Updating extender on RCA RCRP05B

andyross · Post by **andyross** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:49 am

I've been using the 1.04 extender, and just realized that the latest is actually 1.05. Do I have to do anything special to update it, like remove or disable the original first?

unclemiltie · Post by **unclemiltie** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 11:59 am

Best practice is to keep the 1.04 in, deactivate the extender. Then take your 1.04 file and install the new extender into it and upload and activate.

andyross · Post by **andyross** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:38 pm

Hmm. I'm using RMIR, and when I try to import the 1.05 extender, it says 'No remote found that matches the merge file.' Is there a way to remove the extender within RMIR so I can update it to 1.05?

unclemiltie · Post by **unclemiltie** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:41 pm

you need to put the RDF for the 1.05 into the RDF directory. The tools can tell the difference between the different versions.

andyross · Post by **andyross** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:46 pm

I knew I forgot something. It does work, but resets all the devices.

For now, I think 1.04 is OK. I figured out the issue I was having was due to the interruptible pause. I found another post on how to disable that, and now a macro that needed a somewhat long pause works reliably. The memory locations are the same in 1.04 and 1.05.

unclemiltie · Post by **unclemiltie** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:49 pm

Yes, it will reset devices. (but device upgrades are in there)

This is due to a bug in Extinstall that had issues with "empty" device IDs, a bug that I never really felt like fixing. I'm sure that when Graham did the work on RMIR to bring in extinstall he probably fixed this, but I distribute the extender with zero for all of the devices so the extender install takes data in the extender and overwrites the data from the original file.