Upgrading to sketch version 4: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:46, 1 November 2021

There is now a new release of the default factory sketch. This is version 4.0.0.

Current products are still being sold with the previous 3.2.0 version therefore you should manually install this one if you want to upgrade.

This is for all units RPICT8 RPICT7V1 RPICT4V3 RPIZ_CT4V3T2 all in version 3 4 and 5.

RPICT3T1 and RPICT3V1 and equivalent for raspberrypi zero are not concerned by this upgrade.

Version 4 has been through a complete review and allow for multiple type of computation nodes within the same RPICT unit.

The major improvement is the support of a new web interface. This is still under development and for now only have support for a basic configuration.

Future versions will have a more advanced configuration panel with full control of node configuration.

Install avrdude on the Raspberrypi. For this just follow the steps in the guide below.
Upload Arduino sketch from Raspberrypi to RPICT

Download the new frimware. For version 3:

wget lechacal.com/RPICT/sketch/RPICT_MCP3208_V3_v4.0.0.ino

For version 4 and 5:

wget lechacal.com/RPICT/sketch/RPICT_MCP3208_v4.0.0.ino

Then upload the firmware to the RPICT unit using

lcl-upload-sketch.sh RPICT_MCP3208_v4.0.0.ino

We have packed together the web interface with all the tools required in a single package.

Get the package:

wget lechacal.com/RPICT/tools/lcl-rpict-package_v1.0.0.deb

Install it with

sudo dkpg -i lcl-rpict-package_v1.0.0.deb

To run the server just launch the command below

lcl-server.sh

You can now access the web interface from any computer/device on your network with the address

http://raspberrypi:8000

or

http://<ip-address>:8000

From there it is possible to configure the RPICT unit directly from the web interface without going through the lcl-rpict-config.py command.

If you prefer having the server running all the time without entering the lcl-server.sh command then follow the steps below.

sudo systemctl start lcl-server
sudo systemctl enable lcl-server

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 There is now a new release of the default factory sketch. This is version 4.0.0.
-Current product are still being sold with the previous 3.2.0 version therefore you should manually install this one if you want to upgrade.
+Current products are still being sold with the previous 3.2.0 version therefore you should manually install this one if you want to upgrade.
 This is for all units RPICT8 RPICT7V1 RPICT4V3 RPIZ_CT4V3T2 all in version 3 4 and 5.
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 Version 4 has been through a complete review and allow for multiple type of computation nodes within the same RPICT unit.
-The major improvement is the support of a new web interface. This is still under development and for now only support a basic configuration.
+The major improvement is the support of a new web interface. This is still under development and for now only have support for a basic configuration.
-Later we will have a more advanced with full control of node configuration.
+Future versions will have a more advanced configuration panel with full control of node configuration.
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