Installing zbitxre

zbitxre replaces the old software on a zBitx or an sBitx v3. Your settings and logbook come across, and the old software is kept: you can go back to it.

It is installed once, from a terminal on the radio’s screen, by typing one line. The steps, with that line, are at my.sbitx.net/upgrade. Follow them there: they are kept up to date.

After that, the radio updates itself from SET: see Updating zbitxre.

• On a zBitx, the install turns off the radio’s own WiFi access point, which many zBitxes came with for the old software. A zBitx running zbitxre is a WiFi client only: the access point beside the client loses much of what the radio sends and receives. undo_install.sh turns it back on.
• On a zBitx whose front panel has the old firmware, the terminal says the front panel needs the USB cable. That is done once, as the Upgrade page shows: radio off, any cable unplugged from the micro-USB port marked CAT, the tuning knob held in while the radio is switched on, then a USB cable from the CAT port (not the one marked USB) to a computer and front_panel.uf2 copied onto the drive that appears. After that, every update gives the panel its firmware by itself.