WIP - Add small script to check if lineageos image works for device

Author: tsterbak

scripts/check-image-for-device.py

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+"""Script to check if a given lineageOS image works for a connected device."""
+from os import device_encoding
+from typing import Dict
+from subprocess import check_output, STDOUT
+
+
+def get_device_info() -> Dict[str, str]:
+    """Read the device properties with adb."""
+    # read properties
+    device_properties = check_output(
+        ['adb', 'shell', 'getprop'], stderr=STDOUT).decode()
+    # clean and structure the properties into dict
+    properties_dict  = dict([
+        prop.replace("[", "").replace("]", "").split(":", 1) 
+        for prop in device_properties.split('\n') if len(prop) > 2
+    ])
+    # filter down to some relevant properties used for identifying the device
+    relevant_keys = ("ro.product.manufacturer", "ro.product.model", "ro.product.name")
+    return {key: properties_dict[key].strip() for key in relevant_keys}
+
+
+def image_works(image_path: str, device_code: str) -> bool:
+    """Determine if the image works or not."""
+    raw_text = check_output(['cat', f'{image_path}'], stderr=STDOUT).decode(encoding='latin')
+    return device_code in raw_text
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    device_info = get_device_info()
+    print(device_info)
+
+    #image_path = "images/samsung-galaxy-a3/lineage-16.0-20190908-UNOFFICIAL-a3y17lte.zip"
+    image_path = "images/samsung-galaxy-a3/lineage-17.1-20200830-UNOFFICIAL-a3y17lte.zip"
+    works = image_works(image_path, device_code=device_info['ro.product.name'])
+    if works:
+        print("This image works for your device!")
+    else:
+        print("This image will not work for your device...")