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WireOS

WireOS is an OS created by Wire / kercre123.

Wire's goal is to provide a stable, up-to-date, and easily-buildable base for others to clone and modify.

It is based off of the leaked 2.0.1.6076 source code.

Changes made compared to normal DDL firmware

The WireOS README will always be the most up-to-date resource for this.

  • More normal-looking eyes on Vector 2.0
  • A fixed loosepixel animation
  • "unintentional performances" and "intentional performances"
    • Anki-created PR which was never merged
    • It makes him do the binaryeyes and tangram animations on his own sometimes
  • Fixes an EMR reading bug
    • In the original code, the LCD drawing code would read the EMR partition upon every single LCD draw (30 times per second). This seems to have caused I/O weirdness
    • It reads the EMR partition for the hardware model version. Vector 1.0 and 2.0 screens are different, and the code must adjust for that
    • I made it so it only reads on LCD init
  • Uses the Picovoice Porcupine wakeword engine
    • You can customize the wakeword in the wired webserver
  • Includes wired
    • "Wire Daemon"
    • A special webserver program (at :8080) which is where custom wake word training happens, allows you to set the CPU/RAM frequency profile, allows you to opt-out of auto-updates, and lets you set other settings.
  • OS and toolchain upgrade
    • Original OS was built from an ancient Qualcomm BSP based on Yocto Jethro (2015)
    • WireOS is now built with the latest Yocto LTS release as of September 2026 (Wrynose)
    • Clang 20 is now being used for the victor software rather than 5.0.1
    • msm-3.18 -> msm-4.9 kernel
      • Vector now uses 4.9.277 / LF.UM.8.7, the latest kernel released by Qualcomm for this chip
    • softfp -> hardfp
      • Vector had a softfp OS forever due to soft blobs which had to run. After a bit of shimming, everything now works in a hardfp OS, and the OS is now compiled as hardfp.
      • Brings software compatibility up to ~Pi 2
  • Gamma correction
    • His camera now has much less trouble with brightly lit objects
    • Was an Anki-era PR, not my work
  • Rainbow eyes
    • If chosen, his eyes will always cycle through all the hues
    • (this can be chosen in :8888/demo.html)
  • Okao/OMROM facial recongition+detection replaced with YuNet+MobileFaceNet
  • GPU is now actually being utilized to accelerate the new face models
  • More up-to-date libraries
    • TensorFlow v2.19.0
      • Gives us XNNPACK and an OpenCL delegate
    • OpenCV 4.12.0
      • Resulted in much better SDK camera streaming performance
  • Face overlays

Installation

Unlocked Prod

Use this if you have a prod robot which you unlocked with unlock-prod.ota.

There are a few ways to install WireOS in this case.

  1. WireOS is available at skittle's Dev Vector web setup under the Custom Firmware stack.

  2. Or, in the BLE terminal in recovery, after connecting him to Wi-Fi:

ota-start http://ota.pvic.xyz/vic/latest/dev.ota
  1. Or, while SSHed into another CFW:
update-os http://ota.pvic.xyz/vic/latest/dev.ota

PVT prototype running some sort of dev OTA (like 1.6.0.3331d)

systemctl stop anki-robot.target
mount -o rw,remount,exec /data
curl -o /data/update-engine http://ota.pvic.xyz/update-engine
chmod +rwx /data/update-engine
/data/update-engine http://ota.pvic.xyz/vic/latest/dev.ota -v

OSKR

Use this if you unlocked your robot via DDL's official unlock program.

systemctl stop anki-robot.target
mount -o rw,remount,exec /data
curl -o /data/update-engine http://ota.pvic.xyz/update-engine
chmod +rwx /data/update-engine
/data/update-engine http://ota.pvic.xyz/vic/latest/oskr.ota -v