Installation manual

Control Panels Nucoda and Phoenix 2014 Install Manual
Precision Firmware Update
This section describes how to update the Precision panel firmware.
note
Firmware can add new functionality, or modify existing functionality and may be
required occasionally. Digital Vision will communicate this requirement to you.
To update the Precision firmware, you will need :
• The new firmware files.
There may be up to 8 files called (e.g. fw1.pkg,..,fw8.pkg). Some might be 0
(zero) bytes in size and wll be skipped automatically.
• A TFTP (Trivial FTP) server program.
The TFTP program is used to transfer (push) the firmware files to each panel.
Firmware Files
Firmware files are included in the installer and placed in folder :
C:\Nucoda\2014_1\root\Panel\Precision\Firmware
Firmware Version
Before doing the firmware update, you should note the current firmware version
installed. This will be a date and time, displayed via the configuration menu on panel
boot. Do this for each panel.
As described above, to enter the configuration menu, hold down the Tools button on
panel boot and select :
Show version >
The firmware version is displayed as the Panelapp date and time :
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Panelapp: panelapp 05/10/2011 10:25:18 AM
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Downloading TFTPD32
We will use a TFTP program tftpd32.
note
This is included in the installer and placed in folder :
C:\Nucoda\utilities\tftpd
Installing the Firmware
1. Double click tftpd32.exe to start it.
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