HM built cannot configure with wifi and MacOS help

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Clifford.Hubbard

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• Oct 31, 2015

• #1

I can see heatermeter wifi signal but cant seem to see it on web page. Thoughts?
Thanks
Cliff

 

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RalphTrimble

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• Oct 31, 2015

• #2

The HM comes up in Access Point mode by default with recent software. So you want to use a wireless device (like a smart phone, tablet, laptop etc) to scan for and connect to the HM hotspot. Then you can log into the HM through that device and go to CONFIG/NETWORK/WIFI and Scan for and connect to your home wifi network.

Alternately you could plug a LAN cable into the rPi and connect to your wired network, then connect through that to configure your wifi connection.

 

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Clifford.Hubbard

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• Oct 31, 2015

• #3

Okey dokey thank you Ralph!

 

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Clifford.Hubbard

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• Nov 1, 2015

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So i am a little confused. I see heatermeter with my iphone wifi. I choose that. What next?

 

Steve_M

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• Nov 1, 2015

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See https://github.com/CapnBry/HeaterMeter/wiki/HeaterMeter-4.x-Software

Go to http://openwrt.local/ and start the wifi config process. It will be much easier to do this from something other than a phone.

 

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Clifford.Hubbard

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• Nov 1, 2015

• #6

So do i connect to heatermeter than enter http://openwrt.local/ in chrome widow?

 

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Clifford.Hubbard

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• Nov 1, 2015

• #7

And thanks for your help. I have been trying to follow Bryan's page.

 

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RalphTrimble

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• Nov 1, 2015

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You can use the LAN cable method too, the WIKI says DHCP is enabled by default, so you could plug a lan cable into the rPi to your network (that has DHCP server enabled) and connect. Watch the screen on the HM, an IP address should pop up... You can put that IP into a browser on a computer on the same network and the HM page should load.

If you don't have a network port available you could plug the rPi directly into a computer or laptops LAN port, then setup that computers IP address to match the what the HM loads by default (192.168.200.1), so set your computer IP to something like 192.168.200.10 (anything other than 1) and then load a browser and connect to 192.168.200.1 and the HM page should load.

From there you can go to CONFIG/NETWORK/WIFI and SCAN for your WiFi network and connect to it. Once connected to the WiFi network you can now use the IP address assigned through the WiFi network to connect to the HM and pull the LAN cable...

 

Last edited: Nov 1, 2015

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Clifford.Hubbard

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• Nov 1, 2015

• #9

I have rpi a+

 

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RalphTrimble

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• Nov 1, 2015

• #10

scratch that then I guess... Maybe the next guy that has this problem and reads this thread will have a good old model B and find that info useful, unfortunately you're locked into the WIFI config I guess...
Do you have a tablet or laptop computer? That would be better than a phone to use for this task.

 

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Clifford.Hubbard

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• Nov 1, 2015

• #11

I have an
Ipad mini

 

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RalphTrimble

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• Nov 1, 2015

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That should work well, scan for WIFI and connect to HM network, the HM Access Point DHCP should assign the IPad an IP... then put the default HM IP into a browser and the page should load.

 

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Clifford.Hubbard

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• Nov 1, 2015

• #13

Got it on ipad thanks

 

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Clifford.Hubbard

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• Nov 1, 2015

• #14

So i changed probe 0 to TC. Is is trying to save. "Waiting for changes to apply". For close to an hour nw. Thoughts?

 

Steve_M

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• Nov 1, 2015

• #15

Sometimes the web interface is wonky. Press refresh and try again.