Legacy Flashing Methods

This page provides step-by-step instructions for legacy flashing methods for your Car Thing. It is recommended to use the steps in the section Flashing Your Car Thing. Only proceed with these flashing methods neccessary. Ensure you have completed the steps outlined in Setting Up before proceeding.

Flashing Tools

Flash your car thing has a different process for Windows then for Mac and Linux. For the easiest flashing process, use a Windows device

Windows

Bundled Installer Tool

Complete the following steps to flash the Car Thing.

1.) Navigate to thingify and download “windows-bundled-version.number.here.zip”.

2.) Extract the windows-bundled.zip into an accessible location and navigate to the extracted directory.

3.) Within the directory, double click the “flash.bat” file.

Note

Make sure you can view file name extensions enabled with the Windows File Explorer.

4.) Wait for the flashing process to complete. If the installation fails with an error message stating “device not found”, power cycle the device, enter back into USB burn mode, and try again.

Note

You may notice that the data and setting file fail. These files are unnecessary and will not impact the flashing process.

Caution

A known issue has been identified regarding compatibility with the flashing tool and AMD 5000 series CPUs. AMD has been notified and possibly working on a fix. If you run into this issue, try updating your BIOS or try the flashing process a few times.

5.) After the flashing process completes, power cycle the car thing.

Mac

SuperBird Tool for Mac

1.) Execute the following command to ensure the device can be found.

python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/pyusb/pyusb
python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/superna9999/pyamlboot
python3 superbird_tool.py --find_device

2.) Execute the following command to enter USB Burn Mode.

python superbird_tool.py --burn_mode

3.) Execute the following command to flash the device.

sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine DeskThing.app
chmod +x /Applications/DeskThing.app/Contents/Resources/mac/adb
deskthing-0..--setup

Additonal Steps Coming Soon!

Linux

SuperBird Tool for Linux

1.) Execute the following command to ensure the device can be found.

sudo python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/superna9999/pyamlboot
sudo ./superbird_tool.py --find_device

2.) Execute the following command to enter USB Burn Mode.

python superbird_tool.py --burn_mode

3.) Execute the following command to flash the device.

deskthing-0..--setup