CN113944991A - Air conditioner and firmware upgrading method - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses an air conditioner and a firmware upgrading method, which are applied to the air conditioner comprising a refrigerant circulation loop, a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a four-way valve, an indoor environment temperature sensor, an indoor coil temperature sensor and a controller.
Description
Technical Field
The application relates to the technical field of air conditioner firmware, in particular to an air conditioner and a firmware upgrading method.
Background
With the development of air conditioners and the increasingly wide application of the internet of things technology, the functions of the air conditioners are more and more diversified, the system firmware, the stored data, the accessory firmware and the like of the air conditioners are more and more complex, and the situation of upgrading the firmware and the data due to the change of user requirements, the function upgrading of the air conditioners, the fault repair and the like is increasingly common.
At present, one technical scheme for upgrading the firmware in the air conditioner is to replace a brand-new control panel or component, and the other technical scheme is to use a computer to be connected with the control panel on the air conditioner through a data line to directly perform firmware or data programming upgrading, but the existing technical scheme needs to disassemble and assemble the air conditioner for the second time, easily causes damage to the air conditioner and low efficiency, and also can damage decoration to a central air conditioner integrated with the decoration and cause loss to users.
Therefore, how to accurately upgrade the firmware in the air conditioner without disassembling and assembling the air conditioner, so as to improve the efficiency of upgrading the firmware of the air conditioner and the user experience, has become a technical problem to be solved by those skilled in the art.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides an air conditioner and a firmware upgrading method, which are used for solving the technical problem of accurately upgrading the firmware in the air conditioner under the condition of not dismounting the air conditioner.
Some embodiments of the present invention provide an air conditioner, including:
the refrigerant circulation loop circulates the refrigerant in a loop formed by the compressor, the condenser, the expansion valve, the evaporator, the four-way valve and the pressure reducer;
the compressor is used for compressing low-temperature and low-pressure refrigerant gas into high-temperature and high-pressure refrigerant gas and discharging the high-temperature and high-pressure refrigerant gas to the condenser;
one of the outdoor heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger works for the condenser, and the other works for the evaporator;
the four-way valve is used for controlling the flow direction of the refrigerant in the refrigerant loop so as to switch the outdoor heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger between the condenser and the evaporator;
an indoor environment temperature sensor for detecting an indoor environment temperature;
the indoor coil temperature sensor is used for detecting the temperature of the indoor coil;
the controller is used for receiving an upgrading instruction sent by the control terminal, the upgrading instruction carries firmware to be pushed, and the firmware to be pushed is acquired by the control terminal from a server according to the equipment identifier of the air conditioner;
and upgrading the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed according to the upgrading instruction.
Some embodiments of the present invention provide an air conditioner, wherein the controller is further configured to:
and returning a first version number corresponding to the current firmware to the control terminal according to the query request of the control terminal, so that the control terminal determines an upgrading result according to a second version number corresponding to the firmware to be pushed and the first version number.
In the air conditioner provided in some embodiments of the present invention, the current firmware includes indoor unit main control firmware, indoor unit EEPROM data, outdoor unit main control firmware, outdoor unit EEPROM data, outdoor unit drive firmware, and outdoor unit drive EEPROM data.
Accordingly, some embodiments of the present invention provide a firmware upgrading method for an air conditioner, which is applied to an air conditioner including a refrigerant circulation circuit, a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a four-way valve, an indoor ambient temperature sensor, an indoor coil temperature sensor, and a controller, and the method includes:
receiving an upgrading instruction sent by a control terminal, wherein the upgrading instruction carries a firmware to be pushed, and the firmware to be pushed is acquired by the control terminal from a server according to an equipment mark of the air conditioner;
and upgrading the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed according to the upgrading instruction.
In a firmware upgrading method of an air conditioner according to some embodiments of the present invention, the method further includes:
and returning a first version number corresponding to the current firmware to the control terminal according to the query request of the control terminal, so that the control terminal determines an upgrading result according to a second version number corresponding to the firmware to be pushed and the first version number.
