[Asterisk-Users] Pushing new firmware to Snom 190

Tue Jul 12 14:18:25 MST 2005

On Tuesday 12 Jul 2005 19:02, Patrick Friedel wrote:
> Bob Goddard wrote:
> >There are 2 problems here, the first is if you click on "memory" and
> >the connection count is not 0, then you will be unable to reboot the
> >phone, all you can do then is power cycle it.
> >
> >Secondly, to update the phone, you have to create 2 files, the first
> >is entered into the "Setting URL:" and should at a minimum consist
> >of something like:
> >
> ><html>
> ><pre>
> >firmware_status: http://81.187.187.52/snom190/snom190-firmware.htm
> ></pre>
> ></html>
> >
> >You then have to create a second file with reference to the above:
> >
> ><HTML>
> ><pre>
> >firmware: http://www.snom.com/download/share/snom190-3.60i-SIP-j.bin
> ></pre>
> ></HTML>
> >
> >It is a pathetically stupid way of doing things, but it is the Snom way.
>
> And you may need to set firmware_interval (that might be a 360 only
> option), which is scaled in (minutes? seconds? Seconds with a minimum of
> 60?  Whatever it is, it's _incredibly_ sticky.).  I guess for me the
> next question is whether there is a more user-friendly way of forcing
> the updates?  I've got the chain set up, it rebooted and found the new
> firmware nicely enough, but the only change it did was indicate on the
> phone that there was a new firmware available on the status line - it
> didn't actually load the new firmware until the EU asked for it.  No
> biggie in my SOHO (3 whole phones!), but in a huge rollout I could see
> that being really annoying.

I consider the whole ethos of Snom phones to be fucked up beyond all repair.
Until they provide a way to reboot these phones through the web interface
regardless of what connections are still in place, then I consider them
little more than junk. The only sure way to update these phones is to
update them via a factory reset/tftp upgrade then block the phones from
making any web connection out of the network at the firewall, and that
requires physical access.