Install timed out / Unknown method "install" for category "/dev"

[milkpirate]

Hey,

just got telnet (root) access to my device webOS 7.3.1-42 03.33.80 (43UQ80009LB), and tried the automated install, which resulted in

webOS TV 7.3.1 LGwebOSTV

/ # 
/ # curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/webosbrew/webos-homebrew-channel/main/tools/install.sh | sh -
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  1449  100  1449    0     0   1971      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1971
[ ] Downloading manifest...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:05 --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:05 --:--:--     0
100   461  100   461    0     0     68      0  0:00:06  0:00:06 --:--:--     0
[ ] Downloading https://github.com/webosbrew/webos-homebrew-channel/releases/latest/download/org.webosbrew.hbchannel_0.6.3_all.ipk...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 1449k  100 1449k    0     0   224k      0  0:00:06  0:00:06 --:--:--  349k
/tmp/hbchannel.ipk: OK
[ ] Installing...
[!] Install timed out
/ #

Manual install resulted in:

/tmp # wget https://github.com/webosbrew/webos-homebrew-channel/releases/download/v0.6.3/org.webosbrew.hbchannel_0.6.3_all.ipk
Connecting to github.com (140.82.121.4:443)
Connecting to objects.githubusercontent.com (185.199.109.133:443)
saving to 'org.webosbrew.hbchannel_0.6.3_all.ipk'
org.webosbrew.hbchan 100% |**********************************************************************************************************| 1449k  0:00:00 ETA
'org.webosbrew.hbchannel_0.6.3_all.ipk' saved
/tmp # luna-send-pub -i 'luna://com.webos.appInstallService/dev/install' '{"id":"com.ares.defaultName","ipkUrl":"/tmp/org.webosbrew.hbchannel_0.6.3_all.ip
k","subscribe":true}'
{"returnValue":false,"errorCode":-1,"errorText":"Unknown method \"install\" for category \"/dev\""}
{"methodName":"install","returnValue":false,"errorCode":-1,"errorText":"install has been disconnected."}

**hangs here**

^C
/tmp #

What am I doing wrong? Is there something missing?

[throwaway96]

That method is only available when dev mode is enabled. So you need to create enable_devmode and restart appinstalld so it notices.

rm -rf /var/luna/preferences/devmode_enabled && mkdir -p /var/luna/preferences/devmode_enabled
restart appinstalld

[milkpirate]

You may want to add that to the documentation.

[throwaway96]

Perhaps, but it's not strictly related to Homebrew Channel. So far we've considered it part of the rooting process, and it's been included in every exploit/guide we've created.