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.

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.

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.