Tutorial: Local Cloud 1st Time instructions [01 Oct 15]

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I have followed this tutorial exactly and had trouble correctly getting my Photon to connect to my local cloud. I just want to share the things I had to do to get it working properly.

Make sure your node version is 0.10.36.

After downloading particle-cli, you need to change several lines in ApiClient.js
(/usr/local/lib/node_modules/particle-cli/lib/ApiClient.js)

from https://github.com/spark/spark-cli/blob/4f06c4bac32e3e75ecfcb217261b8bf57e1b7b47/lib/ApiClient.js

REPLACE the similar looking code with the following:

//GET /oauth/token
login: function (client_id, user, pass) {
	var that = this;

	return this.createAccessToken(client_id, user, pass).then(function(resp) {
		console.log("Got an access token! " + resp.access_token);
		that._access_token = resp.access_token;
		return that._access_token;
	}).catch(function (err) {
		console.error("Login error: ", err);
		return when.reject();
	});
},

This would allow you to create an account on you local cloud. Your local cloud DOES NOT know about your Particle Cloud account. When following the instructions in this tutorial, I was always signed in and never logged out. I decided to log out and I was never able to log in nor was I able to create an account until I changed the code on that file.

Make sure you do a

particle update

to make sure the system firmware is up to date.

Doing these 3 things helped me correctly run a local cloud, connect all my Photons to that local cloud, and control them through the iOS SDK with this small change [SOLVED] iOS SDK on Local Cloud