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1. Port settings after mode 5 reset In some cases a mode 5 reset would cause http and telnet ports to be mapped to 65535 Additionally all serial ports would be set to configuration mode and would report verbose responses This has been corrected Fixed Issue DHCP renewal DHCPREQUEST upon IP renewal now follows more of a standard and will not produce DHCPNAKs from the DHCP server Added Feature Verbose responses for IR commands In previous firmware versions IR send commands would not generate a response in any verbose sessions except for the session that issued the command Now any session logged into the IPLink unit in verbose mode will see the response to IR send commands regardless of the source Added Feature E31 error Issuing the break port pass through command esc1 OCD on a port that had no pass through settings used to generate an E13 because the command could not be done again The same scenario now produces an E31 indicating that the command is valid but was not executed again because the port is already in that state Added Feature Port remapping limitations Users can now no longer set http and telnet ports to values less than 1024 to prevent conflicts with well known ports Exceptions are 23 for telnet and 80 for http Added Feature File extension support Files with bmp gif jpg jpeg png pdf cab ocx dll swf and fla extensions now have proper mime types in the http headers Files wit2. 453 4040 65 6383 4400
3. ATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes col Extron Electronics FIRMWARE RELEASE HISTORY Released Version 1 10 Affects Engineering Revision 16566 Firmware Revision 1 09 Date April 6 2006 The following is a list of changes and fixes in this release Fixed Issue TCP Retransmit Problem On TCP networks that experience a high number of data collisions IP Link Devices would not retransmit lost packets The result would be corrupt file warnings when GlobalViewer pages would attempt to load Fixed Issue DHCP at reboot During the reboot of an IP Link device in DHCP mode the device will now begin with a DHCPREQUEST Previous versions would retain their IP address but would start up with a DHCPDISCOVER causing some boxes to generate invalid requests Fixed Issue Name Changes is DHCP If the device name is changed on a box in DHCP mode it will now reinitialize itself with the DHCP server This allows proper name resolution in a timelier manner Added Feature Serial Bridging Serial Bridging allows two IP Link devices with serial ports to serve as a virtual connection between two serial devices Please see the IPL T S Series Manual 68 1218 01 for more information Added Feature Tagged responses to read only commands While in verbos
4. Firmware Release Notes mi Extron Electronics Current Firmware Revision 1 17 The following notes provide the revision history and a list of known firmware issues in the current release For more information please call your Extron Application Engineer Updated June 4 2013 Extron Products Affected IPLT Si IPL T SF24 IPL T S2 IPL T SFI244 IPL T S4 IPL CR48 IPL T S6 IPL 250 TECH NOTES Updating firmware IPL T firmware can be updated from the Extron software tools IP Link File Manager and Firmware Loader Both are available from the Extron website Additionally the firmware can be updated without additional software via the embedded web pages on the IPL T devices Please consult the User s Manual for more information on uploading via the embedded pages Retaining unit settings Because the memory used by IP Link products is non volatile flash memory it can often take some time to write to it Any changes to the unit s settings such as serial port settings setup parameters etc via RS 232 or IP communication may take as long as 1 minute 40 seconds 100 seconds to be saved to the product s flash memory Removing power to the unit before this time may result in a loss of these settings Page 1 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesbu
5. SA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes col Extron Electronics FIRMWARE RELEASE HISTORY Released Version 1 12 Affects Engineering Revision 17858 Firmware Revision 1 11 Date May 16 2007 The following is a list of changes and fixes in this release Fixed email sending Version 1 11 of the IPL firmware would not send emails when certain versions of the SM send mail SIS command were used This issue has been fixed Fixed email buffering In previous builds sending email when a Default Gateway IP address or email server address was not set would cause the unit to queue all connections causing an eventual lockup Fixed IR Ports after unit reset After a device with IR ports is reset via the lt ESC gt ZQQQ SIS command or the lt ESC gt ZXXX SIS command the IR ports in previous versions would come up in an invalid state Fixed Set Date and Time On the embedded web pages setting the device to the year 2000 would cause the year field to come up blank with no selection options Users can now set the date correctly even if the device is currently on the year 2000 Fixed default page refresh when disabling DHCP If via the embedded web pages a user disables DHCP and sets a static IP at the same time previous versions would not refresh the page properly Updated Daylight Savings Rules for 2007 For the year 2007 the Daylight Savings
6. Version 1 17 Affects Firmware Revision 1 16 Date Units shipped prior to June 3 2013 The following is a list of changes and fixes in this release Fixed Issue Relays close when power is applied When power is applied to the IPL 250 or IPL T CR48 the relays are closed instead of open as should be by default This issue has been resolved the relay ports will be open when power is applied Page 3 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes Sen Extron Electronics FIRMWARE RELEASE HISTORY Released Version 1 16 Affects Engineering Revision E26212 Firmware Revision 1 15 Date Units shipped prior to April 27 2013 The following is a list of changes and fixes in this release Fixed Issue TouchLink unexpected Disconnection In complex control system configurations with above average configuration payload and TouchLink usage the control processor may have unexpectedly disconnected the associated touchpanels Touchpanel behavior d
