Feather ESP8266 Not In "My Devices"

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Feather ESP8266 Not In "My Devices"

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I have installed appropriate drivers and I can even test my wifi by pushing code to the board, but when I try to register the board with WipperSnapper the result is inconclusive.

I can detect and install the firmware onto the device
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This will hang here for hours if I let it, but I think it's expecting an input or reset. so, I reset the board with the button
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The light then goes dim ret, I reset the board again and click the link to my WipperSnapper page on Adafruit IO and there is nothing new there.

Can anyone please help me figure out what I am doing wrong?

edit: I am stupid, I now see there are other posts addressing this exact issue. I might just have to buy a different microcontroller like the HUZZAH ESP8266 Breakout board, but I am wondering if this will have the same issue. I am totally new to hardware (I am a software guy) and I don't even see that microcontroller on the "Choose Your Board" page, so I am feeling kind of lost but these are the two boards my tutorial mentions

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Re: Feather ESP8266 Not In "My Devices"

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There is an issue open for this exact problem here: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Wi ... issues/404

I may be able to get to replicating and resolving it this week and will update these threads when ready.

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Watching.
I am having this issue with mine as well. Is there a work around others have found? Maybe going back to an earlier version?
Thanks

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Hi, we were able to reproduce this error and found the bug. I just updated the uploader to use the correct file system size and have tested the fix locally on my Feather ESP8266. This bug should be gone.

Please let me know on this thread if you are still experiencing the same problem.

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I am still experiencing an issue.

This time it will hang on "Unzipping wippersnapper.feather_esp8266.littlefs.1.0.0-beta.61.bin..." and downloads a wippersnapper.bin file.

no further instructions involving the bin file in the console or https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-fea ... pper-setup.

If I reset the board it is an exact duplication of my first issue

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Hi, on step 3, click Connect instead of Generate Binary File.
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Hello

I meant after I connect, it looks like install happens but then I hang at this screen. Not sure if this means it's complete but the board still does not show up in my devices at this point. I can reset the board and after I reset I get the message "To run the new firmware, please reset your device." I can continue resetting the board and nothing further happens in the console or my devices page
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Are you able to connect to your board using https://www.serialterminal.com? Could you copy and paste the debug output from that site, here?

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I was having the same problem. Tried using serialterminal.com to diagnose but it just showed garbage. Then I tried ESPHome Web and the console there finally showed the cause: my board was repeatedly reporting "Unable to connect to Adafruit IO MQTT...". Turns out my username was wrong.

I was using my Adafruit account username instead of my Adafruit IO username. They're different. Be sure you're using the username you see when you look at your IO Key.

I re-flashed my Feather ESP8266 with the correct username (just used the update credentials option), and my board shows up in "My Devices" now.

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