[hpsdr] Some Progress

[Joe Martin K5SO]

Pardon me, the actual filename to edit is for the current Ozy firmware in initozy11.bat is Ozy_Janus.v25.rbf and Ozy_Janus.v24.rbf;  I should’ve looked instead of using my unreliable memory for filenames. 

73,  Joe K5SO

On Jun 22, 2013, at 9:17 PM, Joe Martin K5SO wrote:

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> Hi Dave, 
> 
> Happy to hear you’re enjoying your system.  You, like many in the community it seems to me, appear to have an aversion to loading new firmware into your boards when bringing them up.  In my opinion this should not be the case as the only sure way to ensure that the boards all have compatible firmware is to load the current versions of firmware into them.  To underscore this, please note that recently there have been major changes in the firmware for Atlas-based boards, such as the Ozy and Mercury boards are, that are not compatible with earlier versions of firmware.  The current firmware for all the boards constitute a compatible set of firmware.  
> 
> TAPR stocks boards with firmware loaded that was “the latest” when the boards were manufactured.  I don’t think TAPR updates their stock with the “latest" firmware before shipping out boards that are purchased well after the manufacture date (am I wrong about that?).  
> 
> My recommendation to you and others is to always to update your boards to the current versions of firmware as a first step when bringing them up.  That’s the only way to be absolutely certain that the firmware versions of the various boards on the Atlas bus are compatible.  If, later, you wish to use an earlier firmware version please feel free to do so, but in the intial stages of bringing up a new system it makes better sense to use the current firmware in order to eliminate “incompatible firmware” as a reason for failure.
> 
> To update Magis/Ozy to v2.5, that is done by editing the initOzy11.bat file in the Release folder of the PowerSDR version you are running to point to JanusOzy_V2.5.rbf instead of JanusOzy_V2.4.rbf, as you may know.  The latest PowerSDR versions have both JanusOzy_V2.5 and JanusOzy_V2.4.rbf in the Release distribution folder.  
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> 73,  Joe K5SO
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> 
> The current version of Magister/Ozy is v2.5 and Mercury is v3.4.  


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