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Flash Firmware

This section covers a few methods to flash firmware onto your Kiwi.


Web interface / LuCI

LuCi currently is not reachable in the current FW version, keep in mind that the device is still in development stages

Connect to your Kiwi web interface and navigate to (System → Backup / Flash Firmware),
then select your firmware image and press Flash image, on the next page click Proceed to begin flashing.


Sysupgrade

Connect into Kiwi and download the binary image to RAM under /tmp, use this method IF you already have an OpenWrt FW installed on the device and you just want to update it.
(Alter your username, IP and path to match your binary image location)

scp tester@192.168.1.254:/home/tester/openwrt-qualcommbe-ipq95xx-8devices_kiwi-dvk-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin /tmp


Perform upgrade procedure with configuration reset:

sysupgrade -n /tmp/openwrt-qualcommbe-ipq95xx-8devices_kiwi-dvk-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin


Perform upgrade procedure without configuration reset:

sysupgrade -c /tmp/openwrt-qualcommbe-ipq95xx-8devices_kiwi-dvk-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin