Wireless Locking up
Wireless Locking up
Every few days i have to power cycle the wireless module or I lose connection to the controller. Is anyone else having this problem?
I am running the .9.2 Dev libraries without the watchdog timer enabled.
is this the only way to fix the problem?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I am running the .9.2 Dev libraries without the watchdog timer enabled.
is this the only way to fix the problem?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Re: Wireless Locking up
Do you have slow green blinking when that happens?
Is the blue blinking at all?
Is the blue blinking at all?
Roberto.
Re: Wireless Locking up
no, its blinking like normal. at least from what i can tell.
I activated the watchdog timer maybe i will turn it off and see
I activated the watchdog timer maybe i will turn it off and see
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I don't know if this is the same problem, but every few days I lose the connection from the wireless to my iphone app or the client. I either have to unplug and plug in the wifi unit or reset my router....and the green light is blinking slowly at the same pace as when it is working, no blue light
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Thats what I have been fighting with. So far its been OK which is good since we are away on a family emergancy.
It has been better since wiping it abd redoing the settings
It has been better since wiping it abd redoing the settings
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+1, I've had it all set up twice and overnight I lose the connection to the portal and my iPhone.
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No on the blue light. Router has been up until just moments ago when I checked the port forwarding and rebooted it to see if I could get it working.
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Did you check if the ip address changed?
Can you ping the ip address?
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Can you ping the ip address?
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Roberto.
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Is there any way to tell from the controller when this occurs, and send a 'resrart' to the wick module? Like a hardware watchdog timer?
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Re: Wireless Locking up
Here are the ideas that the manufacturer gave me to try:
in our latest firmware,
we have a "back door" command that you can use to reboot the module
you use "set sys debug 0x80"
and then "set a r 86400" // 3600 * 24 seconds = 1 day....
but this only works if you are NOT connected to the AP.
you could set the sleep timer to sleep after XXXX seconds and then wake right away:
set sys sleep 86400 // sleep once per day or maybe much more often? 3600 = once per hour
set sys wake 1 // wakes right back up after 1 second.
They recently changed their FTP server.We do have a new build ver 2.33 I would like you to try. You can get it via "ftp u wifly7-233.img"
Check to see if any one of those help you.The FTP server's IP address has changed. Please refer to the following to point your module to the correct IP address:
http://rovingnetworks.com/FAQs/I_get_FT ... o_upgrade_
my_WiFly_module
The command you need to issue is "ftp u wifly-233.img" after you point the module to the new FTP server.
Roberto.
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I just tried the first two commands . We will see how it goes. I usually do fine untill the power gets interupted at my AP. After that I have to unplug and replug the controller to get it to reconnect. I just want it to reconnect automatically once a day.
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I have had several power outages and the wireless consistently reconnects on it's on. The only Wierd think is that the portal does have any history past July 27. I used the first two of the commands above. They are clearly working.
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I have had several power outages since using the commands above and the wireless consistently reconnects on it's on. The only wierd thing is that the portal does not have any history past July 27. I used the first two of the commands above. They are clearly working.
Wireless Locking up solved!!
Ok here is the final verdict. Using the option below works:
Input this code into your wireless module:
set sys sleep 86400 // sleep once per day or maybe much more often? 3600 = once per hour
set sys wake 1 // wakes right back up after 1 second.
I use 3600 seconds to put my wireless to sleep and to wake it back up every hour. I used the davemotion wireless utility advanced screen to upload the code to my wireless module. Be sure to use $$$ before each command and enter the save command to save the code.
The first option above interferes with uploading to the portal so don't use it.
Since enabling this option, I have never lost a connection for more than one hour and my portal history is intact.
Input this code into your wireless module:
set sys sleep 86400 // sleep once per day or maybe much more often? 3600 = once per hour
set sys wake 1 // wakes right back up after 1 second.
I use 3600 seconds to put my wireless to sleep and to wake it back up every hour. I used the davemotion wireless utility advanced screen to upload the code to my wireless module. Be sure to use $$$ before each command and enter the save command to save the code.
The first option above interferes with uploading to the portal so don't use it.
Since enabling this option, I have never lost a connection for more than one hour and my portal history is intact.
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I thought I had done this correctly but I'm guessing not as can not log into the portal anymore.
When I did it I did the $$$ to get the command mode line then typed:
set sys sleep 86400 // (enter)
then it would go out of command mode and would have to log back in and do $$$ again to get it in command line then entered set sys wake 1 // and saved the config. Did I only save the sys wake command?
