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Updating the software on your Siesta Home

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You will need a freshly formatted FAT32 USB stick to perform a software upgrade on you Siesta Home
You will need a decompression tool like WinZip installed on your computer.
The software which is found on the downloads website.

Preparing the file and your USB stick
 
When you download the file to your computer it will arrive as a compressed file (.ZIP) that will need decompressing. Use a decompression tool like WinZip to decompress (or ‘unpack’) the file, and save the file to a location on your computer that you will esily find. There is only a single file in the zip to save.
Make sure your USB stick is freshly formatted with no data stored on it.
Now copy or move the unpacked file to your freshly formatted USB stick. The file should be the only file present on the USB stick.

Installing the software on your Siesta Home

1.Insert the USB stick loaded with the software into the USB socket nearest to the headphone socket
2.Change the source to CD – You should see a CD icon
3.Eject any discs you may have in the Siesta Home
4.Press and hold the CD stop button, when the CD icon disappears release the key
5.The display will show USB Updating’ then display ‘F00  T000’
6.Now press and hold the CD stop button
7.You will now see Wait-Updating – this will last for approximately 28 seconds
8. The Siesta home will now reboot and enter standby

Your update is now complete!

Please Note - do not power down your Siesta Home mid update.

Your Siesta Home should now be on version P56
To check this please press this button combination
[ Menu ] [ < ] [ Select ] [ < ] [ <] [ Select ]
The version will now display on the screen