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Add Serial Number to Avahi Service for Board Deduplication#48
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I didn't figure out that we needed to add another sudoers file for this feature, which I would avoid to do it. So I think we should change the approach here, and we could instead do that in a systemd unit that is triggered only on the first boot, e.g.,https://github.com/arduino/arduino-app-cli/blob/main/debian/arduino-app-cli/etc/systemd/system/arduino-burn-bootloader.service.
The Serial number of the board should not change, so we can do it just the first time you flash the board, and in there, you have all the permission to patch the Avahi service.
Motivation
A board connected via both USB and Network currently shows up as two separate devices in the board list. This makes it difficult for a client application to know it is the same physical board.
We need a way to "deduplicate" these entries by providing a common identifier, allowing the client to show just one entry for that board.
Change description
A simple approach is to add the board's serial number to its Avahi service file. This change will be made at runtime when the EnableNetworkMode function is executed.
Specifically, we will add a new containing the serial number (e.g., serial_number=YOUR_SERIAL) to the board's .service file.
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