I´ve been running my farmbot for a few months now (at home) with no connectivity problems. A couple of days ago I had a problem with my internet, and had my modem and home password changed. Now everything at home has perfect connectivity once again, except for my farmbot, which basically can´t find the wifi signal: I cannot find the network named farbot-xxx.
I know that I have to modify something in my farmbot configuration but I just can´t figure out what that is (I know I did this at some point but I just can´t find the solution in your “help” section). I haven´t touched or modified ANYTHING in my farmbot configuration yet (for fear of loosing sequences etc). I believe the solution is quite straightforward so I decided to ask here first rather than do a take and making things worse.
@Cristian If you have changed your WiFi password, you will need to power down and perform a hard reset (remove the SD card and re-flash the FBOS image). Your sequences, farm events, etc… will be stored on the server so there is no risk of data loss.
Have you tried a hard reset yet? If so, are you certain that you flashed the correct model to the SD card? If you accidentally run the wrong model of FBOS (ex: running Genesis FBOS on an Express device) you will not see the farmbot-xyz SSID appear.
Thanks Rick I didn´t expect I would need a hard reset at this point. So I will try that and let you know if it works. I will be careful not to run a wrong model. Regards!
@Cristian Yes unfortunately that is the case. Unlike sequences, images, etc… the WiFi password is not stored on any server so it can only be written at the time of setup. Any time the WiFi router password changes, a hard re-flash is required.
Hi Rick so I am trying to re-flash the card but when I select Flash-from-file option in the BalenaEscher, the following step “select Target” tells me that the selected source is larger than the drive (“too small”). See image
@Cristian Formatting the drive will not help, as the process of burning an image to an SD card performs a “raw write” which will destroy all pre-existing partitions on the card.
Have you tried flashing the image to a different SD card? SD cards unfortunately do not last as long as other types of storage media. Since we have not received this type of error report before, I would guess that the problem is with the drive or host machine rather than with the FBOS image itself.
