Unable to connect to the Spark Cloud

Troubleshooting
1

Hi,
I am a beginner. I am trying the very basic example of blinking an LED through the Spark core. I have connected over USB to a Windows machine(even tried it on Mac )

Until now I have successfully completed

  1. the Smart Config & the network information was found.(solid Blue)

  2. connected to the local wifi network( flashing green & then flashing
    cyan)

But, then after Flashing the code, I expect it to turn into slowly breathing cyan & magenta eventually(& LED blinking ofcourse).But, it doesn’t seem to be happening. I have been stuck on this for the whole day.

Any suggestions on how to solve this issue?

2

means that the core is connected to the Wifi network but not the Spark :cloud:

Do you see your core in the list?

The core should normally be breathing cyan and turn to blinking magenta when there is new code :wink:

3

There is a lot of good troubleshooting info here:

http://docs.spark.io/troubleshooting/

4

Yes, I see the core in the list. I saved, verified & then flashing it.

I tried with different wifi networks too.

5

my question is, is the core breathing cyan? Not the Web IDE response :smiley:

6

No it is not breathing cyan.
It is flashing cyan (8-10 seconds) -> solid white(1 sec) -> flashing green(1 sec) ->flashing cyan again.

7

That means there’s some issue with cloud handshaking. Can you try with a Wifi hotspot on your mobile phone just to be sure?

We can attempt to fix it with a patch if this doesn’t work.

Let me know!

8

Okay. I was trying with the Wifi hotspot using the Android App PDANET+ from my phone until now. It did not work. But, when I used the wifi hosted by the same app on my friend’s phone. It worked ! The only difference being he had the paid version of the app.

Thank you for the suggestions though.

9

Sounds like some sorting out for the wifi network settings…

Let us know if you need more help :wink: