Folks, brand new to Photons and followed the instructions on
https://docs.particle.io/guide/getting-started/start/photon/ to get my Photons connected via my Iphone.
Via iphone
Following the steps and it fails on the last step supposedly because of wrong Wifi password / credentials etc.
During all these steps the Photon was flashing blue. Typically switched to Green when trying to connect and then reverted back to blue when it was not successful.
So I thought Ok, maybe something else going on.
Via CLI
Install CLI and tried with that.
When using CLI it is stuck on
> Obtaining device information...
until you cancel it.
So searched a little and found Photon might be claimed by someone and did the
Particle identify.
It provides the deviceID number but then follows with the following:
So I assume something is not right.
I was searching for any references but could not find anything related to Access denied on a COM Port.
For some reason it is not able to connect to my WIFI network which is
Just to make sure it is not the password itself or the security protocol I removed special characters from my password and also switched to just WPA2 and that made no difference.
I am going to keep searching through the community section but at this point I would appreciate ANY help or pointers to other articles I might have missed to help me move forward.
I am running Windows 10
Disclaimer I messed around with DFU on one Photon which did not chance anything and the behavior is still the same as with the other 2 Photons I did not mess around with.
Thanks for any assistance