Hey Guys, So I just received the Electron yesterday and I was able to flash my code to it. As soon as I turned it on, I could get the breathing cyan. Today for some reason I turn it on and its flashing cyan forever. Cant seem to breathe and I’m checking the dashboard and it still says there was no …

Yes, flashing cyan with an occasional red blink on both Electron and Photon is an issue currently being investigated. The discussion is going on in the thread linked to above.

That’s what mine is doing, even after it was reported that everything is working.

If you’re still getting red/orange flashes after fast blinking cyan now that the cloud is stable, you might have a keys issue. Put the Electron into Listening mode (blinking blue) by holding down SETUP until it blinks blue. Then issue the CLI command: particle identify Save the Device ID; you’ll …

Mine is working now but I only made it half way through your instructions. When I was in DFU mode I had to install drivers on my computer and in the process unplugged the cable which power cycled the Photon again, when it came back it connected to the cloud. So entering either listening mode or DF…

I’m having the same issue with a brand new Particle. I should note it is an Africa/Asia/Europe model running 0.4.8. I tried the above with no success, I’ll try updating the firmware. Any other thoughts?

After updating the firmware to 0.6.1, same deal. I’ll also note that I’m in East Africa right now. I get a medium-fast cyan flashing, then really fast cyan blinking, with an occasional 3 fast red blinks thrown in here or there.

Flashing Cyan on Electron with occasional red

Troubleshooting

RobMeades August 2, 2016, 2:10pm 2

Could be this: Particle API Down?.

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Flashing Cyan on Electron with occasional red

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