dh4d:firmware_upgrade

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Seed Robotics strives to deliver the best products to our customers. However, we know bugs are found issues are fixed and performance is improved so all our DH4D/RH4D units are software upgradeable. The SR-DH4D and SR-RH4D use the same firmware file. There are sufficient technical similarities to let us have one single firmware file for both models.

On June 2016, we released firmware version 10, which includes a host of new features that improve compatibility with Robot libraries, interoperability when controlling from multiple hosts, adds new Dynamixel protocol features, adds the SHSP protocol, fixes minor issues, and further extends the self diagnostics capabilities of the units.
This is a highly recommended update for users running older versions of the firmware.

The latest firmware version is version 10.

Firmware file: SR-DH4D-RH4D_firmware_10.hex MD5 checksum: 2b6a30b666d9a6567ecbd29f4cd0df58

The Release notes with Full Changelog are available here: Changelog_SR-DH4D-RH4D_firmware_10.txt
We recommend reading this file before upgrading your firmware.

Pre Requisites In order to upgrade the firmware of your unit you will need:

  • A USB micro-B cable to connect to the unit's USB port
  • The Firmware Loader, available from the chip manufacturer website: Teensy Loader (you only need the Teensy Loader tool!)
  • The Soft Reboot tool to trigger the firmware update:
  • If you are using Windows (version <10), you also need to make sure that you have the Virtual COMM Port drivers installed; if you are using Linux as non-root you need to add some udev rules. Check the USB console instructions where you will find the details on how to do all of this.

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