Vendor database no longer updates

[b-m-e]

The script to update vendors database from ieee creates zero-length files.

Reason seems to be that ieee moved the files and created a redirect that curl per default does not follow.
Solution is to add flag -L to curl.

So in ~/pialert/back/update_vendors.sh

Change lines 27-37 to:

sudo curl -L $1 -# -O http://standards-oui.ieee.org/iab/iab.csv
sudo curl -L $1 -# -O http://standards-oui.ieee.org/iab/iab.txt
 
sudo curl -L $1 -# -O http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui28/mam.csv
sudo curl -L $1 -# -O http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui28/mam.txt
 
sudo curl -L $1 -# -O http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui36/oui36.csv
sudo curl -L $1 -# -O http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui36/oui36.txt
 
sudo curl -L $1 -# -O http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
sudo curl -L $1 -# -O http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.txt

[ch-ris]

I would actually recommend using proper https links instead.

[iamenderst]

sed -i 's/http:/https:/' ~/pialert/back/update_vendors.sh

[AubreyKloppers]

Thank you - Adding https to the url did the job 100%! Only thing is, I see that when you do an upgrade it gets overwritten...

[FerC10110]

"Download Public Listing" links broken

https://standards.ieee.org/products-programs/regauth/

[FerC10110]

"Download Public Listing" links broken

https://standards.ieee.org/products-programs/regauth/

or blocked my ip

[ogghi]

Seems not working here either.
But in the current update_vendors.sh they work?
https://standards-oui.ieee.org/iab/iab.csv

[dougie23fresh]

Please update the curl links to use -LO to follow redirections

sudo curl $1 -# -LO http://standards-oui.ieee.org/iab/iab.csv
sudo curl $1 -# -LO http://standards-oui.ieee.org/iab/iab.txt

sudo curl $1 -# -LO http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui28/mam.csv
sudo curl $1 -# -LO http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui28/mam.txt

sudo curl $1 -# -LO http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui36/oui36.csv
sudo curl $1 -# -LO http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui36/oui36.txt

sudo curl $1 -# -LO http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
sudo curl $1 -# -LO http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.txt

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1036484/curl-o-stores-an-empty-file-though-wget-works-well

[reneknuvers]

Last comment works. But I think it would be better to reference the https-links here:

sudo curl $1 -# -LO https://standards-oui.ieee.org/iab/iab.csv
sudo curl $1 -# -LO https://standards-oui.ieee.org/iab/iab.txt

sudo curl $1 -# -LO https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui28/mam.csv
sudo curl $1 -# -LO https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui28/mam.txt

sudo curl $1 -# -LO https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui36/oui36.csv
sudo curl $1 -# -LO https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui36/oui36.txt

sudo curl $1 -# -LO https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
sudo curl $1 -# -LO https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.txt

[jokob-sk]

If you want to have things fixed or added, you should switch to one of the forks. The main project has not been maintained for over 2 years.
For example:
https://github.com/leiweibau/Pi.Alert
https://github.com/jokob-sk/Pi.Alert