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(re) configure wifi?

I had no trouble configuring wifi from it's factory-default state (it was brand new) to connect to my home's wifi.

I don't remember why, or what the screen looked like upon accessing 192.168.4.1 , but at that time i did not enter a device access key; my recollection was the form didn't have a place for that info. At the time i assumed it would ask for that info later....

In any event it took the ssid/password just fine and connected to my LAN just fine and i can send RAPI commands and access the web interface to the unit.


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So, i now would like to go back and get the "device access key" into my unit.

If i understand correctly, there's no way other than to prevent the unit from connecting to my wifi, and after a few tries the unit reverts back to something like its default state.


When I do that, I see the OpenEVSE_XXXXXXX just fine. I however couldn't connect to it (with the same win10 laptop i used previously), after trying for a minute or so the laptop reports that it can't connect.

So I reset the unit, and repeated with another laptop, this time macbook, it asked for password (openevse) and said it couldn't connect.

So I reset the unit, and repeated with another laptop, this time a chromebook, it asked for password (openevse) and said it couldn't connect.


When i turn my home's wifi back on, the unit remains happy, and connects up to it just fine.


Is there another procedure for re-configuring the wifi paramters?




You can (and should) configure the rest of the parameters while connected to your home network. In the web interface there should be a Services tab. The fields for energy monitoring are there for server, device key and node.

(sorry if this is a duplicate post, i don't see what i thought i just posted?)

here's a screenshot of my services tab.


I'm not seeing how the fields line up, e.g. i don't see a place to put the device access key?

i do see my write-api key over on emoncms account so i pasted that in there and clicked save, the save button changed to "saved" but it still says "connected No"

The node was prefilled in as openevse, should that be 0?



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ah yes, i see this under services tab: (screenshot inserted, can everyone see that?); 

not sure what is what, though. in my account i do see something called "write api key" which i pasted in there. But then were does "Device access key" go, and in the screenshot below, node was pre-filled in as openevse.... should that be 0 ("zero"; assuming that's what i put in the devices page)?


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The Node should be 0 to match the value on the server.


I would recommend removing the SSL fingerprint until you are up and running. It changes every 90 days.

it must have been the SSL stuff because once i emptied that box and clicked save, I immediately (within seconds) began to see that there were updates on the emoncms (internet) side of things. 

Then within a minute or two, the local side said "Connected: Yes   Successful posts: xx" on the services tab


Thanks for the help.


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