Update Firmware

Introduction

eDRV provides you an easy way to update chargestation firmware, you can use the APIs or a user friendly UI via the admin dashboard to perform firmware updates for your chargestations.

Firmware file URLs

The following firmware source file URLs are supported:

Acceptable Formats:

• ftp://username:[email protected]/firmwareFileName.xyz
• ftps://username:[email protected]/firmwareFileName.xyz

Example: ftp://jamesdean:*****@ftp.drive.com/ANSYS.zip

Using the API to update firmware

Use Update Firmware API with a valid ftp/ftps url to update your charge station firmware, you can also refer to the following sample code for the request.

const request = require('request');

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://api.edrv.io/v1.1/chargestations/5fb24edb6434561ds6f3198d/update_firmware',
  headers: {
    Accept: 'application/json',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    Authorization: 'Bearer eDRV_TOKEN'
  },
  body: {
  "location": "ftp://jamesdean:[email protected]/firmwareFileName.gz",
  "retrieveDate": "2022-02-09T09:59:28.364Z"
 },
  json: true
};

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
  /*Save session Id within your appication*/
  const session_id = body.result._id;
  
});

Here a sample response:

{
  "ok": true,
  "result": {
    "command": {
      "owner_type": "user",
      "deleted": false,
      "_id": "6203908015058f4834b514fd",
      "owner": "615ec8c82cf705033a667b81",
      "organization": "5e7e6c058a6deccfefdf4223",
      "type": "UpdateFirmware",
      "status": "CSAccepted",
      "chargestation": "5fb24edb6434561ds6f3198d",
      "data": {
        "location": "ftp://jamesdean:[email protected]/firmwareFileName.gz",
        "retrieveDate": "2022-02-09T09:59:28.364Z"
      },
      "createdAt": "2022-02-09T09:59:28.984Z",
      "updatedAt": "2022-02-09T09:59:29.219Z",
      "__v": 0
    }
  },
  "message": "Created"
}

Updating Firmware via the Admin Dashboard

You can now update firmware directly from the admin dashboard. This feature is available via the charge stations page. On the chargestation list tab, expand Remote Commands to find the Update Firmware option available for an individual charge station.

Tracking Firmware Update in Progress

Please see the Logs page for FirmwareStatusNotification messages from the chargestation. The chargestation will notify eDRV of the following states:

• Downloaded: File successfully downloaded by the chargestation
• DownloadFailed: File download failed. Please try again
• Downloading
• InstallationFailed: Firmware installation failed
• Installing: Firmware installation in progress
• Installed: Firmware installation succeeded

Check installed Firmware

The chargestation analytics tab presents a list of active firmware on your network. See the Charge stations page.