How to get your UE9 CloudDot-ready

Windows

1. Install the UD Driver.
2. Download and extract LJSelfUpgrade (version 1.24 or higher).
3. Go to the UE9 CloudDot Firmware page.
4. Download the Control firmware version 2.14 (or higher) and Comm firmware version 1.50 from 5/3/2010 (or higher).
5. Run LJSelfUpgrade with the UE9 connected. Click the “Browse” button to select the Control then click “Program”. Repeat for the Comm firmware.
6. Connect UE9 to the Internet by setting its IP address in LJControlPanel and power cycle.
7. With the CloudDot firmware and a proper IP address, the UE9 will automatically connect to CloudDot.

Mac OS X/Linux

1. Install the Exodriver.

2. Check your Python version:

$ python -V
Python 2.6.4

3. If you have Python 2.5, make sure you have simplejson:

$ python -c 'import simplejson; print "simplejson Installed"'
simplejson Installed

-- Or, if simplejson is not installed --

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
ImportError: No module named simplejson

4. Check that you have httplib2

$ python -c 'import httplib2; print "httplib2 Installed"'
httplib2 Installed

-- Or, if httplib2 is not installed --

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
ImportError: No module named httplib2

5. Download and unzip the Python firmware upgrader for your version of Python:

# Get link from Firmware page
$ curl -O http://labjack.com/...path to.../python-firmware-upgrader-2.6.zip 
$ unzip python-firmware-upgrader-2.6.zip
$ cd python-firmware-upgrader-2.6

6. Connect your UE9 to your computer over USB.
7. Upgrade the Control firmware to version 2.14 and the Comm firmware to version to 1.50.

$ python selfUpgrader.py -c 2.14 -m 1.50 9

8. Connect UE9 to the Internet and power cycle.
9. With the CloudDot firmware and a proper IP address, the UE9 will automatically connect to CloudDot.