Photon SoftAP using PhoneGap

OMG! @nexxy, @christine and @msolters That is amazing! I am reasonably good at Phonegap (~5 years teaching it) but know nothing about meteor, so I opened it on the free cloud9 website http://c9.io

Not knowing anything about meteor I then opened a terminal and typed

meteor 

and hit enter. The service installed some stuff and then gave me an error. So I then googled a bit and typed

meteor --port $IP:$PORT

The service gave me my URL, which I then loaded on my Android device.

(Note: This will probably work from any desktop or laptop browser with Wifi capability!)

Set my photon onto flashing blue (3 seconds left button, usb connection facing up) and then the amazing bit of software worked, I could see the device, change my wifi to connect to it, and then I could set my wifi credentials. I have not gone farther since this photon is already setup, but I am so impressed. Plus it took longer to write this message than to actually run the program :smile: .

Well done guys.

P.S. free cloud9 deactivates in 24 hours. You have to open a new terminal and type

meteor --port $IP:$PORT

Great for teaching. I think it is ~$5/month to have it activated permanently.

Afterthought: Doesn’t this replace the Particle App for connection at least and shouldn’t a link to a webpage like this be accessible from the main http://particle.io page @bryce ?

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