Cli: Particle Serial Claim - looking for syntax please

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I have created a device claim code for my account using the curl API.

Now when I try claiming a device connected to Serial using this claim code but I keep getting an error “claimcode required”. See below.

C:\Users\aggar>particle serial claim
7R/2S0iyFwvRl9ZfKa2oUndKeiZKIfsmguncSC6eLiYOh0ib+0YV2bzkqltIHy/
! claimCode required

I am not sure how the claim code is to be passed as parameter to particle serial claim and could not find reference to it anywhere.

Can someone please help.

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Try wrapping your claim code in double quotes. your code there features some forward slashes (/) which may be taken as path seperators even on Windows.

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Thanks ScruffR - tried that and various other forms but its still saying claimCode required....

C:\Users\aggar>particle serial claim "7R/2S0iyFwvRl9ZfKa2oUndKeiZKIfsmguncSC6eLiYOh0ib+0YV2bzkqltIHy/"
! claimCode required

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I have looked into the implementation for that command but couldn’t quite figure out what exactly is needed, but you could try

particle serial claim <deviceID> <claimCode>

or maybe try

particle serial claim <COMx> <claimCode>

However, I have filed an issue on GitHub for that

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Thanks ScruffR. WIll look forward to hearing more. I also tried the particle serial claim <deviceID> <claimCode> and particle serial claim <COMx> <claimCode> versions but they didn;t work either. There must be a specific syntax its looking for.

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@jvanier has taken on the issue I filed. Maybe he can chime in here to provide the correct syntax.

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The syntax is:

particle serial claim <port> <claimCode>

This is a 63-digit claim code, not a device ID. It’s what you get from the device claims API endpoint.

On the Mac, I was able to get it to work using:

particle serial claim /dev/cu.usbmodemFD3111 ci3CwtnHSy+t37HrLL8KJ4J9LL+OkipxK3F1Yjyvxs3ae6CkJNmgPJmnAnzTbYC

Also note that this only works when the device firmware is 0.6.0 or later. It won’t work with a factory new Photon with 0.5.3 on it until upgraded.

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Thanks @rickkas7 @ScruffR

Can confirm that the following syntax has worked:

particle serial claim COM36 “7R/2S0iyFwvRl9ZfKa2oUndKeiZKIfsmguncSC6eLiYOh0ib+0YV2bzkqltIHy/”

COM36 is the coms port particle is connected to on my windows computer
the rest is claim code

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Strange, I previously suggested this and you said it didn't work

I'm confused :confused:
Or was your device running on a really old version - which would then be a good point to include in the opening post.

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Hi @ScruffR

Yes it didn't work before as the P1 was running an old version. Following @rickkas7 clarification earlier, I upgraded system version first by running and then was able to run particle serial claim in the above format.

Thanks

Kishore

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I keep getting serial timout. Please let me know if this somehow is fixed as I would need it. No time to figure it out now.