Checking out firmware version

This page will guide you through how to check your firmware (FW) version if you are having some issues, or you are trying to integrate your system with ours.

No matter what are the radio settings of your Stribog UAS and Doodle Labs radio, modules will not communicate if they do not have the same firmware version.

To log into radio (wearable or module in UAV), use command:

ssh root@<DOODLE_RADIO_IP>

Note: In Stribog UAS, if the filesystem was not manipulated, there should be an environment variable DOODLE_RADIO_IP holding the IP of UAV’s Doodle module IP.

Sometimes there is an issue in the host computer, where you need to add extra flags to ssh login, like so:

ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa root@<DOODLE_RADIO_IP>

You can also check if there is an Airvolute banner when you’re logged into the Doodle module. It is displayed in terminal automatically after logging and looks like this:

 █████╗ ██╗██████╗ ██╗   ██╗ ██████╗ ██╗     ██╗   ██╗████████╗███████╗
██╔══██╗██║██╔══██╗██║   ██║██╔═══██╗██║     ██║   ██║╚══██╔══╝██╔════╝
███████║██║██████╔╝██║   ██║██║   ██║██║     ██║   ██║   ██║   █████╗  
██╔══██║██║██╔══██╗╚██╗ ██╔╝██║   ██║██║     ██║   ██║   ██║   ██╔══╝  
██║  ██║██║██║  ██║ ╚████╔╝ ╚██████╔╝███████╗╚██████╔╝   ██║   ███████╗
╚═╝  ╚═╝╚═╝╚═╝  ╚═╝  ╚═══╝   ╚═════╝ ╚══════╝ ╚═════╝    ╚═╝   ╚══════╝

Once you are ssh-ed into the radio, you can get information by:

cat /etc/os-release 

The output should look like this:

NAME="Doodle Labs"
VERSION="firmware-2024-06.2"
ID="doodle_labs"
ID_LIKE="lede openwrt"
PRETTY_NAME="Doodle Labs firmware-2024-06.2"
VERSION_ID="firmware-2024-06.2"
HOME_URL="https://openwrt.org/"
BUG_URL="https://bugs.openwrt.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forum.openwrt.org/"
BUILD_ID="r11306-c4a6851c72"
OPENWRT_BOARD="ar71xx/generic"
OPENWRT_ARCH="mips_24kc"
OPENWRT_TAINTS="no-all busybox"
OPENWRT_DEVICE_MANUFACTURER="Doodle Labs"
OPENWRT_DEVICE_MANUFACTURER_URL="https://www.doodlelabs.com/"
OPENWRT_DEVICE_PRODUCT="SmartRadio"
OPENWRT_DEVICE_REVISION="v0"
OPENWRT_RELEASE="Doodle Labs firmware-2024-06.2 r11306-c4a6851c72"

OPENWRT_RELEASE is the value you’re interested in.