WaterMate : Control system

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Need to change wifi

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shreopshirehobbit
05 May, 12:49
Hi over past couple of weekends I have been trying to get system to wake up after winter. Turned it on and let it get a good few days of sun. It makes all the right noises and I get it to water zone 1 and 2 with the overide button. However I have changed wifi over winter. I cannot seem to connect to the boxes webpage in online mode to swap it over to the new wifi. I can see it's wifi signal and connect but the default page is blank. Attempts with chrome and safari browsers, on phone, laptop and ipad. 192.168.4.1 is always a blank page. Any suggestions?

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shreopshirehobbit
05 May, 20:12
Just to add the morning and evening watering schedule from last year is working - I just can't change anything.

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Chris
ADMIN
06 May, 10:20
Hi there, we've identified some boxes which have a corrupt dashboard - it can be fixed by POSTing data to the device to set the wifi network + password, and when it's online we can update the firmware. Would you be comfortable installing an app such as Postman and doing some direct data to the box? If not, we can do it here for you if you send the box to us.

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shreopshirehobbit
06 May, 20:52
Yes I can do that. I already have postman installed ... or I can do direct via curl. I may or may not be an it nerd : )

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Chris
ADMIN
07 May, 12:18
Perfect. POST to 192.168.4.1/saveWifi
with body hNet for the SSID and hPass for your password.
That will save the wifi settings into the box. It should then reboot, connect and update to firmware 2025042900

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shreopshirehobbit
07 May, 13:18
just be clear ... I am going to do
curl -X POST -d "hNet=SSID&hPass=PASSWORD" http://192.168.4.1/saveWifi

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Chris
ADMIN
07 May, 14:13
I use POSTman with the params form-data encoded in the body

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shreopshirehobbit
07 May, 17:40
HI there - tried with curl and errored so went to postman. still no dice. The device gives multiple beeps after I send but is eventually throwing back this parse error
POST http://192.168.4.1/saveWifi
Error: Parse Error: Invalid character in chunk size

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Chris
ADMIN
07 May, 17:42
Hi, I've sent you screen shots from my Postman setup by email

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shreopshirehobbit
07 May, 17:53
would help if I used the right password LOL. All good we are back on line!!


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