Well, apparently, it’ll upgrade the firmware with the web thing, if you use Chrome in Windows.
Apparently some people had luck opening new tabs to upgrade the older firmware.
And possibly with the one I wanted.
Well, if I knew I’d have to use Windows, not sure I would have bought any of them.
Had to use a VM, and forgot the Bluetooth on the PCIe card uses USB most likely for the Bluetooth part. Well, good thing that worked, cause the other one Windows won’t install the driver for automatically. What a shitty ass OS.
Guess I needed to read their entire issues on GitHub to find all the reasons not to buy it.
I’m updating using the RetroScaler firmware, not the official firmware. Cause apparently, people have issues with the official firmware on this clone crap.
Just waiting for it to finish now. 100%, but might take a while, or not finish at all.
Almost 3 AM. Good way to stay up early.
Might not bother doing anything else if this works. Doesn’t work, might just go to bed as well.
It just disconnects really quickly in Chrome in Linux, and Chromium. And Vivaldi doesn’t work at all, that was the Flatpak as well as the official Chrome. Too lazy to install crap I don’t want, some other way. Chromium might be anyways.
Maybe I should go pee, and just go to bed. Maybe it’ll be done when I wake up. Or not. No idea how long it’s been either.
Where are the BlueRetro things with USB? Cause this is a real pain in the ass. Oh yeah, might be on eBay. Well, should have bought that clearly. Then I wouldn’t need Windows.
Hmm, there’s one on eBay, I didn’t notice before. Says open box, the four port one, and has USB C. But who made it? If it’s homemade, then it can likely use official firmware without issues.
Oh China and open box.
I usually filter to US only. So no wonder I didn’t see it.
Well, might not be sold in the US, at least on eBay.
And I need to remember not to reset the damn thing, if so, I might be using a VM again. Also, if it resets itself, well I will be to.
Got the firmware updated sometime after I woke up. You may or may not need Windows.
But you do need a working firmware. The official firmware, the hw1 one works.
Might have worked when trying it again after waking up, from Linux, if I used that firmware. No idea how far it got until it disconnected. Was eating.
You can probably use Chrome or Edge in Windows.
But they should really say, you need Windows basically to update the firmware. All browser bluetooth shit in Linux might be experimental. And they might as well say you need Edge as well. When I tried with Edge, I didn’t even need to enable any experimental flags.
Don’t know if I can update the firmware from Linux or not. Or even if I needed to.
But I can change settings in Linux using Chrome.
Not sure it works good enough to update the firmware though.
The best one to get, is one with USB. Not sure any US seller has it though.