{"id":18934,"date":"2024-09-19T16:16:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T20:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/?p=18934"},"modified":"2024-09-24T10:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:18:48","slug":"mdi-2-manager-software-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/?p=18934","title":{"rendered":"MDI 2 Manager Software Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new software update for the MDI 2 Manager is being rolled out to GM dealerships (U.S.) The staggered rollout of the new MDI 2 Manager software (version 9.1.2202.128) includes several enhancements, including to the Point-to-Point (dongle) wireless channel selection algorithm, which will address some of the MDI 2 connection issues that technicians may be experiencing. It also contains an update to the wireless dongle firmware.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The update for the MDI 2 Manager application software, which allows the MDI 2 (Fig. 8) to communicate with the host computer, should automatically download and install when opening Techline Connect (TLC).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18946 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/F08-MDI-2-image-v2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/F08-MDI-2-image-v2.png 740w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/F08-MDI-2-image-v2-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/F08-MDI-2-image-v2-85x55.png 85w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/F08-MDI-2-image-v2-200x130.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><strong>Fig. 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The initial rollout of the software update will include a select list of dealers from several states. Additional dealers in other states will be added over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the update becomes available to your dealership, the MDI 2 Manager update will begin when logging in to Techline Connect. As a user, full administrative rights are needed to install the update. If encountering issues with the MDI 2 Manager update not installing or functioning properly, right click on the TLC icon on the desktop and select \u201cRun as administrator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any questions about the software update should be directed to the Techline Customer Support Center (TCSC) at 1-800-828-6860.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>&#8211; Thanks to Chris Henley<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new software update for the MDI 2 Manager is being rolled out to GM dealerships (U.S.) The staggered rollout of the new MDI 2 Manager software (version 9.1.2202.128) includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-september-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18934"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18952,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18934\/revisions\/18952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}