is wrong which results in the fact that the tar.gz file isn't downloaded which is why you get those errors. The script file can't really handle that though and it gets a bit confusing since it says that things are successful.

[Sgt.Foose]

After a power cycle, the date is back:

root@shark:/# date
Mon Aug 23 19:33:38 UTC 2021
 

Any way to improve this?

[dark_pyrro]

it's because the Shark hasn't got any RTC so it will revert to something it knows (which isn't the correct date or the date you last set it to). If it has got internet connection (which isn't always the case) you could run ntpd to get the date and time from the internet. But if it's offline, it will behave like that (i.e. revert to that date you posted which most likely is linked to when the firmware was created since 1.2.0 has that specific date stamp on files and directories).

[Sgt.Foose]

Ah ok makes sense