Manual SB Radio firmware update - how?

[toby10]

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I have never been notified that I need to do an update and wouldn't know
how to do that unless it prompted me. I never go to anything on my PC (as
far as the SB is concerned). I have the little icon on my bottom tray on my
PC (Windows7) for the Logitech Media Server but I never open it. Should I?

On your Radio go to Settings > Advanced > SqueezeBox Info > Player Info, what is reported for your Radio's firmware version?
Also go to the Server Info in that same menu location. Scroll down to "Library", what does it say?

[JJZolx]

If you manually places the files in the updates folder and turn on updates it works, but as you actually turned on updates you better not be connected to the internet .then your files get overwritten with the latest ? that’s how i think it works stephentw just did that I done it a long time ago can't remember the circumstance,
pity that radio does not have the SD card slot that Touch and Controller has easy to upgrade then .

I'm fairly certain that is does not work that way with the Radio, Touch or Controller.

Rereading the original post, the OP says he got it to work (although he doesn't know how), but then says his Radio is still at firmware 9557. So, apparently, the Radio did not update.

To answer another question from the OP: The Touch, Radio and Controller firmwares are not included with any installation or upgrade of the server. The firmware files are considered too large to distribute as a part of the server software download, unlike those for the SB3, Transporter, etc, which are much smaller. The only way to get the latest firmware is to have the server (or player) go out on the internet and retrieve it. Or, as discussed above, you can manually download them and load them onto either the Touch or Controller by placing them on an SD card.

Is there no way to connect the LMS _server_ to the internet, even if only temporarily? The players themselves don't need to be connected (but they do need to be connected to the server), since the server will retrieve the newest firmware and pass it to the players. If you do get it connected you may need to restart the LMS process, as it normally only checks for firmware updates at startup and then only once every 24 hours.

[stephentw]

Sorry I think you're getting mixed up. My initial post was from when I didn't know how to do it saying the version I was on. I since posted that I found a method which works and I'm now on the latest firmware version. There is a way to update it. I posted it in one of my replies. Download the baby.version and .bin files from the update address I posted then put them in the c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\squeezebox\cache\updates\ folder. Reboot the server and it sets the update off.

Hope that helps

[JJZolx]

Thanks for the clarification. I'll have to try it again and maybe close that bug.

[stephentw]

Hope it works for you