Greg,

OK great, and so thanks again for your prompt reply :)

Leslaw


On Sep 21, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Greg Logan wrote:

> On 11-09-21 10:04 AM, Dr Leslaw Zieleznik wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>> 
>>> .  If that still doesn't work then
>>> please let us know and we can look at alternatives.
>> 
>> Oh, I have just placed the order for the pilot system I am installing
>> for my university!
>> According to your experience as I have none, is it still worth to get
>> the device or cancel the order?
> 
> For sure!  There are lots of people who have them and (I assume) have
> upgraded them.  The earlier versions of the firmware have an issue where
> the OS creates a couple of large files in memory, and then does not have
> enough free memory to update the firmware.  This has since been fixed,
> but obviously some of the shipped devices are still encountering the bug.
> 
> I believe setting the encoding settings as low as they will go should
> free up enough memory, but if not there are remote support options which
> do work for sure.
> 
> G
> 
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Leslaw
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 21, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Greg Logan wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11-09-20 11:13 PM, Kristof Keppens wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> We recently bought 2 Epiphan Capture Appliances to use with our new 1.2
>>>> servers. Unfortunately we're experiencing some issues with the
>>>> configuration. I first tried to configure the ECA but it seemed no
>>>> requests ever reached the server. After saving the matterhorn config
>>>> form the page also seemed to hang, just kept loading. When then going
>>>> back to admin and matterhorn page the settings seemed to be saved but no
>>>> message of that appeared and also the device never registered on the
>>>> server.
>>> 
>>> The stock firmware has a bug that prevents it from properly registering
>>> with a 1.2 core.  I've since corrected it, but it does require an
>>> upgrade to the newest (2.2.0d, should be out this week hopefully)
>>> firmware.
>>> 
>>>> I then noticed that there is a newer firmware, still on 2.2.0rc1 so
>>>> decided to try the upgrade first. On ECA 1 the upload succeeded but got
>>>> an internal server error. Now all admin pages on that ECA give an
>>>> internal server error.
>>>> On ECA 2 the upload failed with "Error uploading firmware file 3".
>>> 
>>> The devices have small amounts of memory inside and can misbehave
>>> sometimes when they need to upgrade their firmware.  I would remove
>>> power from both units for a minute or two, then restore power and
>>> immediately try and upgrade again.  If that still doesn't work then
>>> please let us know and we can look at alternatives.
>>> 
>>> G
>>> 
>>>> Can someone assist me in either the firmware upgrade or the matterhorn
>>>> config ?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks a lot!
>>>> 
>>>> Kristof Keppens
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