Hello, i manage about 100 mikrotik router. now with ROS 7 long-term is time to update all from 6 to 7. i’m updated all from 6 to 7.20.7 and all works fine. i DON’T use mass update, because if have a bug or router i MUST run on all customer… so for now i connect to first mikrotik, update. wait t…

I don't think OP is setting anything. Firmware update is not covered by device-mode.

Correct steps are something like: Prepare a upgrade server wit all needed .npk, and extract all /etc/*.fwf from each .npk for each platform with something like 7-zip, etc. Paste a script in terminal that do Like suggested from @mkx do /system/routerboard/settings/set auto-upgrade=yes connect to…

Or alternatively paste a script like this below, before upgrading: /system routerboard settings set auto-upgrade=yes /system scheduler remove [find where name=autoreboot] add name=autoreboot policy=reboot,read,write start-time=startup on-event="\r\ \n:delay 20s\r\ \n/system scheduler remove…

If you want to get adventurous, you could do what I do and leave the script in place to cover future updates. /system scheduler add name=autoUpgrade policy=reboot,read,write start-time=startup on-event=":delay 15s\ \n/system/routerboard\ \n:local routerBoard [get]\ \nsettings\ \n:if…

sorry, yes i plan to setup a scheduler on startup for future updates… really i will use this /system scheduler add comment=UpgradeFirmware name=UpgradeFirmware on-event=":if ([/system routerboard get current-firmware] != [/system routerboard get upgrade-firmware]) do={\r \n:execute {/system rou…

Leaving something that potentially causes your router board to reboot endlessly is a truly terrible idea, from ANY perspective... Note that the first thing my script does (after the reboot) is delete itself to avoid any future complications... for example, in your script, if RouterOS syntax change…

Use my before/during upgrade, and except the problems for v6->v7 you do not have any problems...

Hm. I would have thought an invalid element would cause the script to error out, but apparently not. Thanks for the observation. I'm still thinking this can be mitigated by verifying the array elements and increasing the delay time to allow for manually stopping the script before it runs. The sweet …

[image] ghostinthenet: I'm still thinking this can be mitigated by... Honestly, my solution is precise and does its job without any frills... If the upgrade is done "by hand" or automatically, all it takes is for the automation to insert the script BEFORE the update, and you'll definitely n…

I see the point. That said, complexity is a matter of perspective. Your solution is precise and elegant, but requires an external process to be invoked every time, which adds complexity of a sort. Mine is self-contained and doesn't require external automation but adds local complexity and, as you po…

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infabo February 13, 2026, 10:02am 21

Happened today.