Hi there everyone!
I wanted to alert you to a firmware upgrade now available for your FieldKit station, as of April 26, 2021.
This upgrade provides both some enhancements and some bug fixes:
-Improved WiFi connectivity
-Improved and more reliable water calibration
-Bug fixes, including the handling of unusable WiFi networks that have been saved to the station
If you’ve never upgraded your firmware before, don’t worry–it’s a fairly easy process! You will need to have a microSD card inserted into your station. From there, you can follow the instructions here in the Product Guide to upgrade either via the mobile app or via the station itself. We recommend starting with the mobile app method.
Let us know how it goes, and if you run into any issues our team is watching the thread to lend a hand.
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Hello everyone! There is a new FieldKit firmware update as of September 2024.
The update provides the following:
A new, rewritten network driver. Previously we were using the OSS version of the WINC1500 network driver. Due to continuing issues we rewrote this driver from the ground up, using a reference implementation. This has fixed many recurring network issues and also resulted in lower memory consumption and, in some cases, better performance. It also sets us up for future improvements.
Migration to community version of SAMD51 FreeRTOS. Prior to this the firmware used an internal FreeRTOS clone, as an OSS one was unavailable when the firmware was first started. Now that there’s a community version available, we’ve migrated to that. This also resulted in fixing several long standing but difficult to reproduce bugs.
Groundwork for a new events system, for tracking the status of system events for diagnostics and reporting.
Watchdog timer support is back. This will ensure stations are restarted whenever an unanticipated hang occurs.
Safeguards against stations that are missing a bootloader in secondary memory segment during upgrades.
Several LoRa related improvements discovered during internal testing.
Several smaller bug fixes, especially around the menu, LEDs, and module power handling.
You can download the update here: https://code.conservify.org/fk-firmware.zip
Never upgraded station firmware before? You can find step-by-step instructions here.
Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any questions!