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Ethernet - LAN Audio - AES67 & Livewire firmware upgrades (PCI Express cards)


Upgrade the Ethernet - LAN Audio - AES67 firmware to the latest version
 

Ethernet - LAN Audio - AES67 & Livewire firmware upgrades (PCI Express cards)


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You may not need to download this upgrade if you've recently installed the latest Universal All Product Instaler. The most recent upgrade files are automatically stored on your computer in C:\Program Files (x86)\SOUND4\Remote Control\Upgrades.
To upgrade your processor's Ethernet - LAN Audio - AES67 & Livewire, follow these steps:
  1. Download the release or preview version.
  1. Launch the Remote Control Software and log in.
  1. Open "Setup" and select "Upgrade / Licenses."
  1. Click the "Upgrade Ethernet" button.
  1. Select the upgrade file you've downloaded.
Release version v2.0.34 - 2024-10-14
Preview version v2.0.35 - 2025-03-31
Ethernet - LAN Audio - AES67 & Livewire earlier firmware versions
Ethernet - LAN Audio - AES67 & Livewire firmware changelog

2.0


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Compatible with new GUI (Need Server/Remote 4.0.0)

2.0.35

(Preview 2025-03-31)
  • Advertising : Correct Livewire sending unstable information, Logs improvements

2.0.34

(2024-10-14)
  • Advertising : Can choose to automatically disable unused advertisement
  • Advertising : better automatic memory limitation

2.0.33

(Testing - 2024-10-10)
  • Advertising : limit stored sessions to ~4000 to avoid out of memory
  • More aggressive input filter of multicast packets to avoid drops due to unwanted packets

2.0.32

(2023-12-01)
  • Correct multicast failure break initialization (Livewire No clock received) [BUG in 2.0.30 and 2.0.31]

2.0.31

(2023-02-16)
  • Protect booting with slow switches (Cisco) which results in "Nothing received".
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      BUG: When multiple inputs are on the same channel at boot, the Livewire clock is not received.

2.0.30

(Testing - 2022-11-28)
  • Protect some unlikely errors, for fixing startup nonworking streams
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      BUG: When multiple inputs are on the same channel at boot, the Livewire clock is not received.

2.0.29

(2021-04-09)
  • Fix PTP timestamp race condition, which can lead to reboot when traffic is too heavy

2.0.28

(2021-03-24)
  • Can specify PTP Announce/Request Interval and Timeout
  • Support IGMP v3 (Experimental)

2.0.27

(2021-02-23)
Livewire GPIO: reversed hardware level logic from previous version
  • Revert the GPIO logic level for Livewire. For Axia, a Low level is active (and not high)

2.0.26

(2020-06-19)
  • Corrected: AES67 Slave clock does not switch from a Master to another

2.0.25

(2019-12-02)
  • Corrected: Default broadcast is not applied
  • Correct scale so upgrading from old version does not remove AES67 input settings.

2.0.24

(2019-11-26)
  • Corrected handling of 1-channel stream (copy left channel to right)
  • Better PTP timestamping (rx timestamp pool empty)

2.0.23

(2019-10-10)
  • Corrections for Dante compatibility (constant o= in SDP for reconnexion after reboot ; accept numbers in Session name)

2.0.21

(2019-04-30)
  • Avoid to save volatile data in flash
  • Other minor changes

2.0.20

(2019-03-28)
  • Change DSP for Dante compatibility.
  • Corrected SAP session name check
  • Corrected Livewire GPO snake reconnect

2.0.19

(2018-11-29)
  • Corrected mDNS and SAP advertising
  • Corrected PTP internal sync
  • Corrections for GPIO display in data description
  • (cards) NEEDS Board 1.4.11

2.0.18

(2018-10-30)
  • Manage Livewire GPIO.

2.0.17

(2018-10-22)
  • SAP advertising
  • Unicode corrections

2.0.16

(2018-10-01)
  • Reduce log

2.0.15

(2018-09-27)
  • Correct internal sync when Livewire master
  • Show error when LANAUDIO Hostname is in conflict
  • Force IGMP v2 for Cisco Catalyst
  • Hostname 63 characters
  • DNS-SD reply correction
  • Don't allow Master when IP is not set
  • Status bar should not show errors on channels out of license

2.0.14

(2018-06-22)
  • License management correction for sharing stream (On Both L/R, Separated L/R)
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BUG: problems with URL, Hostname, ...

2.0.13

(2018-05-03)
  • Realtime optimization
  • Faster recovery after Ethernet replug
  • Can now use ISO chars for Channel names

2.0.12

  • Can deactivate MDNS advertising

2.0.10

  • Improved Multicast management and packet drops (Debug version without mdnsd, rtsp and ptpmng)
  • Increased watchdog timeout to 5s

2.0.8

  • Corrected sync regul to be stable when sync packet is late or sync is lost
  • Corrected memory leak

2.0.7

  • Memory use optimization
  • Potential race condition corrected
  • Better Multicast packet management

2.0.6

  • Livewire Live Audio: buffer size works
  • Correct synchro loss on packet reordered
  • NOTE: previous setting was doing nothing in real

2.0.5

  • AES67: when adress is IP, can select format (so works with raw streams)
  • NOTE: new internal browser

2.0.4

  • Correct Livewire protocol extra double-quote after LABL

2.0.3

  • Correct Livewire Payload (value can be incompatible with some Livewire parts).
  • Was using the AES67 Custom Format to choose Payload number.
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BUG: Livewire protocol has LABL with double quote (LABL:"Ch2"" SHAB:0 FASM:1 BASM:1)

2.0.2

  • Correct internal memory leaks.
  • Advertising (SpiSkt) more robust.
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BUG: Livewire protocol has LABL with double quote (LABL:"Ch2"" SHAB:0 FASM:1 BASM:1)

2.0.1

  • Compatible with new GUI (Need Server/Remote 4.0.0)