I had an old Flirc module in my drawer for long (>years). Now that I hooked it up and launched the latest Flirc App (3.1.0), I get a

"Firmware Version Unsupported, You have newer firmware version than this software supports" error.

I have tried this under Win10, Win7 and Ubuntu and all the same.

Is it possible that firmware numbering has changed and I have some firmware from the long past on the module which has a higher version number than current?

Edit: on the bottom left of the GUI the stated firmware version is v255.9.0

 

Edited October 26, 20178 yr by olympia

Hmm. That’s fucking crazy. Send me a log. I’ll figure it out. You can find out how to enable logging in the doc on the downloads page

 

https://flirc.gitbooks.io/flirc-instructions/content/title-page.html

sorry in advance. I’m a bit drunk 

https://pastebin.com/P31T2Gna

Log again:

https://pastebin.com/bBpnJRF3

Forgot you were in Prague last weekend and was too idealistic anyway with the one week pastebin expiration time :)

Hi Jason, can you at least see from the log if the device is somehow bricked or something you can look at the sw side of things?

I have a similar issue, my old flirc is on Firmware: v255.7.0 [0x020A07FF]. The GUI just says it's too new and won't update it.

On ubuntu, the flirc_util is still bundled with the GUI. So what I did was:

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/flirc_util

then you can run things like

/usr/bin/flirc_util version

That should tell you if it's working. Now to update it here is what I just had to do (what a pain in the balls).

on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get remove flirc
wget http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x86_64/backup/flirc_1.2.6-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i flirc_1.2.6-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Flirc

Then it updated the firmware to 2.6.0. Half way there!

sudo apt-get remove flirc
(gets rid of 1.2.6 version)

sudo apt-get install flirc
(re-installs 3.1.0)

Flirc
(now it prompts you to upgrade the firmware)

I don't really enjoy having to scrape through archive.org to find the old repository to get an older version, kind of lame.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent advice! Many thanks for this DreDub (Especially that you probably only registered to help out with your first post?!) I was able to de-brick my flirc unit the proposed way!

Cheers!

Ha! I thought I didn't have an account,but it turns out I had made one a long time ago to get sweet beta firmware downloads. 

Glad it worked! 

Hello Jason,

I'm having the same issue here, on Windows 8.1, and firmware v255.12

I would do as DreDub suggested (use old software version to upgrade firmware), but can't find the old version of software for Windows. Can you link to it please? I would give it a try.

Many thanks!

Ohm23

Having the same problem here on windows 10. Gonna try linux as well. has a fix been found yet?

The old version is no longer found at the url here...

Here are my fw specs. Firmware: v255.11.0 [0x17060BFF]

 

Edit: Never mind am all updated. I just installed 1.2.6 then 1.4.4 then 2.0 upgrading the firmware every time. 2.0 segfaulted then was unable to detect the device. I then installed the newest and the firmware is now updated completely. Hopefully this helps someone.

Should state this was on linux. Found the packages here

http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/i386/binary/

Edited February 10, 20188 yr by Syco54645