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 Posted: Sunday Aug 24th, 2014 06:10 am
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The beta firmware 7 .054 has the following changes
  1. Added new command "cc" to echo everything after "cc" eg "cc1234abcd" command will echo back "cc1234abcd" for testing purposes
  2. Allow F!ffSS Flag change command where ss = 3  for toggle, eg F!0103 will toggle the state of flag 1
  3. UCM/ETH03 SNTP feature for internet Time sync will not give OK reply when it is not logged in

BUG
UCM 7.054 will not be able tp upgrade its own firmware. Please do NOT upgrade to UCM 7.054 and if you have done so, do not try to upgrade (or downgrade) the firmware until further instrutions

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 Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2014 04:31 pm
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We have just detected a serious bug in UCM 7.054 (beta)

If the UCM is upgraded to this firmware, the UCM will NOT be able to upgrade its own firmware again

Do NOT upgrade to UCM 7.054 and if you have done so, Do NOT try to upgrade firmware any further

We will check if it is OK to upgrade the UCM firmware via another UCM. More information will be provided

The beta firmware has been removed from the server


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 Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2014 05:56 pm
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Yep I trashed the UCM/Eth3 on my test rig!

Presume it cant connect anymore it the issue right?

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The ucm with 7.054 will work until you try to upgrade it again, so do not upgrade it by the normal method
You can use another ucm with the firmware upgrade cable to upgrade the ucm 7.054



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Unless that other UCM is also on 7.054?

What happens then?



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No problem
The 7.054 only has a problem when it has to upgrade its own firmware

It has no problem with uograding another ucm



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No problem
The 7.054 only has a problem when it has to upgrade its own firmware

It has no problem with uograding another ucm



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Yes I just reverted both my 7.054 UCMs back to 7.049 using the programme cable method without a hitch!  Phew!

I guess you have to slip in these problematic upgrades if only just to remind us once, every so often, as to how lucky we are normally not to have to faff with the programming method anymore.  I even had to read the manual as so long since I've done one! 

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Is there likely to be a recovery for those of us with one UCM only on 7.054?



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Do you have another UCM by any chance?

We are looking at how to solve it. but do not try to upgrade the ucm firmware using the same UCM. Using another UCM should be no problem



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Whilst it wont help the scenario this time around,  could you make use of the U3 eeprom in the future and change the  upgrade process so it saves a copy to there somehow and use this like a, what would be in PC terms, crash-free bios and be able to recover from in these type scenarios.

Maybe just save the previous firmware to there before it upgrades and any issues if can be reverted back somehow?

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Saving firmware to eeprom will not help if the firmware is corrupted, as you need  working firmware to read the eeprom

For UCM 7.054, once you try to self upgrade, the firmware is corrupted



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Save the previous version to the U3 chip before the new upgrade download starts.   If it fails for any reason then restore from the U3 chip previous version.

Maybe the firmware upgrade cant always do the auto recovery as it doesn't necessarily know it is broke; this actual use case in this thread is a good example of that.

But to recover then you could have some ring-fenced code that could recover from U3.  then to initiate the restore retrospectively you just set a Boolean at a memory address X and reset the system and it auto recovers.

That's my suggestion anyway.

Julian

 



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juwi_uk wrote: Save the previous version to the U3 chip before the new upgrade download starts.   If it fails for any reason then restore from the U3 chip previous version.

Maybe the firmware upgrade cant always do the auto recovery as it doesn't necessarily know it is broke; this actual use case in this thread is a good example of that.

But to recover then you could have some ring-fenced code that could recover from U3.  then to initiate the restore retrospectively you just set a Boolean at a memory address X and reset the system and it auto recovers.

That's my suggestion anyway.

Julian

 

The EEPROM fitted is only 32KB.



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Yes, there is also that little problem



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The UCM/GSM4 baseboard has a 256K eeprom (24LC256) in U2 for a start so 32K cannot be the max even if you have in your specific UCM 

That said I've no idea what it would need to be anyway.

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juwi_uk wrote: The UCM/GSM4 baseboard has a 256K eeprom (24LC256) in U2 for a start so 32K cannot be the max even if you have in your specific UCM 

That said I've no idea what it would need to be anyway.

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24LC256 is a 256Kbit EEPROM which is 32KB. The UCM firmware file is 256KB.



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UCM 7.056 (beta) fixes the bug in 7.054 (corrupted by self upgrade)


Bugs Fixed
  1. UCM 7.054 cannot be upgraded except  by another UCM

New Features
  1. Implement new UCM command r?TTxxNN query sequential registers where TT = type 0 for Counter, 1 for sensor, xx= starting register no, NN is no of registers. Reply from UCM is r?TTxxNNaaaabbbbccccdddd...... Requires Comfort firmware 7.062
  2. Allows all RS485 modules to be upgraded if the firmware is version 6 including future KP04



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So where does that leave users on 7.054 with just the one UCM as was asked by one user?



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we are still considering the best solution. If there is anyone else who has upgraded to UCM 7.054 please send email to support@cytech.biz or send a PM



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