Some embodiments of the present invention further provide a firmware upgrading method for an air conditioner, which is applied to an air conditioner including a refrigerant circulation circuit, a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a four-way valve, an indoor ambient temperature sensor, an indoor coil temperature sensor, and a controller, and the method includes:
acquiring available upgrading firmware from a server according to the equipment identifier of the air conditioner;
determining a firmware to be pushed from the available firmware to be pushed according to a selection instruction input by a user, and sending an upgrading instruction carrying the firmware to be pushed to the controller, so that the controller upgrades the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed according to the upgrading instruction.
In a firmware upgrading method of an air conditioner according to some embodiments of the present invention, before obtaining available upgraded firmware from a server according to a device identifier of the air conditioner, the method further includes:
and acquiring the equipment identification according to the scanning instruction input by the user, or receiving the equipment identification input by the user.
In the firmware upgrading method of an air conditioner according to some embodiments of the present invention, after sending an upgrade instruction carrying the firmware to be pushed to the controller, the method further includes:
sending a query request to the controller;
receiving a first version number corresponding to the current firmware sent by the controller according to the query request;
judging whether a second version number corresponding to the firmware to be pushed is consistent with the first version number;
if yes, determining that the upgrade is successful;
if not, determining that the upgrading fails.
In some embodiments of the present invention, in a firmware upgrading method for an air conditioner, the current firmware includes indoor unit main control firmware, indoor unit EEPROM data, outdoor unit main control firmware, outdoor unit EEPROM data, outdoor unit driving firmware, and outdoor unit driving EEPROM data,
compared with the prior art, the invention has the following technical effects:
by applying the technical scheme, the method comprises the steps of receiving available upgrading firmware acquired from a server according to the equipment identification of the air conditioner, determining the firmware to be pushed from the available upgrading firmware according to a selection instruction input by a user, and sending the upgrading instruction carrying the firmware to be pushed to the controller, so that the controller can upgrade the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed according to the upgrading instruction, the firmware of the air conditioner can be accurately upgraded without carrying out secondary disassembly and assembly on the air conditioner, and the upgrading efficiency of the firmware of the air conditioner and the user experience are improved.
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Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing an external appearance of an air conditioner of an embodiment;
fig. 2 is a circuit diagram showing an outline of the structure of the air conditioner of the embodiment;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing the construction of an air conditioner in the preferred embodiment of the present application;
fig. 4 is a flowchart of a firmware upgrading method for an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a firmware upgrade method for an air conditioner according to another embodiment of the present application;
fig. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating a firmware composition of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 7 is a flowchart of a firmware upgrading method for an air conditioner according to another embodiment of the present disclosure.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.
In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience in describing the present application and simplifying the description, but do not indicate or imply that the referred device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be operated, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present application.
The terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present application, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified.
In the description of the present application, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood in a specific case by those of ordinary skill in the art.
As described in the background art, in the prior art, the air conditioner needs to be disassembled and assembled for the second time in the scheme of upgrading the firmware in the air conditioner, which is easy to cause damage to the air conditioner, and a special computer and a data line are also needed to be equipped, so that the firmware to be upgraded is easy to be confused.
In order to solve the above problems, a preferred embodiment of the present invention provides an air conditioner, as shown in fig. 3, for accurately upgrading a firmware in the air conditioner without performing secondary disassembly and assembly of the air conditioner.
The application protects an air conditioner specifically does:
the refrigerant circulation circuit 301 circulates a refrigerant in a circuit including a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, an evaporator, a four-way valve, and a pressure reducer.
The air conditioner performs a refrigeration cycle of the air conditioner by using a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator. The refrigeration cycle includes a series of processes involving compression, condensation, expansion, and evaporation, and supplies refrigerant to the air that has been conditioned and heat-exchanged.
The compressor 302 is configured to compress a low-temperature and low-pressure refrigerant gas into a high-temperature and high-pressure refrigerant gas, and discharge the high-temperature and high-pressure refrigerant gas to the condenser.
In a preferred embodiment of the present application, the compressor compresses a refrigerant gas in a high temperature and high pressure state and discharges the compressed refrigerant gas. The discharged refrigerant gas flows into the condenser. The condenser condenses the compressed refrigerant into a liquid phase, and heat is released to the surrounding environment through the condensation process.
