- Tue Aug 25, 2015 5:35 am
#184284
Four hours to "get in" to a new Photon.
Some of the gory details below.
Finally in, not entirely sure how or why at this stage... but a few pointers to things that were problems for me...
If after a failed setup, and a power cycle for your Photon, it is winking green, that's it trying... and failing... to connect to your Wifi.
I couldn't get it to connect to my WiFi via WEP
Happily, my router allowed me to set up a guest network. On that, I used WPA with a pre-shared key. It consists of 10 digits. I entered them into the Photon setup "service" as "themselves", in ASCII. I didn't need to convert to hex.
Even after "success" in setup, the thing wouldn't work. Said it was offline. Switched app in Android off, then on again. Suddenly, wretched thing was working. Tinker came up... buried in "Particle", by the way... and worked. Sadly the usual elation wasn't there, given that four hours to turn an LED on and off isn't much of a trade off. And I hate to think what I've done to my Windows XP machine and the things that were, previously, working there. to get this far.
Disappointed. I should have listened to those little voices that urged me never to start with this thing. Just too many ways to not work. Sorry guys. I hope others will find the energy to enjoy this thing, 'cause it IS a tremendous achievement to have made it at all, and it seems that a lot of work has gone into getting it this far.
But set aside a lot of time and patience, if you want to have a go yourself. There's a lot to it, and any one tiny thing will stop you being happy until you can find and fix it... and all the OTHER tiny things.
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First tried an Android.
Seemed to go right, but then fell over right at end, with...
"Setup process could not disconnect from the Photon Wi-Fi network. This is an internal problem... please try running setup again after resetting your Photon and putting it back in blinking blue listen mode if necessary."
Then tried with Windows XP, direct connection, manual entry of Wifi data. Got to near end, and then entered a loop of...
"Obtaining device information" in command line "particle setup" execution.
Pretty boring "home" network, with Motorola SBG6580 at the heart of it. Not new to many of the issues involved.
Very discouraged. Can't get even as far as the "Tinker" example, or "Blink".
Sometimes at end of attempts to set up over Android, the LED between the buttons of the Photon was flashing green... but then when I power cycled everything, even though Photon still flashing green, Andriod wanted to do the setup routine.
Some of the gory details below.
Finally in, not entirely sure how or why at this stage... but a few pointers to things that were problems for me...
If after a failed setup, and a power cycle for your Photon, it is winking green, that's it trying... and failing... to connect to your Wifi.
I couldn't get it to connect to my WiFi via WEP
Happily, my router allowed me to set up a guest network. On that, I used WPA with a pre-shared key. It consists of 10 digits. I entered them into the Photon setup "service" as "themselves", in ASCII. I didn't need to convert to hex.
Even after "success" in setup, the thing wouldn't work. Said it was offline. Switched app in Android off, then on again. Suddenly, wretched thing was working. Tinker came up... buried in "Particle", by the way... and worked. Sadly the usual elation wasn't there, given that four hours to turn an LED on and off isn't much of a trade off. And I hate to think what I've done to my Windows XP machine and the things that were, previously, working there. to get this far.
Disappointed. I should have listened to those little voices that urged me never to start with this thing. Just too many ways to not work. Sorry guys. I hope others will find the energy to enjoy this thing, 'cause it IS a tremendous achievement to have made it at all, and it seems that a lot of work has gone into getting it this far.
But set aside a lot of time and patience, if you want to have a go yourself. There's a lot to it, and any one tiny thing will stop you being happy until you can find and fix it... and all the OTHER tiny things.
====
First tried an Android.
Seemed to go right, but then fell over right at end, with...
"Setup process could not disconnect from the Photon Wi-Fi network. This is an internal problem... please try running setup again after resetting your Photon and putting it back in blinking blue listen mode if necessary."
Then tried with Windows XP, direct connection, manual entry of Wifi data. Got to near end, and then entered a loop of...
"Obtaining device information" in command line "particle setup" execution.
Pretty boring "home" network, with Motorola SBG6580 at the heart of it. Not new to many of the issues involved.
Very discouraged. Can't get even as far as the "Tinker" example, or "Blink".
Sometimes at end of attempts to set up over Android, the LED between the buttons of the Photon was flashing green... but then when I power cycled everything, even though Photon still flashing green, Andriod wanted to do the setup routine.
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