# Blue Pill panels boot animation during startup. **Should my BPI product have an animation during startup ?** Below is a table summarising the status of implementing the boot animations to various products:

Controller	Status	Comments
AIRFLY	RELEASED
QUICKBAR	RELEASED
AIRFLYPROV2	On hold
AIRFLYPROV3	RELEASED
BLUE PILL SERVER	RELEASED
COLORFLYV3	RELEASED
FRAMESHOTUNO	RELEASED
HEIREPLAYV2	RELEASED
HEISIDECAR	RELEASED
INLINE10	RELEASED
INLINE22V2	RELEASED
LIVEFLY	RELEASED	Nkk version was added in v 0.1.7
MASTERKEYONEV2	RELEASED	2 Versions: single and double bus
MINIFLY	RELEASED
MK48	RELEASED
MKA1	TO BE DONE
MKA2/PTZ VIEW	RELEASED
MKA3	TO BE DONE
MKA4 \| Quickshot	RELEASED
MKT1A/B \| T-Block R/L	RELEASED
PTZEXTREMEV2	RELEASED
PTZFLY	RELEASED
PTZPROV2	RELEASED
PTZWIZV2	RELEASED
RACKCONTROLDUO	RELEASED
RACKCONTROLUNO	RELEASED
RACKCTRLXK1	RELEASED
RACKCTRLXK2	RELEASED
RACKCTRLXK3	RELEASED
RACKFLYDUO	RELEASED
RACKFLYTRIO	RELEASED
RACKFLYUNO	RELEASED
RACKFUSIONLIVE	RELEASED	Nkk added in v0.2.9.
RACKPRO1	RELEASED
RACKPRO2	RELEASED
RACKPRO3	RELEASED
RCPPRO	RELEASED
RCPV2	RELEASED
WAVEBOARDV2	RELEASED
WAVEBOARD MINI	RELEASED
XC8S	RELEASED
XPOINT24	RELEASED	Had wrong file, fixed in v0.1.9
XPOINT48V2	RELEASED
FRAMESHOTPRO	RELEASED
REDIRON/ RC-SK5	RELEASED

**My product is in the list, but I do not see any animation during startup?** There are various reasons for this to happen, eventually your controller tried to flash the special firmware to the chip and failed for some reason and as a result it saved a "failed attempt" flag and does not try to do it again as it would happen every time hardware-manager is restarted. There are 2 ways to try to recover the boot animations. We will start with a simple one: 1. Power the panel. 2. Make sure your panel has "RELEASED" status in table above, update Reactor package to the latest version. 3. Also please make sure panel has latest operating system version as well as hardware-manager package. 4. Find out panels IP address and in your browser go to x.x.x.x/tools. (Substitute x with IP of your Panel) 5. Make sure you see "HW Bootscreen Repair" section. Check the status field.[![image.png](https://wiki.skaarhoj.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/scaled-1680-/3tlimage.png)](https://wiki.skaarhoj.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-12/3tlimage.png)

Status	Boot Animation at Startup	Comments
OK	YES	Everything is good, no need to do anything
OK	NO	Click on "Reset Hardware Boot Animation Update" and restart hardware-manager when asked
Failed to update	NO	Click on "Reset Hardware Boot Animation Update" and restart hardware-manager when asked
Unknown	YES/NO	This means your panel or specific version of your panel does not have a Bootscreen animation firmware available.

1. If one has clicked "Reset Hardware Boot Animation Update" after restarting hardware manager one should see "Wait Please!" message on all of the screens of the panel! **It is crucial not to interfere or power cycle the panel at this stage**, as it can "brick" the chip being flashed without the possibility to recover. Once flashing the chip is done one will see a "short"(5 sec) animation and controller will switch to its normal operation. 2. Try to power cycle your panel - the boot animation should be running the first ~30 seconds while main operating system is booting. Another "walk-around" solution would be the following (might be the way to if your panel does not have Reactor due to Licensing constrains): 1. Make sure your panel has internet access. 2. Goto 'Settings' page. 3. Panel should have the latest Operating system version or at least v1.1 . So please check the version you have and update if needed. (Also **backup your Reactor projects**, as we will perform full file system erase further.) 4. Press and hold \[Shift\] button on your keyboard and click "Reset" button with the mouse. 5. You should see the "HARD System Reset" dialog and click 'Confirm' if you wish to proceed. 6. In approximately 30-40 seconds panel should restart and one should see "Wait Please!" message on all of the screens of the panel! **It is crucial not to interfere or power cycle the panel at this stage**, as it can "brick" the chip being flashed without the possibility to recover. Once flashing the chip is done you will see a "short"(5 sec) animation and controller will switch to its normal operation. 7. Try to power cycle your panel - the boot animation should be running the first ~30 seconds while main operating system is booting. [![reset.jpg](https://wiki.skaarhoj.com/uploads/images/gallery/2024-04/scaled-1680-/0jereset.jpg)](https://wiki.skaarhoj.com/uploads/images/gallery/2024-04/0jereset.jpg) [![image.png](https://wiki.skaarhoj.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-11/scaled-1680-/Zf7image.png)](https://wiki.skaarhoj.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-11/Zf7image.png)