The expansion valve expands the liquid-phase refrigerant in a high-temperature and high-pressure state condensed in the condenser into a low-pressure liquid-phase refrigerant. The evaporator evaporates the refrigerant expanded in the expansion valve and returns the refrigerant gas in a low-temperature and low-pressure state to the compressor. The evaporator can achieve a cooling effect by heat-exchanging with a material to be cooled using latent heat of evaporation of a refrigerant. The air conditioner can adjust the temperature of the indoor space throughout the cycle.
An outdoor heat exchanger and an indoor heat exchanger 303, one of which operates for the condenser and the other of which operates for the evaporator.
The outdoor unit of the air conditioner refers to a portion of a refrigeration cycle including a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger, the indoor unit of the air conditioner includes an indoor heat exchanger, and an expansion valve may be provided in the indoor unit or the outdoor unit.
The indoor heat exchanger and the outdoor heat exchanger serve as a condenser or an evaporator. When the indoor heat exchanger is used as a condenser, the air conditioner is used as a heater in a heating mode, and when the indoor heat exchanger is used as an evaporator, the air conditioner is used as a cooler in a cooling mode.
A four-way valve 304 for controlling a flow direction of a refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit to switch between the outdoor heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger as the condenser and the evaporator;
the air conditioner 1 shown in fig. 1 includes: the indoor unit 3 is exemplified by an indoor unit (shown in the figure), and the indoor unit is usually mounted on an indoor wall surface WL or the like. For another example, an indoor cabinet (not shown) is also an indoor unit of the indoor unit.
The outdoor unit 2 is generally installed outdoors and used for heat exchange in an indoor environment. In the illustration of fig. 1, the outdoor unit 2 is indicated by a broken line because the outdoor unit 2 is located outdoors on the opposite side of the indoor unit 3 with respect to the wall surface WL.
Fig. 2 shows a circuit configuration of an air conditioner 1, and the air conditioner 1 includes a refrigerant circuit 10, and is capable of executing a vapor compression refrigeration cycle by circulating a refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit 10. The indoor unit 3 and the outdoor unit 2 are connected by a connecting pipe 4 to form a refrigerant circuit 10 in which a refrigerant circulates.
And an indoor ambient temperature sensor 305 for detecting and collecting the indoor ambient temperature.
And an indoor coil temperature sensor 306 for detecting and collecting the indoor coil temperature.
The controller 307 is configured to receive an upgrade instruction sent by the control terminal, where the upgrade instruction carries a firmware to be pushed, and the firmware to be pushed is obtained by the control terminal from a server according to the device identifier of the air conditioner;
and upgrading the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed according to the upgrading instruction.
Specifically, the controller receives an upgrade instruction sent by the control terminal, the upgrade instruction carries firmware to be pushed, the firmware to be pushed is acquired by the control terminal from the server according to the equipment identifier of the air conditioner, and in addition, the firmware to be pushed and the current firmware in the air conditioner correspond to each other.
In order to determine the upgrade result of the air conditioner, in a preferred embodiment of the present application, a first version number corresponding to the current firmware is returned to the control terminal according to the query request of the control terminal, so that the control terminal determines the upgrade result according to a second version number corresponding to the firmware to be pushed and the first version number.
Specifically, the controller returns a first version number corresponding to the current firmware in the air conditioner to the control terminal after receiving the query request of the control terminal, so that the control terminal determines an upgrade result according to the first version number and a second version number corresponding to the firmware to be pushed, if the first version number is consistent with the second version number, the upgrade is successful, and if the first version number is inconsistent with the second version number, the upgrade is unsuccessful.
In order to update the firmware more accurately, in a preferred embodiment of the present application, the current firmware includes an indoor unit main control firmware, an indoor unit EEPROM data, an outdoor unit main control firmware, an outdoor unit EEPROM data, an outdoor unit driving firmware, and an outdoor unit driving EEPROM data.
Specifically, the current firmware in the air conditioner refers to the firmware in the air conditioner in the current state, and is not only one, and a plurality of different firmware in the air conditioner needs to be updated by corresponding firmware to be pushed, and the current firmware includes indoor unit main control firmware, indoor unit EEPROM data, outdoor unit main control firmware, outdoor unit EEPROM data, outdoor unit drive firmware, and outdoor unit drive EEPROM data, as shown in fig. 6.
