{"id":65529,"date":"2026-03-09T16:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65529"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:16:35","slug":"windows-app-for-mlite-880-firmware-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/windows-app-for-mlite-880-firmware-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows App for MLite-880 Firmware Upgrades (UPDATE: FW 1.3 is now available directly at Elecevolve via Windows app upgrade tool)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Dan Robinson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[UPDATE: FW 1.3<\/strong> is now available at Elecevolve under downloads and upgrade works using Windows app]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For users of the MLite-880 portable, Elecevole now offers a Windows app that makes upgrading the firmware of this receiver quite easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A look at the Elecevolve website shows the updater available as an .exe download (see: https:\/\/www.elecevolve.com\/download\/mlite-880<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my initial review of the MLite-880 I noted that undertaking upgrades using the STMCube Programmer software was likely to cause a lot of people headaches, something confirmed in comments by some users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After seeing this Windows app, I decided to go ahead and upgrade my unit to FW 1.2 — the process went smoothly, though I had to recheck various settings, and eliminate the key beep which is returned as a default after the upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We still don’t know when an upgrade beyond 1.2 will be available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Dan Robinson [UPDATE: FW 1.3 is now available at Elecevolve under downloads and upgrade works using Windows app] For users of the MLite-880 portable, Elecevole now offers a Windows app that makes upgrading the firmware of this receiver quite easy. A look at the Elecevolve website shows the updater available as an .exe download […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-h2V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66108,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/revisiting-the-mlite-880\/","url_meta":{"origin":65529,"position":0},"title":"Revisiting the MLite-880","author":"Dan Robinson","date":"May 21, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"by Dan Robinson \u00a0 The MLite-880 portable has been on the market for some time now. 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