hi guys: I wonder how to check the firmware version. Is there any way to do it?

@mikelo The most available way is, on the web ide, select devices and click the arrow">" beside the device you want to look at, this shows the device information, your device id no and the firmware version.

Place the device in Listening mode and use a serial terminal to send v for a firmware version check

[image] Determining the version of system firmware on a Photon/P1 Firmware Here’s how you can determine what version of system firmware is installed on your device: connect your device to your computer with a USB cable press the SETUP button for 3 seconds to enter se…

what do you mean “to connect to the device press ‘v’” ? do I have to put it in dfu mode? and what kind of command I should type in? I was in dfu mode and in command line on Mac OSX. There nothing happen like what you mentioned in the post, after I press v or s.

[image] mikelo: do I have to put it in dfu mode? [image] kennethlimcp: Place the device in Listening mode [image] mdma: press the SETUP button for 3 seconds to enter setup mode. Setup mode = listening mode (blinking blue) [image] mikelo: what kind of command I should type …

I press v or s, it says command not found.

Is your device connected and in listening mode? And where do you press that command?

in terminal of Mac OSX. I type in “screen”. and then it turn the thing into bash, then I’ve tried s or v. The responses are command not found.

Could you try it with coolterm?

How to see the firmware version and how to update it to most current version

Firmware

mdma September 7, 2015, 11:35am 5

to update

npm install -g particle-cli
# put device in DFU mode
particle update

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