7. e mode all read only commands i e Q I N etc now have unique responses Added Feature SMTP authentication A device s email settings can now include a username and password This will allow the IP Link Device to send emails through an SMTP server that requires authentication All servers that can accept SMTP commands on port 25 are compatible Changed default baud rate of IRL to 115200 For the IPL T IRL only the default baud rate for the host configuration port is now 115200 instead of 9600 Page 9 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes oo Extron Electronics FIRMWARE RELEASE HISTORY Released Version 1 09 Affects Engineering Revision 159657 Firmware Revision 1 08 Date October 7 2005 The following is a list of changes and fixes in this release Fixed Issue ESC SIS command problem ESC SIS commands that happened to end on certain buffer boundaries would be ignored This problem has been corrected Fixed Issue
8. fter a period of time DHCP could stop working if other devices on the network were asking for an address from a server Fixed Issue Direct access allowed when serial ports were disabled When set to zero O disabled not all serial ports were disabled and still allowed access via TCP connection Fixed Issue IR playback Device drivers with sub functions were not operating correctly Page 12 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes Sen Extron Electronics FIRMWARE RELEASE HISTORY Released Version 1 06 Affects Engineering Revision 14637 Firmware Revision 1 04 Date October 2004 The following is a list of changes and fixes in this release Fixed Issue Clock not functioning properly e Enhanced Daylight Saving Time Now supports DST for US EU and Brazil e Fixed clock time calculation that would cause a minute transition to be missed e Check for valid year 00 99 in CT command via telnet Fixed Issue DHCP request
9. h htm html js xml and eml will be parsed for server side includes Added Feature ARP on reboot and IP change Upon reboot or change of IP address the IPLink unit will issue an ARP broadcast to update ARP tables in network Page 10 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes een Extron Electronics hardware The result is that replacing a box with one of the same IP address will no longer fail to connect across routers and switches FIRMWARE RELEASE HISTORY Continued Added Feature Part number included in the copyright message The part number is now included into the copyright message that appears when the user telnets to the unit Added support for 8Mb boards This version of firmware will support 8Mb boards including the newly updated part numbers Page 11 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London F
10. his release Fixed Issue Timing problem In rare cases drivers could cause a timing problem in the device that would cause drivers to quit running or run at odd intervals Scheduling and device emails could also become sporadic Fixed Issue Excessive open TCP ports When using direct access serial ports on the products sometimes a large number of TCP ports above 2001 would allow incoming connections While the open connections would not take SIS commands network port scanning software could see this as a cause for unnecessary alarm This issue has been resolved Fixed Issue Set IP Address in Device Settings dialog within GC2 In GC2 a user wishing to change the IP address Subnet Mask or Default Gateway in the Change Device Settings within GC2 would sometimes receive and error This issue has been resolved Added Feature GlobalViewer Enterprise support This version of firmware will add support for Global Viewer Enterprise Server Extron s new server based asset management tool Page 6 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside U
11. ng Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes Sen Extron Electronics Changed password read response Administrator CA and User CU read requests no longer return the password stored but return instead for security purposes Changed broadcast IP Link no longer broadcasts by default time set to 0 Enhanced verbose mode Added option 2 and 3 to allow fully qualified responses without and with verbose turned on respectively Increased URL message size Maximum URL length is now 500 bytes Updated default web pages e Enhanced File Management UI to support file directories e Allow user to add a directory delete a directory and navigate directory structure e Fixed bug on File Management page where numeric file names were not being sorted correctly Page 14 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33
12. ng Revision 19409 Firmware Revision 1 14 Date August 3 2009 The following is a list of changes and fixes in this release Added Feature TouchLink Communication Support This version of firmware will add support to allow IP Link devices to communicate with TouchLink touchpanels These touchpanels include the TLP 7OOMV and TLP 7OOTV Compatible firmware version for TouchLink Panels is 1 00 Added Feature Support for Ethernet Drivers This version of firmware is required to control AV devices via network protocols using Ethernet Drivers Added Feature Support for New Control Processor This version of firmware is the first to support the IP Link IPL 250 Control Processor Page 5 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes col Extron Electronics FIRMWARE RELEASE HISTORY Released Version 1 14 Affects Engineering Revision 18116 Firmware Revision 1 12 Date June 18 2008 The following is a list of changes and fixes in t
