UZB/RaZberry Firmwares - Update
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SweetGeniuswrote on Jul 25, 2020, 3:46 AM last edited by SweetGenius Aug 2, 2020, 7:31 PM
So i just received a UZB stick from a US seller.
Part number ZMEUUZB1
Serial number 4.19.01
Firmware 5.27
Firmware update options:
5.27 => 5.36
5.27 => 5.23
Has anyone successfully updated the firmware on one of these or is it brick material? Any vendors with up-gradable sticks?Update: Tried to update from the GUI and it never recovered. No lights and will not detect.
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Yep, our UZB is upgradable.Black Cat UZB Z-Wave Smart 6 Static controller
https://www.blackcatcontrolsystems.com.au/Black-Cat-UZB-Smart-6-Static-Z-Wave-ControllerUZB sometimes can be unbricked, I don;t have the link for this but Raf might remember where it resided.
FWIW, the ZWBCUZB might also be flashable to other frequencies, I've never tried it but the FW is available for other regions.
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I got my stick from eBay I think but I think amazon one here should be upgradable. The non upgradable ones are more rare I think:
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@rafale77
I have bricked two of them, Could I be doing something wrong when trying to upgrade the firmware? I am Using Z-way v3.0.6 GUI expert settings. Update firmware button, Putting "all" in the token field and click the button on update firmware 5.27 to 5.36. After the page reloads the the device is not accessible and no blue lights. It does not show up in the /dev folder any more. Reboot of the Pi does not help. -
Have you tried unplugging and plugging it back to power cycle the stick? I screwed up the firmware upload quite intensively on the last upgrade (>50x) due to some memory indexing issues and never managed to brick it. The process has it load the entire firmware image on the non volatile memory first and then after checking it is corruption free, it does the upgrade. I found it much more difficult to brick than say the vera firmware. The 3rd party vendor stick is unknown to me as I don't have one but I see some people struggling with upgrading those.
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Yes, unplugged multiple times, The link you sent is the same vendor that I bought from directly. I have read your posts so that is why I thought I might be doing something wrong.
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I am also not using the GUI. I use the command line upgrade tool, in part because I had a lot of failures with the GUI with not much explanation... and I like to know what is going on...
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I looked at the CLI tool. Very confusing of the correct bootloaders and version of files. I thought the GUI would be safer.
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True, it is a bit dissuasive at first... And the firmware map is kind of mind-blowing and takes some time to understand how it works. Well sorry you got these 3rd party buggers.
This I am pretty sure where I got mine from. I would recommend returning those amazon ones if you still can. -
Thanks for the info. Does your stick have a "true" serial number? Mine has the same serial number of other peoples that bricked on the z-way forum "04.19.01"
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I am not seeing a serial number but have a UUID which I assume is unique and a subvendor ID of 0x0115
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SweetGeniuswrote on Aug 6, 2020, 11:25 PM last edited by SweetGenius Aug 6, 2020, 7:27 PM
3rd UZB and it appeared to upgrade. (Via GUI) I upgraded from 5.27 to 5.36. Then upgraded to 5.36 to 5.39. @rafale77 , Since you are on 5.39, does your show anything in the SDK Version line? Mine did before the upgrade to 5.39.
On the firmware upgrade page it shows this now. But they do nothing.
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It is normal. No I am not seeing an SDK version because... it is too new. This will apparently will be fixed in the next version of z-way. It is in fact 6.82.1
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Great! Let me know if you need any help or if the documentation needs improvements.
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Hi @rafale77 or any others in this coMmunity who might be able to help., I‘m looking to upgrade my UZB USB module, - which is plugged into to a USB hub on my PI - to the latest firmware..
Using the guide here..
https://z-wave.me/zmeserialupdater-manual/I’ve so far done the following..
wget https://z-wave.me/download/ZMESerialUpdater.tgz tar -zxvf ZMESerialUpdater.tgz cd ZMESerialUpdater/arm/ chmod +x ZMESerialUpdater
To be sure the software is working and also to check what FW I currently have - I ran the following command.
pi@raspberrypi:~/ZMESerialUpdater/arm $ sudo ./ZMESerialUpdater serialapi_uzbupdate -d /dev/ttyACM0
Which gave me this...
Z-WAVE Serial API Tool Version:LWE0.9 by Z-WAVE>ME --> Device ready in:1.01568007469 seconds FULL INFO Openning port .............................. OK SERIAL INFO VERSION: 05 05 VENDOR: 01 15 ZME_CAPABILITIES UID: 7B 93 21 D8 62 1E C2 2B 4F 6E 8B 94 A3 05 01 36 VENDOR: 00 00 NODES: FF FLAGS: 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FIRMWARE CRC BOOT: BB BB FW: 75 7B MISC FREQ: EU NVR Content -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prog/erase lock : FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF, Read back lock: FF Rev 01, Cal 06, TXCal 17 13, SAW FF FF FF FF, Pin FF, CRC 3E CE NMV: CS 15, TYPE 02, SIZE 01 00, PSIZE 01 00 (EEPROM M25PE20) USB: VID FF FF, PID FF FF, UUID FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FACTORY ID: WEEK 51, YEAR 16, CHIP 00 01, SER 0B D2, WS 1, HWREV: 00 01, CRC8 04 elapsed 3.09909391403 seconds
The next steps seems to be to find the latest firmware, and that’s where things get a little confusing, as it basically tells you to go and find it via this - https://service.z-wave.me/expertui/uzb-stats/versions-graph.html. and that’s where I get lost ..
It seems to be suggesting that I need to build my own url (using the following construct below) to download it..
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I would recommend running the upgrade through the z-way-server expert UI if you can. It makes things a lot simpler. Using the firmware tool works better but is a bit of a learning curve. Indeed if you open the version graph, you need to find which firmware version you currently are on and clicking on the corresponding dot on the graph opens a simple page listing all the url of every possible downgrade/firmware available from that version. This is where you get the url to use with the tool...
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Thanks
I downloads the software and installed the zway stuff, and then useD the ‘ExpertUI’ as described to update the firmware and boot loader; interestingly their website says the latest version is 5.39. - https://z-wave.me/support/uzbrazberry-firmwares/
Yet, It seems while I was originally only on 5.05, after two upgrades 5.06 and 5.07 - the software tells me I’m now all up to date.. yet it’s reporting I’m on 5.07..
Here’s my updated report.. ..
Device ready in:25.022865057 seconds FULL INFO Openning port .............................. OK SERIAL INFO VERSION: 05 07 VENDOR: 01 15 ZME_CAPABILITIES UID: 7B 93 21 D8 62 1E C2 2B 4F 6E 8B 94 A3 05 01 36 VENDOR: 00 00 NODES: FF FLAGS: 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FIRMWARE CRC BOOT: 9D 04 FW: AE CB MISC FREQ: EU NVR Content -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prog/erase lock : FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF, Read back lock: FF Rev 01, Cal 06, TXCal 17 13, SAW FF FF FF FF, Pin FF, CRC 3E CE NMV: CS 15, TYPE 02, SIZE 01 00, PSIZE 01 00 (EEPROM M25PE20) USB: VID FF FF, PID FF FF, UUID FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FACTORY ID: WEEK 51, YEAR 16, CHIP 00 01, SER 0B D2, WS 1, HWREV: 00 01, CRC8 04
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Did you try typing all in the token field ?
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