TRIK controller firmware

Instructions for Windows, Linux and Ubuntu

Choose your operating system:

• Windows

• Linux

• Ubuntu

Windows

1. Download the latest firmware image. 2. Download and install DiskImager.

Installing DiskImager

Attention! You will need administrator permissions to install and use DiskImager.

3. Remove the microSD card from the TRIK controller. 4. Insert it into your computer using a card reader. 5. Start DiskImager. To change the language, select About → Language in the menu.

6. Select the disc letter to write.

7. Click the «Restore drives from» button.

8. In the window that appears, filter the files by type .xz and select the downloaded file.

9. Click "Open".

10. Wait for the operation to complete.

Linux

1. Download the latest firmware image. 2. Remove the microSD card from the TRIK controller. 3. Insert it into your computer using a card reader. 4. If the SD card has the correct partition table (the first partition is at least 2 GB, ext4 file system), then go to step 18. 5. Get superuser (root) rights:

sudo -i

6. Look at the devices that are currently connected to the computer:

fdisk -l

7. Unmount all SD card partitions using the umount command.

umount /dev/{first SD card partition}
umount /dev/{second SD card partition}
...

Example:

umount /dev/sdb1

8. Select the inserted microSD card:

fdisk /dev/{device}

Example:

fdisk /dev/sdb

9. View the current partition table using the p command.

p

10. Remove any existing partitions using the d command.

d

11. Make sure all partitions are removed:

p

12. Create a new partition using the n command.

n

13. Leave all parameters, except the size, by default - press Enter. Specify +2G for the query “Last sector, + sectors or + size {K, M, G}”.

Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
     p     primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
     e     extended
Select (default p):
Partition number (1-4, default 1):
First sector (4096-784932712):
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G}: +2G

14. Create a partition on the remainder of the SD card using the n command. Leave all parameters as default.

Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
     p     primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
     e     extended
Select (default p):
Partition number (1-4, default 1):
First sector (4096-784932712):
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G}:

15. Check with the p command what happened.

p

16. Apply changes using the w command.

w

17. Format partitions with mkfs.ext4 commands.

mkfs.ext4 /dev/{раздел}

Example:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb2

18. Unmount the first partition using the umount command.

sudo umount /dev/{first partition}

Example:

sudo umount /dev/sdb1

19. Unpack the downloaded firmware image using the Archive Manager. 20. Copy the unpacked image to the SD card using the dd command.

sudo dd bs=4M if=trik-base-v2-trikboard.ext4 of=/dev/{first partion}

Example:

sudo dd bs=4M if=trik-base-v2-trikboard.ext4 of=/dev/sdb1

Ubuntu

Instructions for version 14.04 and older.

1. Download the latest firmware image. 2. Remove the microSD card from the TRIK controller. 3. Insert it into your computer using a card reader. 4. Open the location of the downloaded firmware image in the file manager. 5. Call the context menu by right-clicking on the archive and select the first item "Open" in" Create bootable disk ". 6. From the drop-down menu, select the drive to which you want to burn the firmware. Then click the "Start Recovery" button.