Multi-target offline flash support for Zedbox(and Zedbox mini) at production line

Hardware ZED Box
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Hello Stereolabs team,

I’m currently working on production setup using the Zedbox(and Zedbox mini) for our Robotics system.
For our production line, we plan to manufacture about 10 units a day so we need to flash the devices from host machines off the assembly line.

So far, I have confirmed that the provided SDK tool can flash a single target device from one host PC successfully (as guided in the document. takes quiet long time to flash SDK). For production efficiency, I’d like to flash 8-10 zedbox devices simultaneously from a single host machine(or at least few machines) and monitor the flashing progress of each target.

I’d like to know

  • Does Zedbox provide any tools, scripts, or configuration that support multi-target flashing?
  • If not directly supported, are there any recommended approaches or best practices for implementing this in a production environment?

Any guidance or reference documentation would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

cc. @bongsull

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Hi @pepsipower
The ZED Boox flashing script that you can download from our website is based on NVIDIA’s CLI commands available with each Jetson Linux package.
The flashing scripts documentation is available online; for example, here you can find the documentation for Jetson Linux v36.4.4:

As far as I know, it’s not possible to flash different devices in parallel from the same host machine.
I recommend that you analyze our scripts to thoroughly understand how they work and integrate this analysis with the information available in the NVIDIA documentation to find the flash process that best fulfills your requirements.

I also recommend you ask in the NVIDIA Developer Forum to get in direct contact with NVIDIA’s engineers and ask them for the best practices.