Category Archives: Firmware Release

New Firmware 1.2.172 and BLM 2.1.174

I just published the latest Firmware and BLM software. It is almost one year since the last official release, but we did a lot of work since… I just didn’t find time to publish the latest versions.
The big improvement is the introduced flexibility in coordinate transformation. We can now support use many map datums and grid systems. But also BLM has completely been redesigned and improved.

BLM 2.1.174
BLM is completely rewritten and also renamed to just BLM! It is now even much stronger, supports the same coordinate systems as the logger and can export data to WPT, PLT, GPX and Excel. See a full description at its separate page.

Firmware 1.2.172
New major firmware version 1.2:
– Added map datum and grid system support. Datum Support is dependant on the BLM software version. The following Grid Systems are supported:: Lat/Long, UTM, Custom Transverse Mercator, British National Grid, Swiss Grid
– Improved battery handling
– Use RTC to have correct date/time before GPS fix

It also contains the following fixes:
– Fixed minor issue with rounding of instrument error
– Fix problem with wrong date being shown as the first fix date at some conditions
– Fixed communication for flash dump
– Added hardware support for the latest hardware generation (2011 built devices)

New firmware 1.0.126

– Added Swiss Grid system
– Corrected instrument error behaviour
– Adjusted GPS timeout
– Fixed minor GPS parsing problem
– Improved device shutdown (but switch on has now to be blocked for 5 seconds after switch off)

Attention:
Upgrading to this firmware removes all stored tracks on the loggers with firmware prior to 1.0.115.

Firmware upgrade

New firmware 1.0.118

Fixed a bug that caused the logger to fail logging the track. The problem only happened in very seldom cases but regularly the first time (and only the first time) the logger was started (including entering QNH) after upgrade to 1.0.115.
In addition an alert was introduced that informs the pilot in case of logging failures.
I suggest upgrading to this release as soon as possible for all loggers.

Attention:
Upgrading to this firmware removes all stored tracks on the loggers with firmware prior to 1.0.115.

Firmware upgrade

New firmware 1.0.115

Minor improvements:
– Added support for internal GPS for new logger hardware version
– Added instrument error correction.
– Renamed trackfiles on SD Card to be .igc
– Improved Battery handling

Attention:
Upgrading to this firmware removes all stored tracks on the logger.

Firmware upgrade