Issues with WiFi shield

OpenMV Products
1

Hi,

I have the openMV IDE 2.2, openMV H7 board and a WiFi shield ATWINC1500-MR210PB.

I have updated the firmware of the openMV H7 board to the 3.5.0 version (latest version in Nov 2019).

My issue is that

if I try to connect the Wifi shield using the example script “connect.py”, an error message pop up: “Failed to initialize WINC1500 module: Firmware version mistmatch”

The I try to upgrade the WiFi module using “fw_update.py”. The header of the script mentions that
the latest firmware (19.6.1) only works on ATWINC1500-MR210PB thatt is exactly the Wifi shield that I have.
And the script try to update for the latest firmware contained in the binary winc_19_6_1.bin.

When I execute the script another error shows up: “Could not find the file”.

I checked the folder \OpenMV IDE\share\qtcreator\firmware\WINC1500 but the
binary file winc_19_6_1.bin is not found. Only the winc_19_4_4.bin
and the winc_19_5_2.bin files are present.

I have tried to find the file “winc_19_6_1.bin” in the net but I did not succeed.

What can I try next?

Thanks

2

I’m seeing the same issue.

You can find the latest firmware here: Releases · openmv/openmv · GitHub

Download and unzip and the file is in the WINC1500 directory.

3

Yes please download the firmware from github, seems to be missing from the release now. Note when you copy the firmware to the uSD card make sure to eject/unmount the SD card before you reset the camera and then run the firmware update script.

4

Many thanks for your help and commentaries.

I managed to download the correct binary from github, and to perform the firmware update.

Now the wifi shield is working.

; )