Rework the update process

Actions/actions.py

@@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ def processAction(self, msg):
                     else:
                         self.data.ui_queue1.put("Alert", "Alert", "No GCode file loaded.")
             elif msg["data"]["command"] == "update":
-                if not self.data.releaseManager.update(msg["data"]["arg"]):
-                    self.data.ui_queue1.put("Alert", "Alert", "Error with updating webcontrol.")
-                return "Shutdown"
+                # Errors handled during update so only reboot on success.
+                if self.data.releaseManager.update(msg["data"]["arg"]):
+                    return "Shutdown"
             elif msg["data"]["command"] == "cutTriangularCalibrationPattern":
                 if not self.data.triangularCalibration.cutTriangularCalibrationPattern():
                     self.data.ui_queue1.put("Alert", "Alert", "Error with cutting triangular calibration pattern.")
@@ -1989,7 +1989,7 @@ def checkForLatestPyRelease(self):
                 except:
                     print("error parsing tagname")
             print(latest)
-            if latest>self.data.pyInstallCurrentVersion:
+            if latest>self.data.pyInstallCurrentVersionNumber:
                 if latestRelease is not None:
                     print(latestRelease.tag_name)
                     assets = latestRelease.get_assets()

Background/messageProcessor.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def start(self):
             # check for available update file every hour.
             if time.time()-self.data.lastChecked > 60*60:
                 self.data.lastChecked = time.time()
-                self.data.releaseManager.checkForLatestPyRelease()
+                self.data.releaseManager.checkLatestRelease(True)
                 self.data.helpManager.checkForUpdatedHelp()
             # process messages while queue is not empty.  Everything else is on hold until queue is cleared.
             while (  not self.data.message_queue.empty() ):  # if there is new data to be read

DataStructures/data.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from DataStructures.uiQueue import UIQueue
 from config.config import Config
 import queue
-
+import datetime
 
 class Data:
     """
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ class Data:
     Version Updater
     '''
     lastChecked = -1
-    pyInstallCurrentVersion = 0.94
+    pyInstallCurrentVersionNumber = 0.94
+    pyInstallCurrentVersionDate = datetime.datetime(2020, 5, 21)
     pyInstallUpdateAvailable = False
     pyInstallUpdateBrowserUrl = ""
     pyInstallUpdateVersion = 0