2.1 By serial cable. Upgrade procedure for the Parrot CK3100, CK3300, CK3500. There are three methods to upgrade your Parrot CK3100: one by serial cable. Parrot Bluetooth Car Kits. Home / Parrot Spare Parts / Parrot CK3100 Spare Parts. RS232 Serial update cable for Parrot CK3000 / CK3000 Evo / CK3100 /.
I recently purchased the CK3000 Evolution car bluetooth hands free kit off eBay for £26, much cheaper than the retail £80. I quickly realised I needed to update the firmware on it as it was quite out of date and the latest 5.25c update from the parrot site fixes issues with Android phones. CK3000 Evolution Upgrade Cable on Ebay Searching online I could not find the upgrade cable for less than £29. That’s more than I paid for the actual device! Having made my own upgrade unlock general hacking cables for devices before I was pretty much certain the upgrade cable would just be a glorified RS232 – TTL converter which I have made in past for free from spare parts. This turned out to be the case. RS232 To TTL Converter Module on eBay Making the cables is a bit laborious and I had previously spotted on ebay that you can buy a standard RS232 – TTL converter cable at a silly price.
This was the perfect opportunity to give it a go. I bought the cheapest RS232 – TTL Converter on ebay from Hong Kong which only cost £1.79 ($2.91). Woolf A Sketch Of The Past Pdf Viewer.
I could barely post something to another person in the UK for that price, never mind buy the parts! The downside, unfortunately I had to wait 24 days for it to arrive argh! ATX 4 Pin Molex As I didn’t know the pinout this was definitely something to be done from the comfort of my own home rather than in the car, so I knew I’d need a 12v power supply. The CK3000 takes its power from a 4 pin square molex connector, exactly the same shape as an ATX motherboard power supply. Ibp 115 2 Crack Fully Working 3ds. I had a PC power supply which had died a few months ago so I cut this off and attached it to a 12V DC 3A power supply (the writing on the blue CK3000 control unit says it only requires 300mA so this was more than enough).
Just had a thought I didn’t check the wiring before I cut it off the PC power supply as I intended to wire it up manually, therefore I don’t know if the parrot and PC PSU 4 pin molex pinout is the same. Make sure you check this if you intend to power it from a PC PSU directly. With a multimeter it was quickly worked out that pins 2,4,6 are GND; 3,7,10 +12V; 8 +5V. This only left 1,5 & 9 to be either Tx or Rx.