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Configuring the ZED-F9P
So, you’ve a selection of expensive hardware in front of you – what next?
Well, before you plug them in, you did do those board checks first, as mentioned here ?

First, get the firmware and configuration files here, so go grab them (you can get them all in one zip file here.

Unzip them, the 4 text files are the configuration you upload to the F9Ps, and the .bin file is the firmware.

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Follow this ArduSimple Guide (except step 1, you already have the firmware) on how to perform a firmware upgrade, for which you’ll need U-Center installed on your PC.

OK, but which files do I choose, and which file goes where?
Dual-antenna
If you’re using the Micro F9Ps, the Ag board will need 12V to power it up, and use the micro USB jacks to connect to your PC one at a time! If you’re using the standard F9Ps that have the USB jack on, use the jack at the FRONT next to the antenna connector, not the one at the rear. You can flash the standard ones direct with your PC, you do not need them plugged into the board.

On the board, and looking at them from the point of “antenna jack at the front”, you’ll have a LEFT and a RIGHT socket. Plug one of the Micro F9Ps in and And PLUG an antenna in, don’t power up the F9P without one. Remember, Micros are powered by the board. It doesn’t matter which port you use to flash the firmware/config, but don’t get them mixed up afterwards. Note which is which.

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Open U-Center, and connect to your F9P (there should only be one) and it will have picked a COM port number (this is why you do one at a time); In the top left menus, find that COM port and pick a speed of 460800. You should now be connected (bottom right):

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Open Tools, Receiver Configuration,

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and pick 1.32 DualAntennaHeading_RelPos.txt – and then click “Transfer File → GNSS”.

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Once that’s done, go to View, Messages View, and SAVE IT! This will be the F9P that will end up in your left-hand socket.

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Then, power the board down, disconnect USB and put the other one in, reconnect USB, power up the board.

Follow the same procedure and this time pick 1.32 DualAntennaPosition_GGA VTG RTCM.txt. This will be the F9P going in the right-hand socket.

As above, save. And that’s about that for Duals.

Single Antenna
Same process as above, update the firmware first but there’s only one configuration file to send, and that’s 1.32 SingleAntennaRover.txt