The pushing of the firmware to be pushed to the air conditioner can be flexibly set by a person skilled in the art according to actual conditions, and the protection scope of the application is not affected.
It should be further noted that the controller and the control terminal may be connected through wifi, bluetooth or usb data transmission lines, and any one of the requirements may be met to implement upgrading of the current firmware, as shown in fig. 6.
By applying the technical scheme, the upgrading instruction sent by the control terminal is received, the upgrading instruction carries the firmware to be pushed, the firmware to be pushed is acquired by the control terminal from the server according to the equipment identifier of the air conditioner, the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed is upgraded according to the upgrading instruction, and the current firmware in the air conditioner is accurately upgraded under the condition that the air conditioner is not disassembled and assembled for the second time.
Corresponding to the air conditioner in the preferred embodiment of the present application, a firmware upgrading method is further provided in the specific embodiment of the present application, and is applied to an air conditioner including a refrigerant circulation loop, a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a four-way valve, an indoor ambient temperature sensor, an indoor coil temperature sensor, and a controller, as shown in fig. 4, the method includes:
step S401, receiving an upgrading instruction sent by a control terminal, wherein the upgrading instruction carries a firmware to be pushed, and the firmware to be pushed is acquired by the control terminal from a server according to an equipment mark of the air conditioner;
specifically, the controller receives an upgrade instruction sent from the control terminal, where the upgrade instruction carries firmware to be pushed, and the firmware to be pushed is obtained by the control terminal from the server according to the device identifier of the air conditioner, where the device identifier of the air conditioner may be a two-dimensional code or a barcode on the air conditioner or another device identifier containing information of the current firmware of the air conditioner.
And S402, upgrading the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed according to the upgrading instruction.
Specifically, the current firmware in the corresponding air conditioner is upgraded according to the upgrading instruction and the firmware to be pushed in the upgrading instruction.
In order to determine the upgrade condition of the firmware more accurately, in a specific embodiment of the present application, a first version number corresponding to the current firmware is returned to the control terminal according to the query request of the control terminal, so that the control terminal determines an upgrade result according to a second version number corresponding to the firmware to be pushed and the first version number.
Specifically, after upgrading operation is performed on the current firmware in the air conditioner according to the upgrading instruction, the first version number corresponding to the upgraded current firmware is sent to the control terminal, so that the control terminal determines the upgrading success or failure result according to the first version number and the second version number of the firmware to be pushed.
By applying the technical scheme, the upgrading instruction sent by the control terminal is received, the upgrading instruction carries the firmware to be pushed, the firmware to be pushed is acquired by the control terminal from the server according to the equipment identifier of the air conditioner, the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed is upgraded according to the upgrading instruction, and the current firmware in the air conditioner is accurately upgraded under the condition that the air conditioner is not disassembled and assembled for the second time.
Meanwhile, another embodiment of the present application further provides a firmware upgrading method for an air conditioner, which is applied to an air conditioner including a refrigerant circulation circuit, a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a four-way valve, an indoor environment temperature sensor, an indoor coil temperature sensor, and a controller, as shown in fig. 5, the method includes:
and S501, acquiring available upgrading firmware from a server according to the equipment identifier of the air conditioner.
Specifically, because the air conditioner has a plurality of models and a plurality of corresponding firmware versions, an equipment identifier needs to be set on the air conditioner, and the equipment identifier includes model information and current firmware information of the air conditioner.
In order to more conveniently acquire the firmware information corresponding to the air conditioner, in another embodiment of the present application, before acquiring the available upgraded firmware from the server according to the device identifier of the air conditioner, the method further includes:
and acquiring the equipment identification according to the scanning instruction input by the user, or receiving the equipment identification input by the user.
Specifically, the device identifier on the air conditioner may be a two-dimensional code or a bar code, the control terminal scans the two-dimensional code or the bar code on the air conditioner to obtain the device identifier after receiving a scanning instruction input by a user, or the control terminal may be a user mobile phone or a remote controller of the air conditioner, where the user directly inputs a machine model or a production code.
It should be noted that, the scheme for acquiring the identifier of the air conditioner device in the above embodiment is only a specific implementation manner in the embodiment of the present application, and other manners for acquiring the identifier of the air conditioner device all belong to the protection scope of the present application.
