OK, that provides some clarity but also more confusion.  Not sure I’m looking 
at the same document as you,  I see Introduction on page 5.

 

But in the 14.1.2 release notes, I see nothing about 430 at all.

 

In the 14.2.1 release notes, I do see a Note that 430 SMs must first go to 
14.1.2 before 14.2.1, and a Note they will no longer be able to talk to a 430 
AP.  I am not seeing anything about having to do the upgrade over the air 
(which is really strange IMHO).  Are you seeing this explicitly stated in the 
release notes, or inferring it from the fact that 13.4.1 is that last download 
listed on the website for 430?

 

 

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sean Heskett
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 9:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 13.4.1 on PMP430 and alignment tone

 

Software release notes for 14.2.1 in the introduction on page 3 gives the best 
description. (I think it's on or near the same page with the other releases but 
I'm on my phone so it's hard to scan thru them all) 

 

The update has to be done over the air thru SMs auto update tho.  You can't 
upgrade a 430 SM on the bench past 13.4.1.

 

-Sean



On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, Ken Hohhof <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > 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:[email protected] 
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> ] On Behalf Of Sean 
Heskett
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 6:38 PM
To: [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> 
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 <[email protected] 
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > 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?

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