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Title: FREESPEAK BELTPACK FIRMWERE
Post by: augie propersi on September 25, 2019, 04:32:27 PM
I just got some new FS 1.9 packs, they have ver 2.29.32.0 on them,
I only see ver 2.27.32 on Clearcoms web site. has anyone seem this? what's been updated/fixed ???
Title: Re: FREESPEAK BELTPACK FIRMWERE
Post by: David Sturzenbecher on September 25, 2019, 10:22:26 PM
I just got some new FS 1.9 packs, they have ver 2.29.32.0 on them,
I only see ver 2.27.32 on Clearcoms web site. has anyone seem this? what's been updated/fixed ???

I received packs last month with that firmware. No idea what was fixed though. Some ended up getting rolled back to 2.27.32 when I was trying to bring much older packs up to date. I really wish their firmware update method was a little more...informative.
Title: Re: FREESPEAK BELTPACK FIRMWERE
Post by: Pete Erskine on September 26, 2019, 12:16:48 PM
I just got some new FS 1.9 packs, they have ver 2.29.32.0 on them,
I only see ver 2.27.32 on Clearcoms web site. has anyone seem this? what's been updated/fixed ???

2.29.32 is on their site.  Improvements in multipath audio filtering.
Title: Re: FREESPEAK BELTPACK FIRMWERE
Post by: David Sturzenbecher on September 26, 2019, 12:53:09 PM
2.29.32 is on their site.  Improvements in multipath audio filtering.

More Improvements?  Those were listed as improvements in the older firmware.
Title: Re: FREESPEAK BELTPACK FIRMWERE
Post by: Jason Glass on September 26, 2019, 02:44:46 PM
More Improvements?  Those were listed as improvements in the older firmware.

You can never stop trying to improve performance issues related to multipath interference if your goal is perfectly reproduced audio at all times.  It's a monumentally difficult problem to mitigate.
Title: Re: FREESPEAK BELTPACK FIRMWERE
Post by: David Sturzenbecher on September 26, 2019, 03:20:36 PM
You can never stop trying to improve performance issues related to multipath interference if your goal is perfectly reproduced audio at all times.  It's a monumentally difficult problem to mitigate.

Yes, I get that.  I have yet to see release notes that actually indicate more improvements were made in that area for 2.29.32.

The latest firmware I find on the website is 2.25.50.
Title: Re: FREESPEAK BELTPACK FIRMWERE
Post by: Henry Cohen on September 26, 2019, 03:32:29 PM
You can never stop trying to improve performance issues related to multipath interference if your goal is perfectly reproduced audio at all times.  It's a monumentally difficult problem to mitigate.

To expand on this, it's not just issues related to multipath. It's incremental improvements across the board; performance, function and features. The difference is now with SDR's, and any microprocessor or ASIC based hardware, the OEM can push updates and fixes as fast they can identify and solve a problem, and then code and test the solution. Previously there were incremental hardware mods or upgrades that took longer to resolve and resulted in multiple generations/versions of what was essentially the same model device.