v13 of the POSBox image is vastly different from all the previous
versions. On top of that it contains a lot of new features. Because of
this a lot of the POSBox documentation had to be rewritten. While doing
that, we also decided to move the documentation to
odoo.com/documentation/user instead of keeping it here.
Sometimes it's useful to ssh into a posbox to quickly troubleshoot an
issue. Talking customers through port forwarding is very difficult
however. We use ngrok to solve this issue.
This implements an interface that allows a user to enter an ngrok
authentication token. After this, ngrok can be started and we should be
able to remotely connect.
Note that ngrok does NOT run by default on the posbox. It can only be
started manually by the user.
This allows people to connect the posbox to networks using a wireless
network adapter.
When plugging in a USB Wi-Fi adapter and no network cable, the posbox
will boot and host its own Access Point called "Posbox". Users can
connect their device to this network and can then connect to the posbox
the usual way.
An interface for has been provided that also allows users to instruct
the posbox to connect to a different Wi-Fi network. This is useful when
the client is not running Odoo locally.
It is also possible to make this configuration persistent. With a
persistent Wi-Fi network configuration, the posbox will always try to
connect to the specified network after a reboot.
Attempts have been made to make the Wi-Fi connection as robust as
possible. Upon connection loss, the posbox will automatically attempt to
reconnect.
This commit contains the patches from the now obsolete 'posbox'
branch. These patches were written by Martin Donies (@mdo-odoo) and
Frédéric Van der Essen (@fvdsn).
Rebranding has been done in:
- data/demo files
- html templates
- help notices
- comments
- logger messages
- and other various messages
(Commit taken from odoo-dev:8.0-improve-openerp-odoo-rlu at rev 7deaa08)
Closes#1260
Joren Van Onder
Erwin van der Ploeg
Fabien Pinckaers
rlu-odoo
Frédéric van der Essen