Hardware License Upgrades

The Time Tagger Ultra and Time Tagger X have a hardware license that can be upgraded to activate additional channels and features. To upgrade your license, please get in touch with sales@swabianinstruments.com. After purchasing a license upgrade, the new license becomes available within a few minutes. You can install your new license using one of the graphical user interfaces or via the Time Tagger API (e.g. using the provided Python example). An active internet connection is needed once for the upgrade process.

Time Tagger Lab

  1. Connect the Time Tagger to your PC.

  2. Start Time Tagger Lab.

  3. If a new license is available, you will see the following:

  4. Click on “Update the license”. The new license will be applied immediately and you will see:

Note

It is currently not possible to update the hardware licenses of Time Taggers that are connected to a Synchronizer using Time Tagger Lab. To perform a license update, power off the Synchronizer first by unplugging its power supply. Then, the Time Taggers will be listed one-by-one and their licenses can be upgraded as described in the following section.

Python

A dedicated Python example hardware_license_update.py is included with the Time Tagger installation and can be used to apply a hardware license upgrade. With the Time Tagger connected, the script checks the license server for an updated hardware license and, if one is available, shows the current vs. updated license information and can flash the updated license onto the device. For flashing, the example releases the Time Tagger connection before calling flashLicense(). On Linux, the examples are installed in /usr/share/timetagger/examples/python/.

Web Application

Note

The Web Application is not supported any more for releases after 2.20. For newer versions, update the hardware license using the Python example described in the previous section.

  1. Connect the Time Tagger to your PC.

  2. Start the Time Tagger WebApplication.

  3. Click on “Add Time Tagger” in the top left corner.

  4. You should see your connected Time Tagger and at the bottom the button “Check for License Upgrade” (the serial number should be different)

  5. Click on “Check for License Upgrade”.

  6. If a new license is available, you will see the following:

  7. If you want to activate the new license, please click “Flash Device” and wait until the process is complete. You will see the following message: