Software Upgrade

The Software Upgrade page is where you can browse to the path location of software upgrade file, and upload it to the broadcaster across your LAN or the Internet.

Note: The software upgrade file must have a name starting with "dsb" followed by the date, such as dsb-yy-mm-dd (for example dsb-09-08-29).

Note: The upgrade file is of an accumulative nature, which means that normally you only need to use the latest upgrade file to keep your system most up-to-date. It contains the firmware of the Broadcaster and all Receivers and Splitters.

Note: We highly recommend you save your settings before doing a software upgrade.

When you receive the upgrade file, first copy it to a local computer. Then use the DSNet Management to perform the update across your LAN or across the Internet.

Performing a Software Upgrade

In the main menu select File/Update Software... Then hit the Browse button to browse to the location of the upgrade file. Select the upgrade file and then click Upload. A progress indicator bar will be running to indicate the on-going upload process. Depending on the upgrade file size and also the bandwidth available across the network, the file upload time can vary from 2 minutes to 20 minutes. When the upgrade process is complete, the Broadcaster will reboot by itself. After the reboot is complete, it should be working right away.

Note: Following an upgrade, all settings are reset to default factory values. For example the TCP/IP address is forced to 192.168.1.100 and the TCP/IP port is 5000. You can use our software tool "getipdev" freely available from our website or IPCenter to temporarily set some TCP/IP settings compatible with your network. Then by using DSNet Manager you can do permanent settings or restore the settings from a file.

Receiver and Splitter Firmware Upgrade

The upgrade file includes the firmware for the Splitters and Receivers. If this firmware is newer than the firmware currently installed on those networking devices, at first restart following the upgrade, the Broadcaster proceeds to a flash memory update of all networking devices across the network. This firmware upgrade takes a few minutes, so be patient. You may feel that the Broadcaster does not restart because there is no display of this activity into DSNet Manager.

Note that this automatic firmware update happens only once at the first reboot after a software upgrade. If some devices are not powered on at this time, or are added to the network later, they will not be updated automatically. You can still force a global firmware update or a device update (See Spitter Box and Receiver Box).