6. Maintenance
6.2
Upgrading Firmware of Green BCM Box
To upgrade firmware of Green BCM Box you need an USB stick with the required firmware file.
Green BCM software USB upgrade has been tested successfully with following USB sticks:
Transcend Jet Flash (8 GB)
HP V210 w (8GB)
SanDisk Cruzer Blade (8 GB, 16 GB)
Kingston DTSE9 (16GB)
Step 1: Prepare your USB stick on your PC or Laptop :
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Plug in the USB stick into a Windows PC
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Open Windows Explorer
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Navigate to and right-click on the USB stick
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From the context menu, select Format… (this will erase the contents of the USB stick)
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From the File system drop down, select FAT32.
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Click Start to format the USB stick.
Step 2:
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Download the gBCM upgrade package R330613_<Rev no>_Flash.zip to your Windows PC.
Step 3:
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When formatting (see Step 1) has been completed, unzip the gBCM upgrade package to the USB stick.
The upgrade package includes all files to enable booting from the USB stick.
Make sure the directories \boot, \img, \log are in the root directory of the USB stick drive.
Step 4:
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Unplug the power cable from Green BCM Box.
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Insert the USB stick in USB2 slot (USB1 slot cannot be used for booting from USB)
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Wait for 20 seconds
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Plug in the power cable
After few seconds LED in Green Box starts flashing faster (2 Hz)
The upgrade system will check the consistency of the USB stick image (check sums). If these checks fail the
upgrade will stop and LED on Green BCM box will stop blinking
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The upgrade procedure checks the versions of the Green Box controller and of the USB stick image.
If both have the same version the upgrade is cancelled.
If versions are different then upgrade system collects configuration data of the box and saves it to the stick.
Next, the disk image on the USB stick is copied over the internal flash disk.
Once the upgrade is completed, LED on Green BCM box stops blinking.
Finally, configuration data is copied back to the system.
LED on Green BCM box stops blinking
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When the LED blinking stops on the Green BCM Box,
Unplug the power cable from Green BCM Box.
Remove the USB stick
Wait for 20 seconds.
Re-plug the power cord to start-up the new system.
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Connect to the Green BCM Box by entering its IP address into a web browser.
Barco – Green BCM Solution – R591346 – user's manual – Revision 04– November-2016
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