Karl,
please see comments below. For the avoidance of doubt, one feels
your pain.
HTH, 73,
Robin, G8DQX
On 28/03/2022 00:01, Karl W4KRL wrote:
None of the instructions for firmware updating are either
understandable or workable.
Unless one is quite
specific it's very hard for a potential
helper to know
which set of instructions have been attempted
to be followed.
The first approach was to use the instructions for?Updating the
firmware using a bin file and STM32CubeProgrammer(Windows)
unfortunately the link is dead.
The link at?
looks very live (that link is quoted in )
Next:?Updating the firmware using a bin file and dfu-util(Windows,
Linux and Mac) I downloaded the bin file and renamed it to
tinyAS.bin. However the step "Download dfu-util from
and check you can
execute it" is meaningless.? I downloded dfu-util-0.11.tar.gz?but
none of the files contained in it are executable.
Likewise?DFU_LOAD_BIN.bat cannot be run on Windows 11 due to
security issues.
The step "The tinySA should
now be updating with the tinySA.bin file using
dfu-util-static.exe" does not work because dfu-util-static.exe
does not execute.
I then copied the first command from the bat file and ran
it in a Windows command window:
C:\Users\User\Downloads>.\dfu-util-static.exe? -a 0 -s
0x08000000:leave -D .\tinySA.bin
dfu-util 0.9
?
Copyright 2005-2009 Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko
Inc.
Copyright 2010-2016 Tormod Volden and Stefan Schmidt
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
Please report bugs to
?
Invalid DFU suffix signature
A valid DFU suffix will be required in a future dfu-util
release!!!
Cannot open DFU device 0483:df11
No DFU capable USB device available
That means one or both of (at least) two things:
a) that the tinySA has not been put in to DFU mode, or
b) that there is no Windows DFU driver installed. The
same firmware update mode is also used for the nanoVNA, and there
is a clear-looking explanation of installing the driver under
Windows 10 to be found at /g/nanovna-users/message/20899.
The DFU driver issue is not mentioned in the STM32Cube
instructions [I don't know if this is an omission or the Cube
programmer automagically sorts things out.]
The DFU Driver issue is also not mentioned (is missing)
in the generic firmware update instructions to be found at .
I then Googled tinysa firmware update and found the YouTube by
Lockdown Electronics. This looked promising until discovering that
dfuse demo is no longer available. All links go to
STM32CubeProgrammer and the instructions are no longer valid.
I tried a few more YouTube video and gave up after about three
hours of useless effort.
Are there any instructions for firmware updating that are relevant
and understandable for Windows 11 in March 2022?
AFAIK there is no set of instructions for firmware update that
specifically address Windows 11. As for understandable
that rather depends on who the specific audience member is, their
domain specific knowledge &c.
Full disclosure: this author is not currently using any Windows
machine, 11 or otherwise.
