working on a mac to flash new firmware (1.2.0) on to AudioMoths. Things were going well at first (i.e. was able to successfully update firmware on 3 sensors). But now getting an error code "Killed: 9" using same procedure.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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Hello, Wondering whether anyone has any experience using Audiomoths in very hot climates, please? I am planning on using Audiomoths in north east Brazil where the temperature will easily get to 40-45 deg C and we've experienced trail cams not coping well. I'm planning on placing the devices in shades but can anyone recommend anything else? Many thanks in advance! Nat :-)
That's very unusual. It's the operating system complaining about the binary file. Have you tried restarting, and if that doesn't work, downloading the flash application again.
What version of macOS are you using?
Hi Team,
Experiencing this exact issue (MacBook Pro running Sierra Version 10.12.6). Have not been able to update firmware at all - I get to step 3 in the "Flashing the firmware" instructions (i.e. "Run the flash executable... etc" and I get "Killed: 9" as the only response. Have tried re-starting and re-downloading the flash application without success. Any help appreciated!
(On a separate but possibly related note - I have downloaded the flash application a total of 4 times. The first three times it downloaded as "flash" (no extension); the fourth time it downloaded as "flash.dms" - not sure why this is different (and it didn't resolve the "Killed: 9"issue) but seems odd)
Cheers,
Marty
Just to clarify in light of Alex's post above: I'm not even getting to the binary file step in the procedure - i.e. the "Killed: 9"crops up at the "./flash" command. I don't get a list of ports or anything else.
Marty and I are getting the same error, at same step. I downloaded flash again, restarted ...then later ran OS Update (now running 10.14.3) just in case. Again, odd thing is this worked a week ago, no major changes to OS since then that I know of. My system was complaining that the hard-drive was almost full, but I fixed that.
That’s very strange. It suggests that maybe the driver has got corrupted but I can’t see how that can really happen. Very strange that it used to work and replacing the software doesn’t fix it. One quick thing to try would be to generate a new user account and try a fresh download to there in case there is some strange history of USB devices. I’ve never encountered a Killed: 9 error before.
Hi. Thanks. Created a new user account, and tried fresh. Got the same error. Very odd, I agree.
@matthew.mckown What model of Mac is it?
@Alex Rogers MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015); Processor =
3.1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM
@Alex Rogers I'm running MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017), otherwise same specs as Matthew
That’s what I’m using so that doesn’t help too much. Can you email me at the email on the main page and I’ll send you a link to a new binary.
@Alex Rogers Will do.
Thanks Alex.