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Document Number: 0100SM1401 Issue: 05-15
Verify Selected Button:
Once the units have either been discovered
automatically or have been manually entered, ensure
that the units that require firmware upgrading are
checked in the ‘Select’ column. Once the units are
selected, click the “Verify Selected” button.
This will verify that each of the selected units will respond
again. If the units were manually entered, the verification
will also pull in the current and alternate firmware packs
for each selected unit.
Once the verification is complete, open the new firmware
pack into the firmware update tool.
During a firmware update, only a small patch file is
applied to each radio. These patch files only contain the
differences between current operating firmware and
the new firmware being upgraded to. This provides the
benefit of only sending small amounts of data over the
radio channel, rather than an entire firmware pack.
As it is possible to have radios within the same network
operating on different firmware packs, a number of
different patch files may be required to be sent over the
radio channel.
This means, during a global firmware update, the
firmware update tool requires all firmware update
patches at once. This can be done by providing the
tool with the global firmware zip package (contains all
firmware update patches).
The global firmware zip package is contained within
the standard Q Data Radio firmware zip, which can be
downloaded from the Licensed Trio radio section of
the Schneider Electric website: http://www.schneider-
electric.com/products/ww/en/6000-telemetry-remote-
scada-systems/6010-data-radios/61419-trio-licensed-
radios/?BUSINESS=1
To open the global firmware zip file within the tool, click
the ‘Browse...’ button and select the firmware upgrade
zip package. The global firmware update tool will then
select the appropriate patch within the zip file for each
radio within the unit list based one each current firmware
pack.
Once the Firmware Pack is selected the upload may
commence. This is done by selecting the ‘Upload
Firmware’ button. This process will take some time.
After the Upload process is complete, the new firmware
will be loaded into each radios alternate firmware pack
waiting for activation, to active the new firmware click the
‘Activate Alternate’ button.
Delete Selected Button:
The ‘Delete Selected’ button allows the user to remove
unwanted discovered or verified units from the Unit List.
Part J – Firmware Updating and Maintenance