Ardrone firmware update

  1. Download the version you want on our PC (the firmware plf files are on $ROBOTICS/Robots/ARDrone/Firmware)
  2. Power up your AR.Drone
  3. Connect your computer to the AR.Drone’s network
  4. Connect a FTP client to 192.168.1.1 ( pc> ftp 192.168.1.1 (login root without passwd))
  5. Upload the downloaded plf file to the FTP server ftp> bin , ftp> put ardrone_update.plf)
  6. Open a telnet session to 192.168.1.1 (pc> telnet 192.168.1.1)
  7. Move the firmware on the right place (ardrone> mv /data/video/ardrone_update.plf /update/ardrone_update.plf)
  8. You can check the version text files which contains the present version number (ardrone> cat/update/version.txt /firmware/version.txt)
  9. You can check the plf file with the version number (ardrone> /bin/checkplf /update/ardrone_update.plf numversion)
  10. Disconnect your computer from the AR.Drone
  11. Disconnect the battery from the AR.Drone
  12. Reconnect the battery
  13. Wait (about 5 minutes while the upgrade completes)

-- RogerPissard - 06 Aug 2013
Topic revision: r1 - 06 Aug 2013, RogerPissard
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