UltraLink E-Series Manual
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Updating UltraLink E-Series firmware
Note:
Your UltraLink E-Series products may ship with an older firmware version. Before using the
UltraLink products, you must update the firmware version installed on the devices to use the version of
your deployed release. All UltraLink E-Series devices must use the same version of the firmware.
Before you update any firmware, please read the following guidelines:
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Make sure your firmware installation computer has at least 1 GB of free disk space available.
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To avoid possible problems with the UltraLink, we recommend running only one instance of the
firmware updater on the network at a time.
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Make sure you’re running the latest version of the UltraLink E-Series Firmware Updater.
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Make sure Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5.x is installed on the computer.
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Make sure you have a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server on the network. The
firmware updater requires constant IP addresses to update the devices properly. Since the firmware
updater requires a device to reboot multiple times, make sure the DHCP server maintains the IP
address of a device when it reappears on the network. Otherwise, we recommend assigning fixed IP
addresses to the devices.
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Close any programs that may be running (such as the UltraLink Device Manager).
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If the system doesn’t have access to a DNS server, temporarily configure the system to use a fixed IP
address (such as local host - 127.0.0.1) as its DNS server. Otherwise, the firmware update process
may take a long time to complete.
Firmware update procedure – point-to-point mode
You can update the firmware of a single transmitter, or of a transmitter and receiver pair (in point-to-point
mode) using the USB connection between your host system and the transmitter.
1.
Download and extract the firmware package
Download the latest firmware package and extract the files to a local folder on your host system
(the system connected to your transmitter).
2.
Run the
Updater from host
file
On your host system, browse to the folder containing the extracted files, then run the
Updaterfromhost.exe
file.
Note
: To update the firmware, the
Updaterfromhost.exe
file installs a USB mass storage device on the
Transmitter. On certain systems, the Group Policy Object (GPO) may prevent the
Updaterfromhost.exe
file from installing the USB mass storage device. To allow the installation of this UltraLink E-series
device, you may need to apply an exception to your GPO rules. For more information on modifying your
GPO rules, contact your system administrator.
3.
Update the firmware
Make sure the devices you want to update are listed in the program window. Devices that require
an update are listed with a green status bar. Click
Update
to update your devices. Wait while the
devices are being updated (up to 20 minutes).
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