Anomaly encountered when loading identical Profiles, into two different ALP systems.

[LI2624]

Thanks BRD - that was it

[awj223]

The default if you do not have the Skip First Warm-up option enabled is a 60 second warm-up period before it goes into defense mode.

I hope that AL website is updated so that we can load in an old CONFIG.ALP file and it will set all of the parameters to their old values, and any new parameters can either be set to a default value or flagged so that the user can choose, then can successfully generate a new file. When I tried this in the past, it could load in an old file, but once it had done so, if the file was NOT in the same format (was of a previous revision), it wouldn't successfully generate a new file. This is especially important now that we have 3 profiles per file. With so many parameters to set, it's extremely easy to overlook something and the only way I can ensure that everything is set properly is to open two browser tabs and click back and forth to make sure everything is exactly the same. As you can imagine, doing this 3 times for 3 profiles leaves a lot of room to screw something up.

[BestRadarDetectors]

All you need to do is set one profile with all your options and copy that to the other profiles with the copy button on the top right of the page and then just make your additional customizations to the additional profiles.

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[radargeek]

I hope that AL website is updated so that we can load in an old CONFIG.ALP file and it will set all of the parameters to their old values, and any new parameters can either be set to a default value or flagged so that the user can choose, then can successfully generate a new file. When I tried this in the past, it could load in an old file, but once it had done so, if the file was NOT in the same format (was of a previous revision), it wouldn't successfully generate a new file. This is especially important now that we have 3 profiles per file. With so many parameters to set, it's extremely easy to overlook something and the only way I can ensure that everything is set properly is to open two browser tabs and click back and forth to make sure everything is exactly the same. As you can imagine, doing this 3 times for 3 profiles leaves a lot of room to screw something up.

I've been able to load old setup.alp files to the website and they loaded successfully. By default they get loaded to profile A, but you can then copy it to B and/or C from the website, tweak them to your liking and then download a new config.alp file.

If you're not using profiles, you can just upload a setup.alp and then download a new config.alp, easy as pie!

Of course, if you upload a config.alp with profiles to the website, all the profiles will be loaded on the page so you can edit them and create a new file.

[awj223]

All you need to do is set one profile with all your options and copy that to the other profiles with the copy button on the top right of the page and then just make your additional customizations to the additional profiles.

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Hmm...somehow I missed that Options button.

I've been able to load old setup.alp files to the website and they loaded successfully. By default they get loaded to profile A, but you can then copy it to B and/or C from the website, tweak them to your liking and then download a new config.alp file.

If you're not using profiles, you can just upload a setup.alp and then download a new config.alp, easy as pie!

Of course, if you upload a config.alp with profiles to the website, all the profiles will be loaded on the page so you can edit them and create a new file.

Yes, I've done this in the past. Loaded successfully. However, when I then tried to generate a new file after having loaded an old one of a previous (not current) format, it would not generate a new file properly.

[BestRadarDetectors]

Hmm...somehow I missed that Options button.

Yes, I've done this in the past. Loaded successfully. However, when I then tried to generate a new file after having loaded an old one of a previous (not current) format, it would not generate a new file properly.

Depends if features are changed. If there are new features and options you will need to create a new file.

[awj223]

Depends if features are changed. If there are new features and options you will need to create a new file.

That's the problem. I should be able to load an old file and have it use all of the old configurations, and either set the new ones to default values or mark them as "must choose" before generating, similar to "make oldconfig" when building the Linux kernel. If, every time a feature was added to the kernel, people had to recreate the entire .config file from scratch, they'd go crazy.

[modsl55amg]

Insert the config file let it load and then turn it off and back on and you will be fine.

BRD: I again attempted to update my Car 2's ALP system, using the exact same USB flash drive with the three Profiles. I turned the system off, inserted the flash drive, turned the system on, there were two blue lights but NO voice stating something like "download successful" or whatever the voice usually says, then turned the system off, then withdrew the flash drive from the USB port, then turned the system back on. The Profile selections that were correct yesterday were still correct today. The Profile selections that were not correct yesterday, per the selections I had on the flash drive, were still not correct today. This is the same flash drive and Profile selections that were successfully installed in Car 1 yesterday. Nothing has been added to, or deleted from, the flash drive. I am going to save the flash drive, with the three Profiles on it, in case it is ever needed for further investigation in the future.

I then turned the system on, inserted the flash drive, there were two blue lights but NO voice, I withdrew the flash drive. I checked the Profile selections. The selections that were not correct yesterday are still not correct today. I then turned the system off, waited a couple of minutes, then turned the system on. The Profile selections that were correct yesterday are still correct today. The Profile selections that were not correct yesterday are still not correct today.

I will now use another properly formated USB flash drive, which I have used in the past to successfully load files into the ALP systems, and generate Profiles A, B, and C, selection by selection, that are exact duplicates of the three Profiles I successfully loaded into Car 1's ALP system yesterday. (I have hard copy printouts of the three Profiles A/B/C, on which I have checked each selection from the ALP website's specific Profile A/B/C selections, and placed a check mark on each selection on each of the Profile A/B/C hard copy printouts) I will then load the new Profiles into Car 2's ALP system, and see if they then are exact duplicates of the Profiles I successfully loaded into Car 1's ALP system yesterday.

I will advise of the results after attempting the download to Car 2.

[radargeek]

That last attempt seems like either the ALP didn't find the config.alp file on the flash drive (make sure your browser didn't rename it something like config(1).alp). The other possibility is the ALP thinks the config.alp on the drive is the same as the one currently loaded. Did you re-create the config or is this the same config that loaded incorrectly prior?

[BestRadarDetectors]

That last attempt seems like either the ALP didn't find the config.alp file on the flash drive (make sure your browser didn't rename it something like config(1).alp). The other possibility is the ALP thinks the config.alp on the drive is the same as the one currently loaded. Did you re-create the config or is this the same config that loaded incorrectly prior?

Also make sure you did in fact update the firmware on both units to 5.2.1, Config files do not load on older firmware.