Updating Your Camera

Applying an update from a camUpdate.zip package

• Extract the .zip file into the root directory of a FAT32 formatted USB drive.
  • This should result in a camUpdate folder in the root directory of the stick.
• Turn on your camera and insert the USB drive into the USB/eSATA combo port.
• From the main window, tap the Util button to open the utility window.
• As a precaution, tap the Backup Calibration Data button on the utility window before starting the update.
  • This should take about 5 seconds. When the backup is completed, a pop-up window will be displayed.
  • Tap the Done button to close the pop-up window.
• From the utility window, tap the Apply Software Update button to begin the software update.
  • A warning message will be displayed, tap the Yes button to confirm and begin the update.
  • If a pop-up that says 'No software update found' is displayed, even when a USB stick containing the update in the correct location is connected, reboot the camera and try again.
• If updating to Debian (software v0.4.0 or later):
  • Follow the directions onscreen to write the new software to the SD card in the top slot of the camera.
• If updating to Arago (software v0.3.2-patch2 or earlier):
  • During the update, the screen will go blank and an Applying Update message may be displayed.
  • After approximately 30 to 60 seconds, the update will be complete and the camera will restart.

Updating Chronos software on Debian

• Connect your camera to the internet via the ethernet port on the side of the camera.
• Press the Apply Software Update button under Util->Storage. A window titled Software updates will show.
• Package Repository:
  • Choose “voyager” (default) if you want to use the stable release.
  • Choose “unstable” only if you want to try out the latest untested, and usually buggy, software where development occurs.
• User Interface:
  • Choose “Chronos Legacy” if you want the old UI
  • Choose “Chronos 2.1” if you want the newer, more intuitive “GUI 2” written in the Python programing language. GUI 2 is still buggy and incomplete, but you can record and save videos.

Building a Release Package to be applied on top of Arago (software v0.3.2-patch2 or earlier)

You can build a release package directly from the git repository as follows:

• Install the git-lfs package for your operating system, or follow the installation instructions at https://git-lfs.github.com/
• Clone the https://github.com/krontech/chronos-updates/ repository.
• If making a camUpdate package for upgrade-to-debian(which writes a debian image to the SD card in the top slot):
  • create a Debian SD image using the "Creating Debian Images" section of doc/DEBIAN.md, and compress it with gzip.
  • Rename it to "debian.img.gz".
  • Put that file into the root of this repository.
• Build the zip package.
  • Run make to build a .zip package for updating to newer software on arago.
  • Run make debian to build a .zip package containing a compressed Debian image and the update-to-debian app, which runs on the camera and uncompresses the image and writes it to the SD card in the camera's top slot.