Wifi problems after 7 months

[lmolenmaker]

Hi Guys,

Can somebody please help me figuring out what to do with my wifi attachment.

After 7 months working flawlessly, I noticed that I couldn't connect to my portal. Out of the 20 times I refresh the page I was able to access my portal maybe once. All the other times I get unreachable address. (wifi was blinking green).

So I figured out, maybe my router is not working well. unfortunately that is not the case. I did a factory reset on the router and set everything up as before with the port forwarding and all. Same name and password. Wifi attachment still not connecting to my portal.

So i thought , why not reset the wifi attachment to factory defaults, which I did. (now the wifi is blinking green and blue). Big mistake ! When I launch the wifi utility software it asks me to select the serial port (which is 3 in my case) and then click on connect, so far so good, it talks to the wifi attachment and then I clicked on update firmware, now I got a message "error, please disconnect and reconnect the usb-ttl cable and try again". After trying again, same message.
Also if I try to setup the wifi attachment after filling in the ssid and password, I get the same message.

My guess is that the usb-ttl cable is malfunctioning as when I try to connect the reefangel to the computer, it says 90% out of the same 20 times usb device not recognized and windows detected a problem. I have un-installed the reefangel controller program and reinstalled it again in the hope that the drivers would be installed correctly, with no luck.

Like I said earlier, my guess is that the usb-ttl cable is malfunctioning. Having said that, it then doesn't explain why I was not able to connect to the portal.

It worked fine for 7 months, router is still working well with other devices, so the problem is not with the router.

Hope you guys can help me out here.

Leslie

[rimai]

If you hit that update firmware button, you will need to follow this:
http://forum.reefangel.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4601
The manufacturer released a firmware that has messed up with our configurations.

[lmolenmaker]

Thank you Roberto. It worked.

Now the second part of the problem, the usb-ttl cable issue, more often than not the cable cannot be recognised by pc.

It is driving me nuts and it withholds me from adjusting the code as it is a real pain to get connected to the head unit.

Do you still have the bluetooth available and if so, how much will it cost. Is the bluetooth reliable or is it better to get a new cable?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Leslie

[rimai]

Yes, I have BT available.
PM for details.
I love mine. If you search the forum, you will find out that others do too