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IoTaWatt Open WiFi Electric Energy Monitor
https://iotawatt.com
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Update connectWiFi.rst #315

Closed pwnell closed 2 years ago

pwnell commented 2 years ago

Added note about needing to connect AC adaptor before RTC will be initialized. This stumped me for a while.

pwnell commented 2 years ago

Not to beat a dead horse, but I have to disagree with you. I am an electrical engineer and software engineer for 20+ years. To me it was not obvious that the system would need AC to function during setup, even though you rightly mention the steps in the first section. I wanted to initialize the unit away from the site where it would be deployed, so I figured it does not need AC reference as the manual only mentions needing AC for determining AC voltage and phase - nothing about needing it to perform core functionality (without the RTC it is useless).

So for someone thinking at a technical level - that addition to the manual would have been helpful. Or, explain that the AC adapter is needed to initialize the RTC then it will be obvious you need to connect it as well. It would have saved me 2 hours of troubleshooting. I am sure someone else will be in the same boat one day. It is only one sentence. But like I said, it is just a suggestion.