New Firmware for plugs
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:49 am
Dear Forum Plugwise Users,
This weekend i had the honeur to do a Firmware update ( update will be available soon for everybody ) of all my plugs ( 100 pieces )
I was the lucky one to test it for you all ( must admid im happy )
Everything went great, its all working and faster then before.
If you gonna do the upgrade here is some advice so you dont fall into any problems.
1: BE SHURE all your plugs are reachable ( put them togheter if you can.. the longer distance the longer time you gonna need )
2: Every plug / stick / circle+ / Stretch-light needs to be on his own 220V powersupply.. in other words do not feed 1 plug with the power of another.
i forgot my stretchlight was powered by the circle+ so wenn the circle went down i lost power on my stretch and therefore my stick.
Thanks to the very good support of Reinder and after a reset of the circle+ it all came up and worked after 15 minutes.
3: Be VERY patient !! uploading new firmware to plugs takes between 7 and 15 minutes each plug. if fails it will retry a few times
4: After the last step your network is going to reset. it can take a while before the circle+ finds all the know plugs. again... the shorter the plugs are togheter the faster it goes. DONT CLICK NEXT TILL YA SHURE ALL IS ONLINE AGAIN !!
I first did uploading the new firmware.. restarted the upgrader and after i was shure i gave it the reset.. this took double time so if you are sure about what you are doing you can skip that and do the reset directly after uploading.
first network crashed because i had my stretchlight powered by circle+
second network 40 plugs took me ( after uploading ) 27 minutes to be back and online
thirt network ( only stick and circle+ ) took not even 5 minutes.
Good luck ya all... it worked for me ( on long distances 50 metres + ) and dont think ya will get any problems if ya plugs are less then 10 metres.
PS. if upgrade is done ya will hear the onclick of a plug in 1 second. reseting a plug isnt difficult anymore. deleting plugs from ya network works perfectly!!
Greatz Sebastiaan
This weekend i had the honeur to do a Firmware update ( update will be available soon for everybody ) of all my plugs ( 100 pieces )
I was the lucky one to test it for you all ( must admid im happy )
Everything went great, its all working and faster then before.
If you gonna do the upgrade here is some advice so you dont fall into any problems.
1: BE SHURE all your plugs are reachable ( put them togheter if you can.. the longer distance the longer time you gonna need )
2: Every plug / stick / circle+ / Stretch-light needs to be on his own 220V powersupply.. in other words do not feed 1 plug with the power of another.
i forgot my stretchlight was powered by the circle+ so wenn the circle went down i lost power on my stretch and therefore my stick.
Thanks to the very good support of Reinder and after a reset of the circle+ it all came up and worked after 15 minutes.
3: Be VERY patient !! uploading new firmware to plugs takes between 7 and 15 minutes each plug. if fails it will retry a few times
4: After the last step your network is going to reset. it can take a while before the circle+ finds all the know plugs. again... the shorter the plugs are togheter the faster it goes. DONT CLICK NEXT TILL YA SHURE ALL IS ONLINE AGAIN !!
I first did uploading the new firmware.. restarted the upgrader and after i was shure i gave it the reset.. this took double time so if you are sure about what you are doing you can skip that and do the reset directly after uploading.
first network crashed because i had my stretchlight powered by circle+
second network 40 plugs took me ( after uploading ) 27 minutes to be back and online
thirt network ( only stick and circle+ ) took not even 5 minutes.
Good luck ya all... it worked for me ( on long distances 50 metres + ) and dont think ya will get any problems if ya plugs are less then 10 metres.
PS. if upgrade is done ya will hear the onclick of a plug in 1 second. reseting a plug isnt difficult anymore. deleting plugs from ya network works perfectly!!
Greatz Sebastiaan
