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I understand that a developing product needs updates. Sometimes these updates require changes to what data is expected for an element of the settings config. As a customer, when a firmware update i...
- Give us a tool to download the config in a human-readable format. I don’t care if it is TXT, CSV, XLS, or whatever… Just give us something we can work with.
You have this already. Telnet to the router, login, then enter "config show". Dumps out key-value pairs for all config settings.
Along with item 1 above, we need to be able to upload this human-readable settings file back to the device.
This can be done also - the command "config set <key>="<value>" can set any of the values.
I have scripts that automatically dump key settings to text files, then my scripts use sed to convert those files into a series of "config set" commands into a new script file. Effectively allows me to backup my DHCP reservations, device names, device models & types, access control settings, WiFi SSIDs, email settings, UPNP settings, and restore them. I am assuming of course that they "key" names will not change between firmware updates, but I think that's a reasonably safe assumption.
I also agree that your other options should be provided as well, and it would certainly be nice to have the settings exported in a format that doesn't need to be massaged to be used to restore the settings.