Author Topic: HELP with initial firmware  (Read 2332 times)

brohan

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HELP with initial firmware
« on: April 09, 2016, 09:34:22 am »
After getting my Oak car months ago, I finally came across it again, and am trying to get the OAK to work. I followed the instructions on connecting for the 1st time, for over 2 hours to no avail.  At first I couldn't get it to reconnect to my computer's wifi (running Linux 14.04), the device would alternate between ACORN-xxx with a square symbol at the end, to the same # without the square symbol. I have been trying and trying to update, setting my wifi router channel to 3, using a guest login with no password, etc, as found on a post here. Still nothing. When connecting the device, one light stays on, the other blinks, when updating the blinking light will flash quickly for a bit, turn off, the connection goes down, then it blinks once a second again. that is all I can get.

When I connect to it, and go to 192.168.0.1 all I get is: Soft AP Setup, no version #.

After 2 hours of this I am very frustrated. Please someone help, with step by step instructions for what I should do.

FWIW my OAK says Acorn Module v1 and is silver in color, not black like the website shows.

Thank you
« Last Edit: April 09, 2016, 12:19:40 pm by brohan »

brohan

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Re: HELP with initial firmware
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2016, 12:21:46 pm »
I followed the instructions here (http://digistump.com/wiki/oak/tutorials/local_update#local_update_tool) to do the install via 2 local computers. I was able to start up the server on computer one, connect the 2nd computer to it, login, connect the oak, it had appeared to be working better (the quick flashing led lasted longer), after the time out / reboot and relogin, Oak Wifi Config STILL says it failed to download the update from the server.

ANYONE?!?!
« Last Edit: April 09, 2016, 12:53:07 pm by brohan »

brohan

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Re: HELP with initial firmware
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2016, 12:53:52 pm »
Stopping everything with the local update tool, and restarting it 3 times, led to a final successful firmware update.

emardee

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Re: HELP with initial firmware
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2016, 06:17:04 pm »
Sounds like you had a frustrating journey to get it finally working, but now you can start to have some fun with it. What are you planning to use it for?

brohan

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Re: HELP with initial firmware
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2016, 06:57:40 pm »
This (robot kit) was given to my son and I by our same friend who gave us the DigiSpark, both from the Kickstarter. I'll use it mostly for doing something with my 12 year old, while learning more about electronics / programming. He grew tired of the DigiSpark pretty quick.

I'm thinking breadboard for more options?