Updating Firmware Stopped Dafang Connecting to WiFi

[mynameisdaniel32]

I just had a go at updating my firmware (was previously using one from about a month ago) and now the camera won't connect to WiFi at all. When powering up I get a solid orange LED for about 5 seconds, a half second blink of the blue LED, then it goes back to the orange LED.

I have tried reflashing the CFW without change. I formatted the entire SD card and put a fresh copy of the firmware files onto it (and recreated the wpa_supplicant.conf file) without improvement.

Any ideas?

[jmtatsch]

Maybe your motors are stuck. Try commenting out hcalibrate & vcalibrate in run.sh

[jmtatsch]

And please rename you issue, it is highly misleading.

[jmtatsch]

Probably related to #287

[mynameisdaniel32]

Changed the title. I don't think it's related as my camera won't even connect to WiFi for me to ping/telnet to it.

I also spent some time reverting the firmware to what was on there previously, as well as an older build from here, both now have the same issue so something isn't happy. Will try stripping down run.sh to see what happens (motors were working fine when I reflashed the cfw though).

[mynameisdaniel32]

I've worked this out and resolved the problem. Turns out when I updated the firmware using the GitHub Desktop software to clone the repo, it does something strange to the files and they cause corruption when read by the camera. Downloading the zip and using the files from that was my only change to fix it.

I only just found this from a comment somewhere deep in another issue, so I'm leaving this open for now as it's probably worthwhile adding a warning to the installation instructions? Or even better investigating the cause of this and fixing it.

[Dopeyr]

Perhaps a .gitattributes file in the repo would resolve this? I haven't looked into it in any depth but https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/#per-repository-settings suggests .gitattributes could control the line endings?

[atus]

@mynameisdaniel32 it's the line endings in windows vs linux. The camera can't digest \r\n. That's why the install instructions say download instead of clone repo.

[jmtatsch]

Fixed via pr #309

[sajeevfive]

I have the same problem but I did firmware update through Mobile app when it was recommending.

Can someone provide the steps to solve this issue as I'm a newbie.

Thanks in advance, sajeev