I’m having a bear of a time setting up my brand new Photon. Just got it in the mail and cannot get past the flashing blue. Here’s what I’ve tried:
Plugged into USB power and tried setup with the iPhone app. I can log in to the Particle cloud successfully, but when I get to the step where I connect to the Photon Wi-Fi, I connect then nothing happens. I see that I’m connected to the Photon Wi-fi, but when I go back to the app, it just sits at the instruction page. I also never get a notification from the Particle app as seen in the “Show Me How” video.
Changed wall warts, USB cables, etc. – still nothing.
Tried connecting directly through USB to my Windows computer. Got node.js and npm set up, particle-cli installed, etc. When I run particle setup, it finds the Photon connected through USB but then I get the following error: Potentially unhandled rejection [2] Unable to find mac address in response (WARNING: non-Error used). I can move past this, where it finds “Photon-xxxx” and it gets the “magical claim code” but then I get the following: Woops. Something went wrong connecting to Photon-xxxx. Please manually re-connect to your Wi-Fi network.
I’ve done factory resets, DFU mode, and nothing seems work (DFU mode is another issue, it doesn’t find the photon_tinker.bin file, but I’m in over my head with the libusb stuff). I just cannot get past the flashing blue.
Same here and I also tried the CLI “particle setup wifi” as suggested by Moors7. Sometimes I even get that serial comm doesn’t work.
My photon seems to randomly connect and disconnect from the web, and the compiler isn’t even working at this point, when I press the verify button I get “compiler timed out or encountered an error.” and all doing is void setup(){} void loop{}
I would suggest that we just wait until someone here posts answers, like I said I’ve tried everything: CLI, factory reset, etc.
Well would you look at that. I’d done that a couple times before and would always get a serial error after the I said: w part. I gave the device key and cloud key instructions at https://community.particle.io/t/photon-setup-flashing-cyan-with-a-quick-red-burst/12118/34 a shot and was running into the same issues with particle setup but now particle setup wifi worked. Thanks for bringing that up!
I don't know, I can't upload code it, I can only compile. If I run
"particle list" sometimes it shows that it's online, sometimes it shows that's offline. The LED is solid blue both times.
How do I do this? Do I have to download all the build tools and compile?