14.x works on 430 SMs in interop mode only. Like Sean said, if you want
them to talk to a 430 AP again, they'll have to be downgraded to 13.4.1
manually. But if all of your 430 APs are now out of the picture, who cares.
Yes, 15.0 is for the 450m, but it's also required for 450 and 450i SMs
to talk to a 450m AP. The release notes say that 15.0.0.1 is
functionally equivalent to 14.2.1 on 450 and 450i.
We're at 14.1.2 on 450 and 450i for now. It definitely feels more stable
than 13.2.1. Like I said before, features are nice, but I need
stability. Maybe I should bite the bullet and go to 14.2.1/15.0.0.1, but
I know I had problems with new SMs out of the box on 13.2.1 talking to
14.2.x APs. Which I can't have since I'm sure there's like 30 SMs in
trucks that I don't know about. Maybe every quarter I should tell the
guys to empty their trucks so I can load the latest software. No,
they'll forget about the ones they have stashed away.
On 10/19/2016 8:47 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Do you have a link to that? I just checked and 14.1.2, 14.2.1 and
15.0 all say 450/450i/450m no mention of 430, also on the download
page if you select 430 the latest FW shown is 13.4.1.
We gained a lot of stability with 14.1.2 and it would be nice if we
could bring the 430 SMs up to that. I’m not so sure about 14.2.1, and
15.0 seems to be mostly to support 450m.
*From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Sean Heskett
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 19, 2016 6:38 PM
*To:* af@afmug.com
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 13.4.1 on PMP430 and alignment tone
Thru auto update from the AP over the air 430 SMs can and should be
brought up to whatever firmware the AP is using.
If you need to connect the 430SM back to a 430 AP you'll need to
manually downgrade the SM to 13.4.1 tho.
It's in all the 14.x release notes.
-Sean
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com
<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote:
We have changed out all our 430 Aps for 450i, but still have a
bunch of 430 SMs running in 450 compatibility mode. My techs keep
telling me when they do service calls, that alignment tone is
broken on those SMs. The first time I figured bad hardware since
some roofers had bonked the dish, but as it keeps happening, I’m
realizing it must be the firmware.
I remember some FW release broke alignment tone on the 450 SMs and
so we waited until the fixed it. I don’t remember which release
broke it and which release fixed it.
But the release notes tell you that for compatibility with 450i
you should have 430 SMs on 13.4.1, plus I think that’s the end of
the line for 430, right? We can’t go to 14.1.2 which is what we
have on all our 450 stuff.
Does anyone know if in fact alignment tone is non functional on a
430 SM with 13.4.1?
