Tachyon still log registering

I added a comment to a post by another member back in July about my Tachyon not connecting to the cloud. No solutions to the problem were ever offered in response.

After over two months I decided to try again, hoping that the problem was on the Particle side and not mine and that it may have been since resolved by new firmware or something similar.

I went through the entire setup process from scratch again. Easily and successfully performed all the steps for headless mode including connecting to my WiFi and downloading firmware via that route. Upon completion of the entire process, the Tachyon was still flashing yellow. I removed all power to force a reboot, but upon powering back up it displays a solid red LED.

The process has resulted in the device appearing in the Console as registerd to my account, but it will still not connect to the cloud.

PLEASE help! What am I missing?

The terminal message should tell you to press the power button again - that will boot the tachyon. It should connect after a minute.

Unfortunately, it did not tell me to do that but i did anyway. Didn’t connect. Continued to flash yellow.

Hi, for how long did you press the power button? more than 3 seconds and the device enters the setup process (blinking yelow)

What if you press the button for 1 second max?

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That was it! Held too long. That would have been a helpful note in the overall setup instructions (or did I miss it?). Thanks yet again Gus!

You’re welcome.

And yes, it’s there :wink:

Best of luck!

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