Step S502, determining a firmware to be pushed from the available upgrading firmware according to a selection instruction input by a user, and sending an upgrading instruction carrying the firmware to be pushed to the controller, so that the controller upgrades the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed according to the upgrading instruction.
Specifically, the available upgrade firmware of the air conditioner is obtained from the server, specifically, which firmware is upgraded or which version of the firmware is upgraded can be selected by a user, or can be defaulted as the latest version of the upgrade, the firmware to be pushed is determined according to a selection instruction of the user, the firmware to be pushed is downloaded to a control terminal, and then the upgrade instruction carrying the firmware to be pushed is sent to the controller in the air conditioner, so that the controller upgrades the current firmware of the air conditioner according to the upgrade instruction.
In order to determine the current firmware of the air conditioner more accurately, in another embodiment of the present application, the current firmware includes an indoor unit main control firmware, an indoor unit EEPROM data, an outdoor unit main control firmware, an outdoor unit EEPROM data, an outdoor unit driving firmware, and an outdoor unit driving EEPROM data.
The firmware that the air conditioner can be upgraded can be flexibly set by a person skilled in the art according to actual conditions, and the protection scope of the application is not affected.
In order to determine whether the current firmware is successfully upgraded more accurately, in another embodiment of the present application, after sending an upgrade instruction carrying the firmware to be pushed to the controller, the method further includes:
sending a query request to the controller;
receiving a first version number corresponding to the current firmware sent by the controller according to the query request;
judging whether a second version number corresponding to the firmware to be pushed is consistent with the first version number;
if yes, determining that the upgrade is successful;
if not, determining that the upgrade fails
Specifically, the control terminal sends a query request to the controller after a preset time, queries whether the current firmware is successfully upgraded, receives a first version number corresponding to the current firmware in the current state of the air conditioner sent by the controller according to the query request, compares the first version number with a second version number corresponding to the firmware to be pushed, judges that the upgrade is successful if the first version number is consistent with the second version number, and fails if the first version number is inconsistent with the second version number.
By applying the technical scheme, the available upgrading firmware is obtained from the server according to the equipment identification of the air conditioner, the firmware to be pushed is determined from the available upgrading firmware according to the selection instruction input by the user, and the upgrading instruction carrying the firmware to be pushed is sent to the controller, so that the controller upgrades the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed according to the upgrading instruction, the current firmware of the air conditioner is upgraded under the condition that the air conditioner is not disassembled and assembled for the second time, meanwhile, a special computer and a data line are not required to be equipped, the firmware of the air conditioner is not required to be replaced, and the upgrading version of the current firmware is not easy to be confused.
In addition, another embodiment of the present application further provides a firmware upgrading method for an air conditioner, which is applied to an air conditioner including a refrigerant circulation circuit, a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a four-way valve, an indoor ambient temperature sensor, an indoor coil temperature sensor, and a controller, as shown in fig. 7, the method includes:
step S701, the special app for the mobile phone scans bar codes or manually inputs the model number and the production code of the mobile phone.
Specifically, in this step, the mobile phone specific app is equivalent to the control terminal, and the control terminal is not limited to the mobile phone app.
And step S702, analyzing the bar code content by the app to obtain the model number.
Step S703, the app sends the model number to the server, and searches for the updatable firmware.
Step S704, the updatable firmware classification is listed in the app display page.
Step S705, selecting the firmware to be updated, and downloading the firmware to the mobile phone.
And step S706, connecting the mobile phone with the air conditioner.
Step S707 selects a firmware update command in the app.
In step S708, the app receives the update result sent by the air conditioner and displays the current firmware version and status.
By applying the technical scheme, the firmware of the air conditioner can be accurately upgraded under the condition that the air conditioner is not disassembled and assembled for the second time, and the efficiency of upgrading the firmware of the air conditioner and the user experience are improved.
Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the present application can be implemented by hardware, and also by software plus a necessary general hardware platform. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be embodied in the form of a software product, which may be stored in a non-volatile storage medium (which may be a CD-ROM, a usb disk, a removable hard disk, etc.), and includes several instructions for enabling a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to execute the method according to the implementation scenarios of the present application.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the figures are merely schematic representations of one preferred implementation scenario and that the blocks or flow diagrams in the figures are not necessarily required to practice the present application.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the modules in the devices in the implementation scenario may be distributed in the devices in the implementation scenario according to the description of the implementation scenario, or may be located in one or more devices different from the present implementation scenario with corresponding changes. The modules of the implementation scenario may be combined into one module, or may be further split into a plurality of sub-modules.