13. processing error If an IP Link unit requested a DHCP address it could mistakenly accept the return message from another requestor and cause duplicate IP addresses to appear on the network Fixed Issue Event processing error With a USER level password in the box programs such as GlobalViewer Web would not allow control of the configured devices Now allows USER CU level access to the following commands xE RS SF Fixed Issue RS command error Was not using the CE parameters when priority parameter was set Fixed Issue Lost RS 232 data Data would be lost if the RS 232 buffer filled up Added Feature File system structure New commands CJ and LF implemented to support sub directories and listing of files Added Feature Password validation Check for administrator password during an HTTP post request Enhanced port re mapping When a port is re mapped all connections are broken for the port that is changed Additional checking to see if ports overlap is implemented Affected commands MT MH and MD Changed error response If trying to set the IP address while DHCP is on command returns E14 previously E24 Page 13 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beiji
14. rankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes col Extron Electronics FIRMWARE RELEASE HISTORY Released Version 1 08 Affects Engineering Revision 15302 Firmware Revision 1 06 Date March 9 2005 The following is a list of changes and fixes in this release Fixed Issue Ethernet re transmit problem Under certain conditions when the product is accessed across a proxy server or VPN connection the product could enter a mode of constant re transmission of that data previously sent This caused excessive network traffic Fixed Issue SIS commands not functioning properly e Esc CF No longer allows hardware flow control for RS 422 and RS 485 e Esc CY Clears hardware flow control if set while changing to 422 or 485 e Esc RS Timeouts were not working correctly e Esc CZ Not storing GMT offsets with negative values e Q Responses from web requests incorrectly contained a CR LF terminator Fixed Issue Clock not functioning properly e Daylight saving time calculation has not corrected during a leap year e Esc CT incorrectly computed the date with September having 31 days Fixed Issue DHCP stops working A
15. rg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes Sen Extron Electronics KNOWN ISSUES The following is a list of known firmware issues found in the IPL T Series Version 1 17 Issue originated in v1 16 IPL T CR48 and IPL 250 relay 1 when pulsed remains closed In the event that a relay port 1 pulse action is initiated during the pulse duration of the remaining relay ports port 1 will not return to the original state A workaround for this issue can be provided by replacing the relay port 1 pulse commands with a combination of commands as follows Relay ON Wait lt duration gt Relay OFF Page 2 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes Sen Extron Electronics FIRMWARE RELEASE HISTORY Released
16. time rules changed so that time goes one hour forward on the second Sunday in March and goes back one hour on the first Sunday in November In the spring this occurs three weeks earlier than previous years In the fall this occurs one week later than previous years Updated Send Email command The SM SIS command can now take an email address as the first parameter This allows IP Link devices to send email using longer destination addresses Previous versions limited the email destination to 30 characters Page 7 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes col Extron Electronics FIRMWARE RELEASE HISTORY Released Version 1 11 Affects Engineering Revision 16566 Firmware Revision 1 10 Date February 27 2007 The following is a list of changes and fixes in this release Fixed Issue IR Ports after unit reset After a device with IR ports is reset via the lt ESC gt ZQQQ SIS command or the lt ESC gt ZXXX SIS command the IR ports in pre
17. uring the disconnection would appear non responsive The TLP 710 and 1000 series panels status LED may blink RED depending on how long the panel is in this state The issue has been resolved by optimizing system communication to prevent disconnecting touchpanels when the system is heavily loaded Fixed Issue Relay Pulse command allowing interruption If a secondary relay pulse command was triggered while another was still active the secondary command would execute and result in a toggled end state This issue has been resolved as relay pulse commands can no longer be interrupted with a consecutive pulse command Added Feature Virtual TLP and Panel Sync support Firmware version 1 16 is required when Enabling Virtual TouchLink and TouchLink Panel Synchronization within Global Configurator Version 3 5 Page 4 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED STATES EUROPE ASIA MIDDLE EAST 800 633 9876 800 3987 6673 800 7339 8766 971 4 2991800 Inside USA Canada Inside Europe Inside Asia 1 714 491 1500 31 33 453 4040 65 6383 4400 Firmware Release Notes col Extron Electronics FIRMWARE RELEASE HISTORY Released Version 1 15 Affects Engineeri
18. vious versions would come up in an invalid state Fixed Issue Email buffering In previous builds sending email when a Default Gateway IP address was not set would leave all outbound emails in the send buffer Setting the proper Gateway will now cause the emails to be sent Fixed Issue Set Date and Time On the embedded web pages setting the device to the year 2000 would cause the year field to come up blank with no selection options Users can now set the date correctly even if the device is currently on the year 2000 Updated Daylight Savings Rules for 2007 For the year 2007 the Daylight Savings time rules changed so that time goes one hour forward on the second Sunday in March and goes back one hour on the first Sunday in November In the spring this occurs three weeks earlier than previous years In the fall this occurs one week later than previous years Updated Send Email command The SM SIS command can now take an email address as the first parameter This allows IP Link devices to send email using longer destination addresses Previous versions limited the email destination to 30 characters Page 8 19 1364 50 Rev 1 17 Worldwide Sales Offices Anaheim Raleigh Silicon Valley Dallas e Chicago New York Washington DC Toronto Mexico City Paris e London Frankfurt Amersfoort e Moscow Dubai e Johannesburg New Delhi Bangalore Singapore Seoul Shanghai Beijing Tokyo UNITED ST
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