In the example below I have pointed to four different FW versions and chose to upload the FW 5.2. In VESC-Tool you can choose four different custom versions and easily hop in between them. You can have a folder with the relevant FW revisions you want to use with your device. All you need to do is download the desired FW revision and re-upload that FW onto your device.įor that purpose VESC-Tool offers the option to upload custom firmware. If you updated your device but you want to go back to an older FW revision you can still do so. Option a, manually loading older FW from a git repository:

In this post I will show you two ways to load older or simply different firmware:Ī) you use Vedders Github structure and download the required firmware and then you manually install it.ī) you use the convenient archive functionality built into VESC-Tool (see bottom of this post) Now you know why you can use the latest version of VESC-Tool and still be able to configure your ESC without needing to update the firmware. Since phone apps are typically kept up to date via the update manager, it makes sense to code an app in such a way and it also makes sense to have the desktop version matching the app version and vice versa. Therefore you can use the latest APP and desktop software to configure older FW revisions. It adapts itself to the FW found on the device. Without getting too technical here: VESC-Tool is not a static software any longer. The task was not an easy one! Since VESC-Tool offers features and settings that might not be supported in older FW revisions and things in the background might also have shifted into other places, VESC-Tool must recognise an older FW and then adopt the user interface and setting options according to the older FW. This was the case many years ago and for many reasons Vedder decided to make VESC-Tool compatible with older versions of VESC firmware to avoid the need to store multiple software versions of VESC-Tool. Many users believe that using an older FW requires to use an older VESC-Tool version. This thread aims at describing how VESC-Tool interacts with older FW and where to find a specific FW release.

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