I just got my Core. I connected to it at home. I brought it to work today. My core is blinking green. How do I set the network credentials if Tinker won’t connect because I’ve flashed another program? Basically, how do I get into the core? I tried this: “Is it blinking green and not getting to cyan…

@bko - Thanks for responding! I’m on a password protected WiFi (LinkSys). Pretty vanilla…

Ah ok. I'm not super familiar with Macs. You need to connect TO the spark core's serial connection. I found this: https://blogs.oracle.com/blogsagainbynight/entry/terminal_to_serial_usb_devices See if that helps. Here are the steps they suggested: Open a new Terminal window Find out the "dev…

What kind of password? WPA? WPA2? WEP? He’s worried that if you have WPA + Enterprise you are in a no-go situation.

Hi @robby “Terminal” on the Mac is a shell window, not a serial terminal. You need a serial terminal program like CoolTerm on the Mac–that is the one I use. There are about a zillion ways to do this including Spark CLI and using Unix command line stuff, but I think you will be better off with Coo…

@robby , have you actually had a look at the link @bko had give a few posts up from this? There it states quite clearly, what Brian patiently repeated above: For Mac users, either CoolTerm or screen work. For Linux command line usage, GNU Screen works great. (On OS X, the command line invocation mi…

@ bko! Thanks for all the insight! I’m so leery nowadays with “freeware”… As a programmer myself, I like / demand on getting paid for my work, because I have to pay the government so they can start wars on my behalf… Anyway… What I’m saying is, I’m skiddish about freeware like CoolTerm because they’…

I could be mistaken, but I believe you can also use the Spark CLI for this, which runs on node.js which I hope you find trustworthy enough to use on your machine.

There actually are honest people who give their time and knowledge away for free - see this forum for example. A lot of the people here don’t get paid for answering - your questions, too. But if you are a programmer yourself, whipping up your own lightweight serial monitor should be a no-brainer …

Hey there @robby , Seems like everything has heated up a bit again. I think people, you included, as jumping to some serious conclusions. Let’s all try to cool down a little. I think @ScruffR ’s no-brainer comment was more meant come across as general feeling that sometimes people do give things awa…

Connecting through another network

Troubleshooting

robby November 11, 2014, 6:59pm 19

Did I say that? Did I say "everybody who gives something away for free, must be a criminal!" ???

I simply said: I don't trust "freeware"... Is that OK with you?

Also, notice how I start all my replies with "Thank you for responding" ???

As for your "No brainer" comment...

My next post will be: Spark Core for sale - 50% off... Good job DH

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