does companion9x need samba

[rperkins]

ok I left the hyphen out cause the search on the forum doesnt work with the hyphen unless you search on sam\-

anyway

is samba needed on companion9x ?

If my research is correct it is only used on the sky boards.
does companion9x support the skyboards ?
does anyone use it in that manner ?
can I package companion9x without samba and 99% will be happy ?

I downloaded the binary only packages from atmel for samba.
I has some tcl8.4 tclx8.4 tk8.4 dependencies I'd rather avoid.

I dont have the hardware to test it. I am willing to package this at a later time if there is interest

note they also have released a 'patch_5' for samba 2.12 . Not sure if that is required or what.

[Kilrah]

Yes OpenTX/companion support the sky9x board and currently need SAM-BA to read/write flash and eeprom on it.

This will change when the bootloader is added as standard. Neither SAM-BA nor dfu-util will be needed anymore except to allow people who still have an old FW version to upgrade it to the new one with bootloader.

[rperkins]

thanks for the reply
Sounds like that bootloader is a good idea. For existing users it will be a one more and done kind of thing.

I do think I am going to move forward without the sky9x support for the time being until I gauge the need or at least get the current things working. I did get dfu-util compiled and it seems pretty straightforward, although I cant test that either.

[jhsa]

This will change when the bootloader is added as standard. Neither SAM-BA nor dfu-util will be needed anymore except to allow people who still have an old FW version to upgrade it to the new one with bootloader.

Or people that mess their radio up so much that need a reset Then is SAM-BA Time