harmony 525 / 555 bricked if firmware updated using concordance

[Florian Hiemeyer]

'lsb_release -rd'
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.1
package:
concordance 0.23-1.2

For harmony 525 / 555 users, if you apply "concordance -i" it shows a negative(!) memory on the device (detailled report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594615).
If you update the firmware using that concordance package, you brick your harmony!

Despite this being reported as a bug for debian, and a patch already given in the above email discussion in November 2010 (see message from Mr. Trudel, subject: Testing a patch to fix the 525), all versions do not apply this patch:
This is clear, as the latest code in source forge is 28 August 2010, meaning all newer versions (at least the 0.22 and 0.23 versions I tried) have the error inside.

Resulting from this, also the 0.23-1.2 version is wrong.
I unbricked my harmony be leaving it on and plugged in the usb port, installing 0.22 source code, editing the header file in "libconcord" as described by Mr. Trudel, compiling & installing it manually.

Due to the risk of bricking your harmony device, I propose to clarify this (very small, it's only one number wrong in source code!)
rather fast ...

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Yep, we're getting concordance from Debian and still are at a revision prior to the patch being re-introduced.

I'll mark this In Progress/High, and start preparing an SRU fix (applying the patch to the current version in Oneiric)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Florian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted concordance into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Florian Hiemeyer (flohiemeyer)]

Have connected my Harmony 555 today, with new libconcord2 lib and the ubuntu concordance package.

Result:
florian@ocelot:/usr/bin$ concordance -i
Concordance 0.23
Copyright 2007 Kevin Timmerman and Phil Dibowitz
This software is distributed under the GPLv3.

Requesting Identity: 100% done
  Model: Logitech Harmony 555 (Mocha Grande)
  Firmware Version: 3.0
  Hardware Version: 3.0
  Config Flash Used: 32% (127 of 384 KiB)

Success!

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Did not update, but it seems very trustful now!

[Florian Hiemeyer (flohiemeyer)]

Thank you very much for responding so quickly!!
!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package concordance - 0.23-1.2ubuntu1

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concordance (0.23-1.2ubuntu1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/h525-flash-size-detection.patch: fix flash size detection
    for Harmony 525 and 555. (LP: #880275)
 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:29:06 -0400

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I saw too late that this wasn't fixed in precise yet. Mathieu, please upload ASAP. Thanks!

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

In Precise we have concordance 0.23-2, which is where this patch is from; so I'll close this as Fix Released for precise as well.