SOtM smS-200 unveiled at Munich Hi-End

[Philippe Bill]

did you modify the browser (F5, sleep, aso ..) during the upgrade?

[MGX-UK]

28 minutes ago, Philippe Bill said:

did you modify the browser (F5, sleep, aso ..) during the upgrade?

Before I started I reburned a fresh 5.1 sd card. Inserted in sms200 and never changed any settings . 

In my PC settings I turned power settings to never sleep including the monitor. I never touched my PC until it finished. Set your PC like this before you start please look at the photo.  

It took 3 hours ...

Hope this works for you  

[Philippe Bill]

23 minutes ago, MGX-UK said:

Before I started I reburned a fresh 5.1 sd card. Inserted in sms200 and never changed any settings . 

In my PC settings I turned power settings to never sleep including the monitor. I never touched my PC until it finished. Set your PC like this before you start please look at the photo.  

It took 3 hours ...

+1

[audiobomber]

1 hour ago, MGX-UK said:

Before I started I reburned a fresh 5.1 sd card. Inserted in sms200 and never changed any settings . 

In my PC settings I turned power settings to never sleep including the monitor. I never touched my PC until it finished. Set your PC like this before you start please look at the photo.  

It took 3 hours ...

Hope this works for you  

I usually have my laptop set for two hours before entering sleep mode. It did not go into sleep mode during the previous update attempts, but for thoroughness, I set it up to never enter sleep mode, and did not use the computer during the final attempt. Same result, Error 1.

[5-pot-fan]

Well, it worked this time, with thanks to some of you.

The clincher was re-writing the SD card. All the settings on my PC were as per sotm spec, but the 4th update also failed, and then it would not find the upgrade starting point when asked.

So, the card re-write, then a 3 hour wait and there it was - all done.

Now to find out what it's all about.....

[Philippe Bill]

SOtM : "The new Eunhasu firmware is going to be released soon and it will be the version no. 0.5.2"

... temporarily no longer available !?!

[MGX-UK]

Really? Where did you find this information. 

[Philippe Bill]

""The new Eunhasu firmware is going to be released soon and it will be the version no. 0.5.2.""

https://www.sotm-audio.com/sotmwp/english/eunhasu-firmware-ver-no-0-5-2/

[audiobomber]

2 hours ago, Philippe Bill said:

""The new Eunhasu firmware is going to be released soon and it will be the version no. 0.5.2.""

https://www.sotm-audio.com/sotmwp/english/eunhasu-firmware-ver-no-0-5-2/

At first I thought you had just found an old news brief, but it appears V5.2 is on hold for now. I am on V5.1, and my Eunhasu page does not show an available update: "Already installed the last version. No need to upgrade." 

[5-pot-fan]

That probably explains why my sms200 would not look for an update yesterday after I had updated to 5.2!

Anyway, today it decided to play without the left channel so back to a fresh install of 5.1

It has given me time today to play around with Moode Audio and again with piCoreplayer. I like both of these and have a slight preference for the SQ from Moode, possibly because I get much higher volume from that through my DAC and into my pre-amp than I do from the sms200 (the SQ change is apparent after I turn the pre-amp volume down - it's not just a loudness thing).

I await Eunhasu v5.2 in the near future.

[MasterWarzombie]

I don't understand, we are already in the latest version 0.5.2

[audiobomber]

49 minutes ago, MasterWarzombie said:

I don't understand, we are already in the latest version 0.5.2

Clearly there was a problem for some to load it. I'm sure it will be back shortly.

[stefano_mbp]

Firmware image 0.5.2 is now available for download

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1Jx6DwYE10vkwUpUCqXo4zgkg6IT3dVm9

[MasterWarzombie]

3 hours ago, stefano_mbp said:

Firmware image 0.5.2 is now available for download

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1Jx6DwYE10vkwUpUCqXo4zgkg6IT3dVm9

if the update was carried out via the network, should the image be reflashed on the SD card?

[stefano_mbp]

No of course. It is just an alternative if you have problems with the OTA update 

[audiobomber]

Excerpt from May Park email yesterday:

"we temporarily blocked the firmware upgrade since there have been some reports that should need to check again"

[MasterWarzombie]

On 11/15/2021 at 7:55 AM, afrancois said:

Update went well.

 

Using an Uptone ER and Roon. 

 

Roon says an audio file is loading slowly. The upgrade bricked my system. It has become unusable.

 

Removing the ER seems to do the trick. This is bad news for ER owners.

you still have your worries?  because at home, I have no worries between my ER and ROON etc ...

[afrancois]

11 hours ago, MasterWarzombie said:

you still have your worries?  because at home, I have no worries between my ER and ROON etc ...

No, everything seems to be working fine right now.

 

I can’t really explain what happened.

 

I updated and rebooted my QNAP and gone problem. However, Roon worked perfectly with my IPad as playback before the reboot, so it was only the sms having problems.

[Tannoymike]

Not sure if the latest firmware is still undergoing changes but for the last two days when I try to update my SOTM it indicates that the site is under maintenance so still unable to update.

[Tannoymike]

Tried to download update still failed at around 50% so decided to burn a new image of firmware 5.2 to a new micro sd card. This seems to be a much better way of updating, all worked fine and didn't take as long. My only negative was the SOTM recommended USB Image program (link supplied by SOTM) only seems to recogize usb attached drives not micro sd card adapters which seems stupid to me as the SOTM firmware is installed on a micro sd card, luckily I had a sd card to USB adapter.

[audiobomber]

Two more attempts to download the new V5.2 online, two more fails. The imaging method went smoothly, but I wasn't sure how to use the included RPi software, so I used Balena Etcher.

 

For those who used the RPi imager, did you select the "recommended" RPi OS, or another?

[Lolroy]

I am on 0.5.2 and this update made my MPD stopped working.

 

Librespot is working however…

 

basically when i try to start MPD via the play button, the spinning animation goes on forever.  I have made tea, coffee, hot chocolate and took a dump and it’s still spinning. Gave up waiting after an hour.

 

the green LED on the left is solid and the one on the right is blinking. 
 

Anyone has any insights to this? Previously MPD has no issue via Soundirok, currently I can’t get MPD to be active. 
 

thanks in advance 

[stefano_mbp]

@Lolroy try to uninstall MPD and install it again, when I updated mine sms200 MPD was missing.

[ClothEars]

I am having problems with the new version 5.2.

Using MPD a glitch occurs every 30 seconds or so.  It sounds like a scratch on a record.

I'm going back to my backup SD card and v5.1 until it's fixed.

[stefano_mbp]

5 hours ago, ClothEars said:

I am having problems with the new version 5.2

 

17 hours ago, stefano_mbp said:

try to uninstall MPD and install it again