Installing Clover: Error communicating with github!

[bill-fischer]

Hello. I am a new user of gibMacOS, so apologies if this is a known issue. I have followed the steps and am trying to build a USB using recovery media for Catalina. Everything seems to be working fine with MakeInstall.bat, but when it gets to "Installing Clover" it stops and presents the error message: "Error communicating with github!"

Any ideas? I have tried using a different PC and with both Admin and non-admin execution of the bat file. Any assistance appreciated! Thanks.

[20Koen02]

I have this exact same issue. I have done this process several times now. Maybe something changed with the github url it's downloading from?

[corpnewt]

I won't be able to look into this for a bit - but I'll update when I get a chance to.

-CorpNewt

[bill-fischer]

Thank you @corpnewt ! Appreciate the feedback.

[20Koen02]

@corpnewt @bill-fischer I worked out the issue. The latest release of cloverbootloader doesn't contain any assets (the compiled code)
@bill-fischer for now, you can manually edit the code to use the previous version of clover which does contain the assets. Edit MakeInstall.py and replace the url of the self.clover_url variable in the __init__() function with https://api.github.com/repos/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader/releases/20627694 (Release v2.5k-5096 of clover)

@corpnewt you know what to do. Check for assets and if none check the previous versions

[bill-fischer]

Wow, thanks, @20Koen02 . Never would have been able to do that myself. Thanks again!

[corpnewt]

Seems the latest one works now - but I also bulletproofed the code a bit in this commit. Thanks for letting me know and being patient.

-CorpNewt

[bill-fischer]

@corpnewt thanks again, and thanks for creating such great software!

[bill-fischer]

Hi. seems to be happening again.

[corpnewt]

I just ran a quick test with the code MakeInstall.py uses (as I'm on macOS right now with py 3.7.5), and it located the download link just fine:

>>> import downloader as dl
>>> d = dl.Downloader()
>>> import json
>>> clover_url = "https://api.github.com/repos/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader/releases"
>>> json_data = d.get_string(clover_url,False)
>>> j_list = json.loads(json_data)
>>> for j in j_list:
...     dl_link = next((x.get("browser_download_url", None) for x in j.get("assets", []) if x.get("browser_download_url", "").lower().endswith(".lzma")), None)
...     if dl_link:
...         break
... 
>>> dl_link
'https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader/releases/download/5097/CloverISO-5097.tar.lzma'

May be a network issue on your side - or an outdated version of py that's being rejected by github?

-CorpNewt

[bill-fischer]

OK. Yeah. Makes sense. The error message is different this time. Just says it's unable to download. Regardless, thanks for checking it so quickly. Again, the software is great.