bq tablets should join bq warranty system

[John McAleely]

BQ uses an online database to manage warranty information, as part of their customer service.

All their devices join this system, and to date, Ubuntu devices are operating without this.

Adding to the phones in the market is probably a bit late now, but for the recently launched tablets, BQ request they join this system.

The device needs to make a GET request for the following endpoint:

For testing:
http://devices-staging.bq.com/api/isAlive/$serial_number/$ota_version/1

For production:
http://devices.bq.com/api/isAlive/${SERIAL}/${OTAVERSION}/1

I believe the $serial_number is available from android properties, and $ota_version is available from system-image-cli

The request should only be made over wifi networks.

No user interface or interaction is required. BQ's android devices do this daily, which seems a bit excessive. Perhaps we should do it after a reboot, since OTA's regularly trigger reboots.

[John McAleely (john.mcaleely)]

Here's the implementation, which will be added to the custom tarball for the ubuntu-touch/*/bq-aquaris-pd.en channels

[John McAleely (john.mcaleely)]

Ticket for landing this: https://requests.ci-train.ubuntu.com/#/ticket/1380

[John McAleely (john.mcaleely)]

As noted in #1, the opening comment was originally documenting the test url:

http://devices-staging.bq.com/api/isAlive/$serial_number/$ota_version/1

And we need to ship the production URL (#1 already is):

http://devices.bq.com/api/isAlive/${SERIAL}/${OTAVERSION}/1

[John McAleely (john.mcaleely)]

Landed in rc-proposed last night in the end:

https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg20535.html