Parrot Ck3100 Software Update
Different versions of the Parrot CK3100 software may work slightly differently, and some will have problems connecting to newer phones, in which case the firmware must be updated to 5.00C or later. At JustCarKits we can update the firmware for you. Please refer to the following link: it is also possible to reprogram CK3100 directly via. Different software versions of Parrot CK3100 may operate slightly differently and some will have issues with connecting to the newer phones, in which case you should update the firmware to 5.00C or later. At JustCarKits we can update the firmware for you. Please see the following link. Software update. Parrot systemen zijn te updaten d.m.v. Indien je een laptop hebt met Bluetooth kun je deze koppelen met je parrot. Op deze wijze kun je nieuwe software in je parrot laden waardoor je nieuwe telefoon ook gaat werken. Let op: na het updaten van de software zijn alle contacten in de parrot gewist.
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 I quickly realised I needed to update the firmware on it as it was quite out of date and the latest 5.25c update from the parrot site fixes issues with Android phones.
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 upgradeunlockgeneral 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.
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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). 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!
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. 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. The 5v on pin 8 was not enough to power the TTL circuit, I am not sure what it is for. Anyway to cut a long story short here is the pinout below.
I would be very interested to hear from someone with an official upgrade cable to tell me if that pinout matches theirs. All I know is, this one works…
Previous cables I have made required a 5V Vcc input from the device to power the MAX232/233. Pin 8 on this device didn’t provide enough power for this, but the new TTL Converter I bought took its 5v power supply from a spare USB port. I used the spare Vcc cable to connect pins 9 & 10.
The update process is fairly simple. Connect the TTL device to the blue control box but leave the device unpowered. Load up the Parrot software and wait for it to say XPRAM downloading… Then connect the power and watch it go… I had lots of failed attempts and a few heart stopping moments when I thought I bricked it after it got stuck after wiping the flash. Thankfully it’s pretty resilient and it still lets you update it in this scenario after restarting the process.
Update: If you own the CK3000, CK3100, CK3300 or CK3500 please see: Parrot CK3100 CK3300 CK3500 DIY Flash Upgrade Programming Cable – TTL Pinout
Ondřej Linhart contacted me after reading my post on creating an upgrade cable for the Parrot CK3000. He has a CK3100 and suspected that it would be possible to create a similar cable for the CK3100 as I had done for the CK3000. This is because the official cable advertised says it works on the Parrot CK3000, CK3000 Evolution, CK3100, CK3300 and CK3500. Below is the combined cable. The small connector on the left is for the CK3000 Evolution, the large connector in the middle is for the CK3100. I don’t know about the rest of the Parrot devices as I do not own them.
We had a little discussion over email and a few weeks later I am glad to say he has cracked it and figured out the wiring.
The CK3100 has a different type of connector and different pinouts from the CK3000, but you can still use a USB-TTL device to program it. Ondřej bought this USB-TTL adapter, but pretty much any should do, you can find them on eBay too.
Ondřej also sent me the following images to post here showing the pinout for the CK3100 and also a picture of him using the USB-TTL device
Here is Ondřej using the USB to TTL adapter in his car with a laptop.
Parrot Ck3100 Software Update Download
Thanks Ondřej for sharing the pinout. If anyone else finds out any pinouts for other Parrot devices please let me know.