OWL Modular not usable after Firmware update

[andrepalubitzki]

I'm having an OWL-Modular since 2016. The last firmware which I successfully had installed was v14.

Now I was surprised and happy to see a new Firmware version v22.4.0 for it. I've installed it and after a reboot it's telling me "Error: Error 0x60 Invalid bootloader" in the Firmware tool (Chrome website) and I get a flashing red LED in OWL.

However the status is telling me "Connected to OWL Modular v22.2.0". After a power cycle the OWL is flashing red/yellow.

(One thing which irritates me is that the Midi Connection for OWL is named OWL-PEDAL.) This happened for the firmware version from page v22.4.0 and the one from page v22.4.rc1 and the one from page v22.2.0.

What can I do?

[antisvin]

I think that error message is returned if you try to flash firmware when the firmware is running. You can only flash bootloader from firmware or firmware from bootloader.

You have 2 options for flashing firmware:

1. keep the old DFU bootloader and use webdfu or dfu-util to flash, in such case you need .bin firmware image
2. flash the new MIDI bootloader and then use .syx firmware image after switching to bootloader mode

[andrepalubitzki]

Thx for your answer. But I don't understand the need for flashing the MIDI bootloader first to use .syx firmware. In the past I updated several times and I always was using the .syx files.

[andrepalubitzki]

I now managed it. I had to reflash the Midi-Boot-Loader.