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Devices Firmware (OS) - Update Offline

Devices Firmware (OS) - Update Offline

 

This document describes the step-by-step guide for updating the Operating System (Firmware) in the former G&F devices using a USB Flash Drive.

Instructions

Please follow the given steps to update the Operating system through the USB Stick.

Identify architecture and firmware

  • Take an empty USB stick and plug it into the development machine.

  • Enter into the Seco website using the link

  • Click on Products and services in the Header and select Seco Edge

  • Click on Products Catalog and select HMI from the dropdown.

  • Scroll down to the Category section and select the category of your device. (eg: If you have a Flush mount Santaro device you can select Flush mount)

  • If you need some help in finding the category of your device you can check the following video from Seco in the following link.

  • Select the device which you have by using the Name and the display size. (eg: Look at the back of the Santaro device and find the name and the display size and select the same device details in the web page.)

    Device details at the back of the device

  • Check the processor or CPU type of the device after finding the device with the name and the display size

 

Download firmware

  • Scroll down to the software section in the Product details.

  • If you can not find the latest software which is needed, click on the Releases page in the followiong link.

  • Click on the software which you need for your device. (eg: Download Dunfell-14 which is the latest)

  • Select the processor name of the device.(eg: imx6guf for the Santaro device)

  • We can find the image files which we need to download.

    Yocto Dunfell Image files

  • Download the BUILD_SRCREVS, fng-install, guf-image-imx6guf.manifest, guf-image-imx6guf.tar, guf-image-imx6guf.testdata, license.manifest, md5sums, metainfo and pkg files in the development machine.

Prepare the USB Flash drive

  • Place the downloaded files in the root directory on the USB flash drive

  • Insert the Flash drive in to the Device which needs to be updated.

Connect the device to pc using serial cable

  • Connect the device and the host machine(Laptop) by using the serial cable.

Serial cable connection

  • Open any terminal emmulator program (eg:Tera term) in the Host machine (laptop) by using the serial cable (RS-232, USB cable, etc)

  • Change the serial port settings in the application and click on new settings when we try to connect through RS232 cable.

Entering Flash and Go mode

  • Login to the terminal as root user by entering the command (By default the root user may not have password)

root cd /

  • Boot in to the Flash and Go mode by entering the following command.

bootselect alternative

  • Reboot the device by entering the command

reboot

  • The device will boot up in to the flash and go mode

Flash Firmware

  • Enter the command to get into the root folder of USB stick.

cd /mnt/mstick1

  • Execute the installation script by entering the command

./fng-install.sh

  • Enter the command to boot in to the regular operating system.

bootselect regular reboot

The Operating system will not get installed if we install the OS of a different device or processor.

Updating Flash-N-Go components

Please note that you can update Flash-N-Go boot and Flash-N-Go System the same way as described above. Each release contains an appropriate update script.