Guys,
I'm at a loss as to what's going on with my 4.2. It's working fine but I think the Raspberry Pi B board is screwed up somehow. This manifested itself when I changed my WiFi at home from a single point router/WiFi to a gateway with multiple access points all sharing the same SSID. I changed the original WiFi router SSID to "obsolete" so that I could still connect to it while I was getting the the new access points up and running. They all have the original SSID and after about a week, most of my devices reconnected to one of the three access points without any issue. I had a couple of Echo Dots that had to be reconfigured but for the most part it was just a transparent cut over.
I didn't think too much about it until I tried to fire up my HeaterMeter 4.2 and it failed to connect. I plugged it in with the network cable and reconfigured the WiFi but it never connected. Now, the thing is completely offline. The Edimax USB isn't blinking blue at all while plugged into the Pi (but it will blink when plugged into a computer USB). When I power it off/on, I get an IP address on the display of 192.168.200.1 and I can ping that from the Windows command line. However, if I go to that same IP with a web page there is nothing. If I do the heatermeter/devices, I also get "No HeaterMeter found at your site".
I found the WiFi config.txt documentation on the github site and manually edited the config.txt file and that didn't help. I even brought it to the office and tried to connect from a different computer and different lan only with the same results. I've reverted that back to the original config.txt before I monkeyed with it to be back in the same spot.
All I can figure since the Edimax isn't blinking is that it's not getting power from the Pi B board and why it isn't connecting to anything. I still don't understand why I can't get logged into it via wired Ethernet though. I can ping it but that's it. I'd just try it with another Pi B but Amazon doesn't seem to have those anymore either! Is there another model I should try? Thanks in advance!
Help me Obiwan, you're my only hope!
Pinging 192.168.200.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.200.1: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=246
Reply from 192.168.200.1: bytes=32 time=148ms TTL=246
Reply from 192.168.200.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=246
Reply from 192.168.200.1: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=246
Ping statistics for 192.168.200.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 148ms, Average = 52ms
I'm at a loss as to what's going on with my 4.2. It's working fine but I think the Raspberry Pi B board is screwed up somehow. This manifested itself when I changed my WiFi at home from a single point router/WiFi to a gateway with multiple access points all sharing the same SSID. I changed the original WiFi router SSID to "obsolete" so that I could still connect to it while I was getting the the new access points up and running. They all have the original SSID and after about a week, most of my devices reconnected to one of the three access points without any issue. I had a couple of Echo Dots that had to be reconfigured but for the most part it was just a transparent cut over.
I didn't think too much about it until I tried to fire up my HeaterMeter 4.2 and it failed to connect. I plugged it in with the network cable and reconfigured the WiFi but it never connected. Now, the thing is completely offline. The Edimax USB isn't blinking blue at all while plugged into the Pi (but it will blink when plugged into a computer USB). When I power it off/on, I get an IP address on the display of 192.168.200.1 and I can ping that from the Windows command line. However, if I go to that same IP with a web page there is nothing. If I do the heatermeter/devices, I also get "No HeaterMeter found at your site".
I found the WiFi config.txt documentation on the github site and manually edited the config.txt file and that didn't help. I even brought it to the office and tried to connect from a different computer and different lan only with the same results. I've reverted that back to the original config.txt before I monkeyed with it to be back in the same spot.
All I can figure since the Edimax isn't blinking is that it's not getting power from the Pi B board and why it isn't connecting to anything. I still don't understand why I can't get logged into it via wired Ethernet though. I can ping it but that's it. I'd just try it with another Pi B but Amazon doesn't seem to have those anymore either! Is there another model I should try? Thanks in advance!
Help me Obiwan, you're my only hope!
Pinging 192.168.200.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.200.1: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=246
Reply from 192.168.200.1: bytes=32 time=148ms TTL=246
Reply from 192.168.200.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=246
Reply from 192.168.200.1: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=246
Ping statistics for 192.168.200.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 148ms, Average = 52ms