rick gurnee Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 I have bought about 20 CTB16PC controllers over the past five years. I want to upgrade the firmware to take advantage of the faster speeds. However, there appears to be different firmware for the Gen 2 and Gen 3 controllers. How do I tell which type I have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james campbell Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 just use the hardware utility it will tell you what version you have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 The second generation boards have a red status light. The third generation ones have a green light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james campbell Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 The second generation boards have a red status light. The third generation ones have a green light.and the cunning old vet come through with the obvious and easiest way to tell the two apart. geese us new guys try to make stuff too hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick gurnee Posted April 26, 2013 Author Share Posted April 26, 2013 Being color blind, I didn't notice the difference in color. Anyway, it appears most of mine are second generation and have either v4.32 or v4.40. I will upgrade them all to v4.40. However, I have 4 boxes that I bought in March 2012 that are generation 3 and now I'm confused. The box has firmware 16PC-G3 Ver 1.04. When I go to the website it shows CTB16PG3 Ver 1.05 is the latest for the commercial controller and CTB16PG2 Ver 1.06 is the latest for the residential controller. I have the residential controller in the plastic box, but it appears I have the commercial firmware! Any suggestions what I should upgrade to? (or not upgrade). Or should I open a ticket with LightORama? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasmadrive Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 I am not so sure G2 will do super speed.. will they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EARLE W. TALLEY Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Rick, the boards that have v4.32 will not update to v4.40, and the ones that have 4.40 is the lastest firmware for that board.If you look in the center of the board at the bottom the one that has V4.32 is a version 1 board and the other is a version 2 board.I am pretty sure this is correct.Earle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick gurnee Posted April 27, 2013 Author Share Posted April 27, 2013 OK, so I won't be upgrading any of my CTB16PC controllers. I don't really need any extra speed on that network. I will be upgrading all of my CCR's from 1.07 to 1.10. Even the new ones I just bought are at 1.07. The CCR's are on a different network. Last year I had 4 CCR's on one network. This year I plan on having 12 on one network. I'll have to run some tests but I think that with the upgraded firmware I shouldn't have any slowdowns. If I do, I'll split it into two networks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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