ECU module programming guide using FDRS

[speedracercjr]

@speedracercjr @RickBullotta

Current weather works but not radar?

Nope, I get a "Current weather not available" with a slash through a storm cloud when looking at current weather.

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[Jesse-Infotainment]

Nope, I get a "Current weather not available" with a slash through a storm cloud when looking at current weather.

Ok. Your gateway config must have been affected in the update.

Let me look at your as build in the gateway

 

[speedracercjr]

Ok. Your gateway config must have been affected in the update.

Let me look at your as build in the gateway

I don't have the latest GWM, maybe that fixes it?

 

[JEB]

Dangit why would they break that. I actually make use of that map when I'm traveling through weather.

Mine’s back up. I think it was a just a temporary interruption in the data transmission.

 

[Jesse-Infotainment]

I don't have the latest GWM, maybe that fixes it?

Not the update itself. But running the config may. Weather has worked throughout.

You must have a config issue. SO runa config or update the Gateway and it will after the update

 

[speedracercjr]

Not the update itself. But running the config may. Weather has worked throughout.

You must have a config issue. SO runa config or update the Gateway and it will after the update

Can I run the config through Forscan or do I need to re-up another FDRS?

 

[RickBullotta]

@speedracercjr @RickBullotta

Current weather works but not radar?

Yup.

 

[JEB]

Can I run the config through Forscan or do I need to re-up another FDRS?

Before heroics, give it a few ignition cycles and a good cellular connection. Mine came back without any extraordinary measures except a few iginition cycles and a better position to a cell tower.

 

[Jesse-Infotainment]

Yup.

No idea if the current weather works and radar doesnt. If they both didnt work then I would know what to do

 

[Jesse-Infotainment]

Can I run the config through Forscan or do I need to re-up another FDRS?

Go to

https://www.motorcraftservice.com/AsBuilt


Download your as build

Go to the gateway

load all

Select the file that was downloaded

Write all

Should be good after that

 

[RickBullotta]

No idea if the current weather works and radar doesnt. If they both didnt work then I would know what to do

Restarted again and now radar is functioning properly. Must have been a glitch in the matrix.

 

[speedracercjr]

Before heroics, give it a few ignition cycles and a good cellular connection. Mine came back without any extraordinary measures except a few iginition cycles and a better position to a cell tower.

10-4, need to run some errands so I'll keep an eye on it.

 

[speedracercjr]

Well that was weird, but weather and radar is working again!

 

[JEB]

Well that was weird, but weather and radar is working again!

Not surprised. If there was something wrong with the truck, you’ll generally see other symptoms—the cloud icon with a slash through it on the map display; weather and/or traffic tiles grayed out in the nav menu. Since you saw neither of those warning signs, the truck was likely fine—the pipeline was open—and there was something hinky with receiving the transmission. The truck is a big cell phone and can have the same stupid connection issues any other cell phone can have. And it’s on the AT&T network. . . .

 

[Snakebitten]

It's also more granular than you might think.
3 icons reveal that it's more than just a "Telematic Control Module", or a modem, or cellular connection....

You can have a Green/Good TCU and have a red #2 #3

You can have a Green/Good TCU and #3, but have a momentary red #2 (signal strength drops below some threshold, is what #2 appears to be about)

And I don't even know exactly what ECG designates, to be honest.

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