dmenezes
Newly Enlightened
Per my post on BLF:
So here it is: Updatetool_GYRFALCON_S8000-1.0-x86_64.AppImage
This is a straight port to Linux of Enova's Firmware Upgrade Tool originally written for Windows, so if you are wary of doing it using a VM (which can be unreliable as the charger disconnects and reconnects from the USB port during the upgrade -- ask me how I know ;-) ), and/or tired of rebooting your PC to Windows and then back to Linux just for that (as I certainly was, having gone through quite a few firmware releases as Enova kindly implemented my suggestions and asked me to test them), SUFFER NO MORE: SALVATION IS AT HAND and now you can upgrade your firmware directly from straight honest-to-Dog Linux! Yay! 😃
It's a single-file binary, and does not need any installation: just put the downloaded file somewhere convenient (eg your desktop or wherever you keep your Gyrfalcon stuff), give it execute permission (`chmod +x` or the equivalent on your GUI/File Manager), and execute it. Listo, Presto & Pronto, away it goes!
It's been packaged using the AppImage standard so it should run in basically *any* Linux distro, version and kernel, from AntiX and Arch all the way down [the list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions) to ZipSlack and Zorin, as long as it's recent enough to support plug-and-playing of USB ports and has a driver for the CH34x chip the Gyrfalcon chargers use; I've already tested it on Devuan Daedalus (systemd-free fork of Debian Bookworm) which is their most recent stable version, Ubuntu 18.04 (launched in 2018 and EOL'ed since 2023) and even Fedora 21 (from way back in 2014!) and it worked on all of them.
This is a call for testers, so please go ahead and test it to your heart's content! And please let me know what distro you tested it on, and what the results were, be they positive or negative.
Also please be aware that there's always some risk in running any piece of software; I am sure the above is free from viruses or any kind of malware as I compiled it (and use it) myself, and I don't think your charger is at any risk of being bricked or whatever as Enova's firmware upgrade protocol is pretty reliable and resilient, but as ever there are no guarantees.
That said, I really want this tested by more people, and thanks everyone in advance for your help with that!
TIA!
So here it is: Updatetool_GYRFALCON_S8000-1.0-x86_64.AppImage
This is a straight port to Linux of Enova's Firmware Upgrade Tool originally written for Windows, so if you are wary of doing it using a VM (which can be unreliable as the charger disconnects and reconnects from the USB port during the upgrade -- ask me how I know ;-) ), and/or tired of rebooting your PC to Windows and then back to Linux just for that (as I certainly was, having gone through quite a few firmware releases as Enova kindly implemented my suggestions and asked me to test them), SUFFER NO MORE: SALVATION IS AT HAND and now you can upgrade your firmware directly from straight honest-to-Dog Linux! Yay! 😃
It's a single-file binary, and does not need any installation: just put the downloaded file somewhere convenient (eg your desktop or wherever you keep your Gyrfalcon stuff), give it execute permission (`chmod +x` or the equivalent on your GUI/File Manager), and execute it. Listo, Presto & Pronto, away it goes!
It's been packaged using the AppImage standard so it should run in basically *any* Linux distro, version and kernel, from AntiX and Arch all the way down [the list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions) to ZipSlack and Zorin, as long as it's recent enough to support plug-and-playing of USB ports and has a driver for the CH34x chip the Gyrfalcon chargers use; I've already tested it on Devuan Daedalus (systemd-free fork of Debian Bookworm) which is their most recent stable version, Ubuntu 18.04 (launched in 2018 and EOL'ed since 2023) and even Fedora 21 (from way back in 2014!) and it worked on all of them.
This is a call for testers, so please go ahead and test it to your heart's content! And please let me know what distro you tested it on, and what the results were, be they positive or negative.
Also please be aware that there's always some risk in running any piece of software; I am sure the above is free from viruses or any kind of malware as I compiled it (and use it) myself, and I don't think your charger is at any risk of being bricked or whatever as Enova's firmware upgrade protocol is pretty reliable and resilient, but as ever there are no guarantees.
That said, I really want this tested by more people, and thanks everyone in advance for your help with that!
TIA!
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