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Upgrading SmartSDR on a remote radio

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dlmorgan999
dlmorgan999 Member ✭✭
edited June 4 in SmartSDR for Windows

Reading the release notes for 4.2.20, Flex advises you to "cold boot" the radio as part of the upgrade process. For those of you running a radio purely remotely (which includes me), how do you accomplish this?

I have a Raspberry Pi with a relay HAT connected to the remote on terminal. That's how I power the radio on and off remotely, but I'm guessing this doesn't count as a cold boot?

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  • KD0RC
    KD0RC Member, Super Elmer Moderator
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    A cold boot includes removing power after the radio is shut off. If you have a way to remotely shut off your power supply, that will work.

    If not, just do a re-boot without shutting the power supply down. It will most likely be OK until you get a chance to do a proper cold boot.

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  • dlmorgan999
    dlmorgan999 Member ✭✭
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    I don't (yet) have a way to remotely shut off the power supply. As a retired IT admin / devops engineer, I couldn't think of a good reason why you would really need to cycle the power, so I'll do the reboot (FRStack makes that easy), and see how it goes. Thanks.

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