When I did it I did the $$$ to get the command mode line then typed:
set sys sleep 86400 // (enter)
then it would go out of command mode and would have to log back in and do $$$ again to get it in command line then entered set sys wake 1 // and saved the config. Did I only save the sys wake command?
-Dave
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If you use get instead of set, you can pull the information store in the memory.
Roberto.
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Looks like this works for me also. Ive now gone a week with out having to reboot the wifi device! Thanks!
-Dave
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I am having issues with attaching to the Rovingnetwork FTP server to upgrade the Wifly firmware. Have they changed the address again?
In the August 20th posting http://www.rovingnetworks.com/FAQs/I_ge ... Fly_module the address no longer works.
Does anyone have a current IP address?
Thanks
In the August 20th posting http://www.rovingnetworks.com/FAQs/I_ge ... Fly_module the address no longer works.
Does anyone have a current IP address?
Thanks
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Yes, that's the last one I used.
They keep on changing it though. I've used about 3 or 4 servers already.
They got bought out by Microchip and until things settle, we will see this stuff happening.
I went ahead and used a FTP client and it did connect to that server.
They keep on changing it though. I've used about 3 or 4 servers already.
They got bought out by Microchip and until things settle, we will see this stuff happening.
I went ahead and used a FTP client and it did connect to that server.
Roberto.
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Roberto
I tried connecting to that address with an FTP client and got "530 User anonymous cannot log in" returned
In trying to upgrade my wifly I seem to have bricked it, your wizard does not resolve the problem neither does dmortons. Or I am doing something wrong. Do you have a working image of the firmware file? Or suggestion?
The reason for getting myself in this mess is that I had two wifi dropouts while I was away and thought this thread might solve the problem.
I tried connecting to that address with an FTP client and got "530 User anonymous cannot log in" returned
In trying to upgrade my wifly I seem to have bricked it, your wizard does not resolve the problem neither does dmortons. Or I am doing something wrong. Do you have a working image of the firmware file? Or suggestion?
The reason for getting myself in this mess is that I had two wifi dropouts while I was away and thought this thread might solve the problem.
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if you use tera term or putty, can you connect to it and issue commands?
Can you use "factory Reset" command?
the username for their ftp is Roving and password is Pass123. Both case sensitive.
Can you use "factory Reset" command?
the username for their ftp is Roving and password is Pass123. Both case sensitive.
Roberto.
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Yes I can through Putty.
Thanks for FTP user an pw, will give it a try later.
Thanks for FTP user an pw, will give it a try later.
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After several attempts I managed to get the firmware updated.
The latest version is 2.36
To get it to work I had to change several settings in the wifi config. Here are the commands that I sent to the Wifi.
1. Change the FTP server address to point to rn.microchip.co (IP 198.175.253.161 )
2. Change the FTP user name to roving (case sensitive)
3. Change password to Pass123 (case sensitive)
4 Save changes
5. Update firmware
6. Reboot
The above worked for me on 17th September 2012, but the server address seems to change without notification as mentioned in a previous post.
I found it worthwhile to download the manual which I have attached.
The latest version is 2.36
To get it to work I had to change several settings in the wifi config. Here are the commands that I sent to the Wifi.
1. Change the FTP server address to point to rn.microchip.co (IP 198.175.253.161 )
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set ftp address 198.175.253.161
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set ftp username roving
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set password Pass123
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save
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ftp update
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reboot
I found it worthwhile to download the manual which I have attached.
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Re: Wireless Locking up
Posed this question in one of the other wifi threads. Thought I would ask here too.
Anyone try the 2.3.6/2.4.2/2.4.5 firmware updates yet?
ftp://rn.microchip.com/public/wifly-236.img
ftp://rn.microchip.com/public/wifly-242.img
ftp://rn.microchip.com/public/wifly-245.img
Login: rovin
Password: Pass123
I see Sebyte has upgraded to 2.3.6 anything any better?
Anyone try the 2.3.6/2.4.2/2.4.5 firmware updates yet?
ftp://rn.microchip.com/public/wifly-236.img
ftp://rn.microchip.com/public/wifly-242.img
ftp://rn.microchip.com/public/wifly-245.img
Login: rovin
Password: Pass123
I see Sebyte has upgraded to 2.3.6 anything any better?
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Wireless Locking up
I'll have to see about upgrading my unit as well. While I was away on vaca this week I had to haven wife reboot the device which turned into a chore for her. Lol prior to that it was working decent since the last update.
-Dave