The above application serial numbers are for description purposes only and do not represent the superiority or inferiority of the implementation scenarios.
The above disclosure is only a few specific implementation scenarios of the present application, but the present application is not limited thereto, and any variations that can be made by those skilled in the art are intended to fall within the scope of the present application.
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1. An air conditioner, characterized in that the air conditioner comprises:
the refrigerant circulation loop circulates the refrigerant in a loop formed by the compressor, the condenser, the expansion valve, the evaporator, the four-way valve and the pressure reducer;
the compressor is used for compressing low-temperature and low-pressure refrigerant gas into high-temperature and high-pressure refrigerant gas and discharging the high-temperature and high-pressure refrigerant gas to the condenser;
one of the outdoor heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger works for the condenser, and the other works for the evaporator;
the four-way valve is used for controlling the flow direction of the refrigerant in the refrigerant loop so as to switch the outdoor heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger between the condenser and the evaporator;
an indoor environment temperature sensor for detecting an indoor environment temperature;
the indoor coil temperature sensor is used for detecting the temperature of the indoor coil;
the controller is used for receiving an upgrading instruction sent by the control terminal, the upgrading instruction carries firmware to be pushed, and the firmware to be pushed is acquired by the control terminal from a server according to the equipment identifier of the air conditioner;
and upgrading the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed according to the upgrading instruction.
2. The air conditioner of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:
and returning a first version number corresponding to the current firmware to the control terminal according to the query request of the control terminal, so that the control terminal determines an upgrading result according to a second version number corresponding to the firmware to be pushed and the first version number.
3. The air conditioner of claim 1, wherein the current firmware comprises indoor unit main control firmware, indoor unit EEPROM data, outdoor unit main control firmware, outdoor unit EEPROM data, outdoor unit drive firmware, and outdoor unit drive EEPROM data.
4. A firmware upgrading method of an air conditioner is applied to the air conditioner comprising a refrigerant circulation loop, a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a four-way valve, an indoor environment temperature sensor, an indoor coil temperature sensor and a controller, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:
receiving an upgrading instruction sent by a control terminal, wherein the upgrading instruction carries a firmware to be pushed, and the firmware to be pushed is acquired by the control terminal from a server according to an equipment mark of the air conditioner;
and upgrading the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed according to the upgrading instruction.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the method further comprises:
and returning a first version number corresponding to the current firmware to the control terminal according to the query request of the control terminal, so that the control terminal determines an upgrading result according to a second version number corresponding to the firmware to be pushed and the first version number.
6. A firmware upgrading method of an air conditioner is applied to the air conditioner comprising a refrigerant circulation loop, a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a four-way valve, an indoor environment temperature sensor, an indoor coil temperature sensor and a controller, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:
acquiring available upgrading firmware from a server according to the equipment identifier of the air conditioner;
determining a firmware to be pushed from the available firmware to be pushed according to a selection instruction input by a user, and sending an upgrading instruction carrying the firmware to be pushed to the controller, so that the controller upgrades the current firmware corresponding to the firmware to be pushed according to the upgrading instruction.
7. The method of claim 6, prior to obtaining available upgraded firmware from a server based on the device identification of the air conditioner, further comprising:
and acquiring the equipment identification according to the scanning instruction input by the user, or receiving the equipment identification input by the user.
8. The method of claim 6, after sending the upgrade instruction carrying the firmware to be pushed to the controller, further comprising:
sending a query request to the controller;
receiving a first version number corresponding to the current firmware sent by the controller according to the query request;
judging whether a second version number corresponding to the firmware to be pushed is consistent with the first version number;
if yes, determining that the upgrade is successful;
if not, determining that the upgrading fails.
9. The method of claim 6, wherein the current firmware comprises indoor unit master control firmware, indoor unit EEPROM data, outdoor unit master control firmware, outdoor unit EEPROM data, outdoor unit drive firmware, and outdoor unit drive EEPROM data.
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