After a 2.5 year hiatus away from teaching, I have once again joined an institution to teach Electronics and Networking. I summarily took out my box of Particle Photon devices I previously used for my class and started by telling the class to download the Particle.io configuration tool from the Play Store. Imagine my surprise when I realised it is no longer there. Or am I missing something?
I know it has been 2 years since I used a Photon but the app on my phone still works. Is there another place I can download the app from or is there another way I do not yet know about to configure the Photon?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
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The recommended way to configure a device (including the Photon) is setup.particle.io.
@rickkas7 Thank you.
the particle app was able to configure a device via peer to peer ad hoc wifi. i don't see that method available in setup.particle.io. is there a way?
Particle devices have never supported peer-to-peer Wi-Fi for cloud connectivity.
Gen 2 devices (Photon and P1) used Wi-Fi for configuration (Soft AP), but do not allow the use of it for cloud connectivity. Gen 3 devices never supported AP mode.
sorry i wasn't clear. i'm looking at a gen2 device i believe. a cleverpet. i'm trying to get it configured. i had previously used the android app to do so. i don't see a way to do that in the web. is it still possible to configure?
Can you get to the USB port on the CleverPet? If so, using the Particle CLI particle serial wifi command is the best option to reset the Wi-Fi credentials without changing device ownership.
It's possible that CLI particle setup might work over Wi-Fi if the device is in listening mode (blinking dark blue) but I don't remember how the devices were set up and it may cause issues as the device will be claimed to your account. Though the Android app also affect claiming, so maybe it is OK.
i don't see how to get to the usb port on it. it's fine to claim the device. that's how it worked via the android app. i think it was purely claiming the device to then configure the wifi and that was it.