How to Update Firstech OP500 and/or Brain Modules Without Login
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Topic: How to Update Firstech OP500 and/or Brain Modules Without Login
Posted By: ace_boy2099
Subject: How to Update Firstech OP500 and/or Brain Modules Without Login
Date Posted: December 31, 2018 at 5:32 PM
Anyone know how I could go about updating my op500 or brain boxes for my compustar systems (cm5000 and cm6000, both alarm starter systems) if they need them without having a login to firstech data site?
What's the latest firmwares? Anyone know how to tell what the op500 is running? Looks like I have the updates for ver 9 but dont know if I'd installed it. I know the instructions for finding out the firmware of the units is in the install manuals.
I'd tried searching, but didnt see my question in the results, I didnt look through the 1500+ pages of this topics genre page by page.
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Posted By: kreg357
Date Posted: December 31, 2018 at 7:15 PM
If you have the ADS USB cable and iDatalink access the CM5x00, CM6x00 and CM7x00 brains can be checked,
updated and configured at this WEB site : https://compustar.idatalink.com/
As far as updating the OP-500 programmer, it is possible but not real easy. I think the current firmware
update is Version 26. I did the update back in June of 2015 and it still works on all models. I just
uploaded the OP-500 Manual. Here is a link : https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/file.asp?ID=1424
The firmware upgrade process is shown on the last few pages of the manual.
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Posted By: ace_boy2099
Date Posted: January 01, 2019 at 9:07 PM
When I get to it (the alarm(s)) I'll try that idatalink site, Hopefully I don't have to make a login with business info that I don't have.
That user manual you uploaded is the same one I have already, However when I go to the link in it to get the updates the page can't be found (Compustar has, since issuing that manual, changed their site, pretty radically I might add); With that I am unable to find any "updates" for the brains/OP500 like I was able to when I first looked into them (The ones I have saved locally). Upon looking around (google search results) I'd found a .PDF (and a youtube video too) about "how to update the OP500" and it mentions some software, I don't have that, or any update.zip files beyond "...EX_9..." for the 500. is there somewhere online that google may have missed (Yeah, I know, Unlikely) that I'd be able to get the OP's update from? or is mine gonna be stuck at whatever it's at (9 if it's even installed) Since I don't have a "Dealer Login" for for Firstech's site? I kind of wish I did, Then maybe they'd talk to me about why my drone (dr3100) isn't communicating, But that's for a different topic.
Sorry Long Winded. XP
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