I have a Photon 1, and it been working well for more than a year. But now it has lost the wifi connection most of the time and is very unstable and unpredictable. ( I am a newbie in to this world , and have actually now coding skills, but managed to have it working well by copy and paste)
The green light flashes fast most of the time. But suddenly it work for some hours or seconds. Then it after a day it starts to work, for some hours, and then not.
I have no problems with other devices connected to the wifi. And I have checked, with the help of an app in my telephone, the signals and loadings to/from the wifi. And the wifi signal is the same quality when the Photon is connected and when it is not.
I wonder if it is a hardware problem? Since I am not so familiar with programming etc I want to be “sure” that this is something I can solve before connecting the device to my computer. What do you think I have to do?
Your phone almost certainly supports both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi, and the Photon only supports 2.4 GHz, so the performance may not be comparable.
Though you mentioned that the Photon is stuck in fast blinking green. That typically indicates that the Photon was able to connect to the access point but is unable to obtain an IP address. There could be a DHCP configuration issue in your router, or your LAN has run out of IP addresses.
I’d try running the cloud debug firmware on it to see if it outputs any useful debugging messages. This will also rule out any problems caused by user firmware.
https://docs.particle.io/troubleshooting/connectivity/cloud-debug/
Thanks, I will try.
However it is strange that sometimes it connects and that there is a blue light and connction for a while.
(I use the 2,4 Ghz signal from the router)
I did - What does this say?
And After 30 minutes of blue it now started to blinking green again!
Connected to USB serial
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I pushed the button on the device and then it started to give this informa
Connected to USB serial
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Disconnected from USB serial, will attempt to reconnect
Connected to USB serial
e[999;999He[6n> 0000015090 [app] INFO: Starting Tests!
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0000015090 [app] INFO: Binary compiled for: 2.3.0
0000015090 [app] INFO: Cloud Debug Release 2.3.5
0000015090 [app] INFO: System version: 2.3.0
0000015091 [app] INFO: Device ID: 4f0041000e51353532343635
0000015091 [app] INFO: No Ethernet (not Gen 3)
0000015101 [app] INFO: Antenna: internal
0000015108 [app] INFO: IP Address Configuration: dynamic
0000015116 [app] INFO: Configured credentials:
0000015130 [app] INFO: ssid=NETatONCE-731E security=wpa2 cipher=AES
0000015130 [app] INFO: Available access points:
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0000035875 [app] INFO: Still trying to connect to Wi-Fi 00:20
0000045875 [app] INFO: Still trying to connect to Wi-Fi 00:30
0000055875 [app] INFO: Still trying to connect to Wi-Fi 00:40
0000065875 [app] INFO: Still trying to connect to Wi-Fi 00:50
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0000085875 [app] INFO: Still trying to connect to Wi-Fi 01:10
0000095875 [app] INFO: Still trying to connect to Wi-Fi 01:20
0000105875 [app] INFO: Still trying to connect to Wi-Fi 01:30
0000115875 [app] INFO: Still trying to connect to Wi-Fi 01:40
0000125875 [app] INFO: Still trying to connect to Wi-Fi 01:50
0000135875 [app] INFO: Still trying to connect to Wi-Fi 02:00
HURRA!
I think I understood and was able to solve the problem by using the Device Doctor. I think the Photon had difficulty to find the wifi, since the signal for the extension or amplifier xxxx_EXT, was stronger, and it choose that one, I guess thats the reason why it sometimes did work. I changed wifi network to the xxxxx_EXT and hope that it will continue to work.
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