mpeg5
June 18, 2022, 11:44am
#1
Hi,
Today is an awesome day. I managed to purchase a used ER-101
Now I want to install the current firmware and find out that it is not possible to run the utility software on a current Apple MacBook.
Is there any other way to update the firmware?
Or do I need to buy an old computer for that?
Thanks and all the best.
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As the current Mac programmer isn’t supported on later OS versions, you’ll either need a PC running Windows… or you can use a Virtual Machine (VM) running Windows. This can be achieved on Mac easy. I use Virtual Box.
Once you have a running windows operating system, you can flash the firmware via the programmer instructions.
mpeg5
June 19, 2022, 7:19am
#3
Thanks for your reply.
I went there and installed a virtual machine with Parallelste Desktop Demo Version.
It is not working because M1 Chip…
The driver for the the ER-101 is not recognized on the VM.
I will have to source an old machine for this task.
Or you can just use dfuprogrammer.
https://dfu-programmer.github.io/
The command line should look something like this:
dfu-programmer at32uc3c1512 erase
dfu-programmer --suppress-bootloader-mem at32uc3c1512 flash firmware.hex
Obviously you will need to have the ER-101 connected in DFU mode. Also, you will lose all snapshots.
mpeg5
June 19, 2022, 9:19am
#5
Thanks, Brian.
I don’t know if command line stuff is for me… but I will have a look into this.
I was able to to get the programmer working on a Mac OS X 10.7.5.
I was lucky enough to find a old MacBook Pro to get it running.
Taylor
January 31, 2023, 3:51am
#7
@odevices Let me know if you need some help updating the programmer app
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I currently just use the DFU programmer on Mac via the CLI however if you wanted an interface it would be pretty straight forward to update this.