Instruction manual
Table Of Contents
- ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
- Introduction
- Product Pics and Specs
- Connections, Cleaning, and Charging
- Touch Panel Basics
- Designing Touch Panel Pages
- Overview
- Activating the Edit button
- Setting the Device Base
- Setting the Device Used
- Creating a Page
- Creating a Button
- Button Properties
- Using TPDesign3 to Download Bitmaps, Icons, and Fonts
- Button Properties for External Pushbuttons
- Creating an IR Macro Button
- Creating a Joystick
- Creating a Bargraph
- Linking the New Page to the Main Page
- Exiting Edit Mode
- Programming
- Overview
- PC to ViewPoint Connections
- Programming the ViewPoint
- Programming Changes
- Serial Commands
- System Send_Commands
- Gray Scale and Programming Numbers
- Colors/Shades of Gray and Programming Numbers
- Font Styles and Programming Numbers
- Border Styles and Programming Numbers
- Shorthand Send Commands
- Color/Gray Scale Send_Commands
- Variable Text Send_Commands
- Shorthand Variable Text Commands
- Buttons String Commands
- Button IR Macro Commands
- Loading Infrared (IR) Files
- Upgrading the Firmware
- Contacting Sales and Technical Support
- Index
ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels Upgrading the Firmware 105
Upgrading the Firmware
Overview
In this section, you’ll see how to upgrade the firmware in the ViewPoint using the
SOFTROM software program. Your PC must be connected to the PROGRAM DB-9
connector on the Controller or camera control unit connector using a Programming
Cable.
If power is lost during the download process, the unit powers up with the same set of
code it had prior to the download. There is a small window during which a loss of
power can be catastrophic. If power is lost between the erase of flash memory and the
completion of copying the new boot code from RAM to flash memory, the unit does
not operate at all when power returns.
To update the firmware in the touch panels:
1. Place the AMX Control Disc into the Compact Disc player of your PC.
2. From the Start menu, go to Programs\AMX Control Disc\AMX DOS
Tools\SOFTROM.
3. Click the SOFTROM program. A screen similar to the screen shown in Figure 114
appears on your computer.
Caution
Power loss during SOFTROM
download can seriously affect
the PosiTrack 30 and any
previously stored information.
Note
These steps follow the instal-
lation of this software from the
AMX Control Disc.
Figure 114
SOFTROM screen