Meteobride lost connection and won't reconnect **solved**

[Ladd]

TP Link MR3040 (with internal battery)

Problem: lost connection with home wireless network, can't get it to reconnect. Any help offered would be much appreciated.


Recovery procedures applied:

Tried to reboot from within Meteobridge, but no connection to Meteobridge.

Other procedures tried, but ALWAYS end up with top light (Internet) flashing rapidly basically forever.

Used paper clip and pushed MR3040 reset button until top light (Internet) blinks once. Top light rapid flash forever.

Removed wall power and battery for 10 seconds reconnected battery. Top light rapid flash forever.

Used paper clip and pushed MR3040 reset button until top light (Internet) blinks once. Top light rapid flash forever.

Removed battery for five minutes. Reinserted battery. Top light rapid flash forever.

Used paper clip and pushed MR3040 reset button until top light (Internet) blinks once. Top light rapid flash forever.

Powered down wireless router (Apple Time Capsule) and restarted. Other wireless clients could connect before and again after bringing router back up.

Repeated above listed resets on MR3040. Top light rapid flash forever.

I have tried the above with and without the data logging cable inserted into the MR3040 USB port. I have put a USB flash drive in the port and either nothing is recorded to the flash drive upon MR3040 restart or a partial entry is:
Tue Jan 20 16:28:11 UTC 2015
MAC: (MAC address deleted)
LAN IP: CAST
WLAN IP: CAST

Note that here in the U.S., it is currently Friday, Jan 23. the MR3040 says it is Tuesday, Jan 20. I have no idea what "CAST" means for LAN IP and WLAN IP


I have additionally tried all of the above procedures after pushing the reset button on the MR3040 waiting until the LED flashes the second time. No luck there either. Theoretically five flashes means the meteobridge is wiped back to factory defaults and would prefer not to do that.

[admin]

After setting the unit back to default LAN operation (1 blink reset) you
need to connect the unit with an ethernet cable to your router.
When WiFi is misconfigured, going back to LAN operation is the only way.

[Ladd]

Yup, connecting the MR3040 directly to the router via Ethernet cable worked to get be back up again.

I had been running most of my reset procedures with the Meteobridge connected via Ethernet to a laptop that was wirelessly connected to the router (as I recall doing when setting up the Meteobridge), but that didn't seem to work this time.

[admin]

sorry, after doing the one blink reset it is in the same state as initially.
So there must be some changes/problems in your LAN DHCP environment...
cable... router port... or "one blink reset" was not done correctly.

Please do one blink reset again, it really works

When LED goes to steady green after fast blink, you are back online with the unit.
Then you only have to find out the IP...

[Ladd]

I have the router set up to serve a fixed IP address to the Meteobridge, so once the unit was connected directly to the router via Ethernet and reset, it came right up and with the correct IP address also. Thanks for your suggestion to connect it directly to the router. Only took five minutes to fix; just took me six hours to get there.