OSTC firmware upgrade partially broken

Jef Driesen jef at libdivecomputer.org
Tue Aug 14 07:59:57 PDT 2018


On 2018-08-14 16:47, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> On Aug 14, 2018, at 7:40 AM, Jan Mulder <jlmulder at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> Since May 19, 2018 Heinrichs-Weikamp introduced something new with 
>> respect to firmware numbering. On that date a version was released 
>> called 2.97 SP1. As I found a simple bug related to CNS display 
>> yesterday, I was looking at the HW website and found out that I never 
>> had a message from Subsurface about this new version of the firmware.
>> 
>> Some observations:
>> 1) libdivecomputer seems to report the same (integer) version number 
>> for 2.97 and 2.97-SP1. I just upgraded my OSTC3+, and the version 
>> stays 609. This seems something for Jef, but not sure this breaks 
>> anything at the Subsurface end
> 
> We have the version string in Subsurface. Does that change? It
> certainly appears to deal with X.Y.Z plus a bit for 'beta'.
> You can see it under extra data.

That's the decoding of the OSTC4 firmware version. For the OSTC3 it's 
just X.Y

Jef


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