# Issues with WiFi shield

**URL:** <https://forums.openmv.io/t/issues-with-wifi-shield/1483>\
**Category:** OpenMV Boards\
**Created:** [November 14, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/issues-with-wifi-shield/1483 "2019-11-14T12:59:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![lionel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@lionel](https://forums.openmv.io/u/lionel)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/issues-with-wifi-shield/1483/1 "2019-11-14T12:59:38Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![noiseboy72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@noiseboy72](https://forums.openmv.io/u/noiseboy72)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/issues-with-wifi-shield/1483/2 "2019-11-14T14:48:58Z")

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I’m seeing the same issue.

You can find the latest firmware here: [Releases · openmv/openmv · GitHub](https://github.com/openmv/openmv/releases)

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

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**Author:** ![iabdalkader](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.openmv.io/iabdalkader/32/1169_2.png) [@iabdalkader](https://forums.openmv.io/u/iabdalkader)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/issues-with-wifi-shield/1483/3 "2019-11-14T15:59:11Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![lionel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@lionel](https://forums.openmv.io/u/lionel)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/issues-with-wifi-shield/1483/4 "2019-11-25T09:24:36Z")

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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.

; )