Great news for our French Rovio users -- our latest Rovio Software Installer v.2.3 (freshly uploaded) has a few bug fixes and now is also available in French! 

Let us know what you think! 

New and improved Rovio Recorder v.1.1 for you to try out in case you haven't already.

Let us know what you think!

Rovio users:

Here the first Rovio Headlight video. Feel free to give feedback!

Here's a Rovio tip:

For those of you wondering how to view the complete list of firmware changes, you can always view the text file by entering the address of your Rovio, and then adding /updates.txt to the end of the URL.

For example:

http://michellec.myrovio.net/updates.txt

Hey Rovio-owners,

Here's a new firmware (v.5.02b4) for you to try out:

http://www.robocommunity.com/download/16425/Rovio-Firmware-v.5.02b4-Beta/

There's a few updates to it, as I've listed here, including some improvements to VLC support.

Feel free to leave feedback!

-Michelle

Hi all,

Just a little heads up to tell you that we've uploaded a new API for Rovio (v.1.3), which includes the following updates:

New functions documented:

• GetUPnP.cgi
• SetUPnP.cgi
• SendHttp.cgi

Updated functions:

• SetWlan.cgi/GetWlan.cgi
• SetIP.cgi/GetIP.cgi

Happy coding!

Hi everyone,

Great news for Rovio users on Windows Vista -- I've posted Vist-compatible Rovio Firmware Updater v.2.1 and an update to the Rovio Software Installer (v.2.1) which resolves issues with Vista installations.

Feel free to leave feedback for these Rovio apps!

Good news -- there's a new Mac version of the Rovio Software available for download now. Have a go at it and let us know what you think.

Oh, one little thing though -- we're working on getting new versions of the Rovio Software to include firmware updating as well, but this Beta version of the software for Mac doesn't have that feature yet...

Stay tuned!

Great news: after all your help and feedback, we are able to release the latest stable versions of the Rovio firmware (5.00) and Rovio Software (for PC) (1.8.8.3).

Some of the major changes for the Rovio 5.00 firmware (from v.3.97) include:

• New WPA and WPA2 support (NOTE: does not support WPA2 Enterprise encryption)
• New UPnP support
• Enhanced stability
• Added online status indicator
• Faster loading

Some of the major changes for the Rovio Software for PC include:

• Enhanced stability
• Text updates
• Updated GUI
• Resolved issues with the updater utility 

We've also posted beta released of the Rovio Software for Mac setup and the Rovio Firmware Updater tool in the downloads area. Test them out and let us know how it works for you guys.

Have fun and happy testing!