I guess I have to tick the check box in invoke the 5GHz?
I don’t think I can choose WPA on its own.
Any other suggestions or do you think I need to send it back. I would prefer not to - being in the UK it will take ages to get something back.
Chip antenna i guess… My best bet is to factory reset, send the credentials and let it sit for a while.
Do you want me to use my hotspot or my proper wireless connection. I already tried sitting for connection last night - over an hour.
If I tick the 5GHz box and call it Apple5. It shows up on my IPhone as a different network SSID. So I think it is only communicating on the 2.4GHz band.
I had already taken it to work and tried it there - but still no joy.
Hi. Thanks for all the suggestions, but despite everything my Spark fails to get past the flashing green status. I have tried reflashing to the latest firmware from https://github.com/spark/cc3000-patch-programmer/tree/master/build, setting up via the iOS app and via USB (USB always seems to take, iOS app seems to work sometimes and not other times), changing router from auto/b/g/n to b/g only, tried WPA2, WPA, WEP and no security and no matter what I do it always sits at flashing green. It seems to take the wifi settings without problem, progressing from flashing blue to flashing green, but just doesn’t connect at all. It’s really frustrating.
All of the LED flashing patterns appear to be correct (so ref lashing the firmware shows the correct progression through purple etc.) so the firmware appears to be loaded and operating correctly.
I’ve tried two different routers (an EE Bright Box and an Apple Airport Express, using different SSIDs and security combinations) and still no success.
I’ve tried different power sources (laptop, iPhone charger and third party USB charger with 1A and 2.1A outputs) and always the same result.
It’s a chip antenna model.
At present this appears to be the most frustrating experience. I’d appreciate any further advice as at the moment, this is going to be a request for refund as non functioning device, which I don’t want to do!!
Security set to WPA again (have tried before but figured I’d try again!)
Channel confirmed as 5
There doesn’t appear to be a 5GHz setting on the current router (there was on the Apple Airport but I’m using the ISP supplied router to test at the mo since the Apple one was failing too, I’ll switch back again shortly)
Factory reset done and wireless setting resent via app
Still flashing green and frustrated!
I will leave it overnight next to the router to see if it connects, but not looking promising so far.
Really, really want to get this working as have a couple of great ideas!
Still no joy, can’t get past flashing green. I left it overnight to see if it would connect, but with no success. I’ve tried again reflashing core firmware and the patch update from https://github.com/spark/cc3000-patch-programmer/tree/master/build all with no change. Again tried two different routers, no security, WEP, WPA and WPA2, AES and TKIP and auto cypher. Forced a channel of 3 and 6 (less than 11), forced b/g mode. Nothing gets it past flashing green.
I’m only left with the conclusion that there’s something wrong with my SparkCore! Can I get it swapped out to another?
Hi there, @andrewgamlyn - please drop me a line at hello@spark.io (and refer to this thread). I’ll have one of our engineers comb this thread to make sure we’re not missing something, and get you a replacement issued, stat. @kennethlimcp, as always, thank you so much for your help!
@andrewgamlyn. Did you try my suggestion above. I had exactly the same problem as you and like you tried everything. This did work. I appreciate the final update has still yet to be finished, but it worked for me.
@foggy you are truly awesome! Followed your instructions to the letter, and within 3 minutes I have breathing cyan and a working Spark. No messing around, it simply connected do my default Wifi network, no settings to change! Kudos to you for such a simple set of instructions and apologies to @teke and @kennethlimcp for making a mere suggestion that it was faulty!
The only thing I had to do that wasn’t mentioned was elevate my command prompt to install spark-cli but otherwise really straightforward.
Wow, I went through everything above and finally got to @foggy’s comment. That was the only thing that worked! I went through full re-flash of factory firmware, applied the patch, setup over Android, over wifi, and was going crazy since my other core connected fine.
Thank you, thank you @foggy, I suggest that you put a post at the top of the list to check all the way at the bottom, FIRST!
When ever I’m trying to connect the core to the nearby wifi networks, it’s flashing only green colour,The router is beside my core but still not getting connected? I did reset for around 100 times and again repeated the process but still the same condition. What to do? Reply ASAP
and frustrated!