Peter
What's the significance of "unless your spare port is still configured to auto"? Is there something I have overlooked there
Hi Smaragd,
Maybe I didn't word that very well. -
By default all 4 USB ports are configured as 'auto' (see bottom of the PAW 'Configure' screen). If no changes have beeen made, we would naturally use the 'empty' port (normally top left, which is Port 1) for USB stick updates, but you say...
after starting PAW, removing GPS dongle once up and running, inserting stick, opening Updates page and pressing Check for Updates button, I just get a message:
"/root/servers/check.sh: Error. Cannot access update details"
There is nothing 'wrong', with that, but using the GPS dongle port for USB updates is a specific technique we developed when we discovered that if the USB stick is plugged into a port which has been re-configured for FLARM-in, ADSB-out and other options, this causes the process to go crazy as described above - either reacting to other data on the stick or trying to write loads of unwanted data to the stick. It is also not good to remove the WiFi dongle while the unit is running, so this left the SDR port or the better sited GPS port as the obvious choice for USB update for those of us running other external 'attachments'.
If you haven't re-configured any of your ports, Port 1 (top left) is therefore still the obvious choice for USB stick updates, though there is no reason why the gps or SDR port won't also work as long as they are still configured to auto.
Worth checking.
Regards
Peter