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Files for the KAUF RGBWW Smart Bulbs
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Bulb firmware fails unless paired to a network #15

Open jonofmac opened 2 years ago

jonofmac commented 2 years ago

Hello, This is building onto my other issue (not being able to connect to an SSID that's not broadcasted), so I figured since the firmware was out of date, I'd update it first and then see if it would connect.

Turns out trying to flash 1.85 onto these bulbs out of the box (connected to their own hotspot) fails. It acts like it uploads, and then chrome states the connection was reset by the bulb.

Once I pair the bulb to a wifi network, then attempting to flash the newer firmware appears to work. Very interesting!

KaufHA commented 2 years ago

Sorry about this. One other person told me the same thing, but when I've tried it has always worked. I'll take another look.

jonofmac commented 2 years ago

I've got 8 more bulbs to setup. Anything you can think of that might help debug it for you specifically outside of my environment?

Computer: M1 Macbook pro Browser: Chrome (latest version 103) Trying to flash: kauf-bulb-v1.85-update.bin

rake8288 commented 1 year ago

I am also seeing this occur with my bulbs.

I'd be more than happy to provide any details needed to investigate.

bkaufx commented 1 year ago

Interesting. Are you able to update via the web interface once connected to wifi, but not via the wifi ap the bulb puts out? I could potentially send a firmware with debug code to try to figure out the problem.

jonofmac commented 1 year ago

Yes. That is the process I had to do: I initially try to update firmware to latest with out of box bulbs. It doesn't work. 1) Pair to WiFi 2) Update using web interface

Update works.