Flarm Ver 6.06 Download

[Dave Springford]

I tried unsuccessfully, several times, to update the flarm portables in our club towplanes with the file downloaded from the Flarm site.

When you download the file directly from Flarms site, the file name is powerflarm_6_06_8249.fw and the flarm does not recognize it on boot up.

I am told that changing the filename to powerflarm_6.06_8249.fw fixes the problem.

In short replace 6_06 with 6.06 in the filename.

It does not seem to affect every unit, but it has caused issues with some Cores and some Portables that I have heard of.

[Papa3[_2_]]

Is there any way to confirm that my update was successful without waiting to create a log file? My Flarm feeds a clearnav, which doesn't indicate Flarm version.

[Dave Springford]

Well, that fix didn't work on the portable units I am trying to update. One more attempt tomorrow. I"ll try changing the file name from powerflarm_6.06_8249.fw
to the same format as last years successful firmware updates (from the same SD card. PF6.06_8249.fw.

As to Erik's question, the CSV file that downloads to the card or USB shows the current fw version.

[Dan Daly[_2_]]

On Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 9:23:51 PM UTC-4, Dave Springford wrote:
> Well, that fix didn't work on the portable units I am trying to update. One more attempt tomorrow. I"ll try changing the file name from powerflarm_6.06_8249.fw
> to the same format as last years successful firmware updates (from the same SD card. PF6.06_8249.fw.
>
> As to Erik's question, the CSV file that downloads to the card or USB shows the current fw version.

The only other problems I have had with updating was bad USB sticks (on COREs). Perhaps try another microSD (or reformat, then retry)?

Dan

[Dave Springford]

I'm using the same SD card as last year, and it has not been used for anything since then either.

[Andrew Ouellet]

Try updating through the menu options after startup.

[Dave Springford]

I could not find any menu option to do that after briefly going through the menu.

[Andrew Ouellet]

What version are you running now? It may tell you on the startup screen depending on the version. I updated to 6.06 last week and it was through an active menu option - after thinking it odd the update didn't happen automatically on startup. I updated from the previous 6.0x version.

[Dave Springford]

The Portable is currently running 6.02.

I"ll have to look through the menu again and see if I can find the update option.

[Dave Nadler]

Dave - PF Portable Menu option Info > Update

See you at Bermuda High?
Best Regards, Dave

[Dave Springford]

Thanks Dave,

I just looked in the manual and found that, (IAEF - RTM) but I don't remember having to do that last year. Seems to me that it found the .fw on the card on start up and did it automatically the previous times.


See you at Bermuda High.