Raspberry Pi Part 8: First Download and Update! (Firmware)

Key Takeaways

what is up everybody welcome to another Raspberry Pi tutorial in this tutorial we're gonna be doing one last thing before we get into just some basic terminal commands and what we're gonna be doing is talking about how to update your firmware and the reason you want to update your firmware is they actually well first of all they update the firmware in like all the time just like every few days pretty much and also when they update the firmware you get all kinds of new things and if you've ever like hacked around with any sort of product over the years you've probably learned that sometimes you actually might want to revert back to an older firmware version etc so it's always good to to know how to how to do that and actually the process to do that is really simple with the Raspberry Pi so anyway with that we'll go ahead and just hop right on into that the first thing you'll want to do is open up your terminal and you should notice that your terminal opens quite a bit faster than it has before if you are indeed overclock so congratulations on not having to wait so much with your pod and really my PI is not too hot I mean it's hotter than it was initially but it's not too bad I wonder if they're eventually I should look up you know like your computers have a program called real temp and it's really useful for monitoring your temperatures so I wonder if there's something similar for the PI that we could put on there if not real temp anyways it's anything on the first thing that we want to do is we need to make sure our firmware is up to date now my firmware since my PI is a relatively new PI I'm gonna venture to guess my firmware is indeed up to date but yours might not be so suppose that I will attempt to help you guys out so the first thing that you want to do is pull a download our PI update because that's what will help you download your your firmware so to get that we're going to do sudo apt - get so that's gonna install stuff probably like the most awesome thing in the world it comes to using like Linux is when you just you need to download and install something it's like one line in your in your terminal and it does everything it's so much easier did like download and install programs anyway what we want to get is RPI update so hit enter and I guess we'll wait for to build some trees awesome and as you can see RPI update is already the newest version so we've got that now to get the latest version of the firmware what you want to do is go to it is the github for RPI firmware I think what I'll just do is just put the link in the description this time and what you want to do is you want to look at the commits and you want to take the shock code or the hash code basically for the latest version in my case the latest version was three days ago so I'll go ahead and actually try to grab that and let me see here if I can just copy and paste it in for anybody who is watching this right with me now go over into our leafpad open that up and let me see if I can copy and paste right into it no I wasn't able to but you'll just have to take my word for it and I'll leave it up on screen when we're done so the next thing that we want to do is we want to actually update to this newest firmware since it was so recently I bet I don't have the most recent firmware it looks like just by looking at this page like they're updating the firmware like every three to seven days anyway continuing on let me drive let's alright so what we want to do to put the or to update we're gonna do sudo and then RPI and our sudo our IP sudo RPI - update there's no space that I don't think because you're specifying like what it is is you're dating your nevermind but anyway it's it's like a jool basically so now what we want to update to is gonna be the following I'll just try to type it out slowly but also I'll pause the videos so you guys could just like copy and paste so it is going to be 9 5 6 0 8 B 0 0 7 fe 5 a 5 a a a B 5 B C 1 3 0 3 5 c c e 9 4 c f9 c 0 e 6 5 b ok hopefully we didn't type of this because that's really a pain in the focus performing the update and we wait and we we do this awesome and you like download all these updates and they install and like guy you can't do this on windows anyway check out this awesome loading bar thing like pretty epic like the guy that coded this is probably just so proud of himself you know how woody was so proud of myself you know and when you are finally done you will be here now again if you're watching this video later than like 7 days since I posted it then chances are there's a newer firmware and again I really try my hardest to remember to put this link in the description I forget to put the links in the description all the time so yeah so that's pretty much it with the installation of first of all the RPI update but then also updating or you could use the exact same process to downgrade your raspberry PI's firmware as always thank you for watching thank you for your support your subscriptions and until next time