We received our microscope recently. We connected it to a USB and flashed the firmware as instructed, but we do not see any Wi-Fi hotspot created by the microscope.
Hey @Mohan88, thanks for reaching out! May I kindly ask you which firmware you flashedon the device? I think we should place a bit sign somewhere that the device works “out-of-the-box” already. It would create a default hotspot already.
Also, we experienced that - unfortunately - some of the devices sent by Seeed Studio have (still) poor wifi connectivity. This is a known quality issue from the xiao esp32s3 MCUs.
There is a trick: Try folding the antenna like so: openUC2 Xiao AI Microscope Troubleshooting ) | openUC2 Documentation
Let me know if this helps
For the firmware I would recommend this:
Folding the antenna didn’t help with the WiFi hotspot activation.
We next followed the steps on troubleshooting
Attempt 1
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We used the Serial Flasher utility
and erased the chip. -
However, we saw that the device has problems in connecting
The highlighted serial port, keeps blinking. -
We selected the port and tried to install the default firmware for Xiao.
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And then we encounter this error.
Attempt 2
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We used the Serial Flasher utility but did not erase the chip. After the chip was detected, we just disconnected the software and the cable.
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Then we reconnected the cable and this time the connection was stable.
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Next, we installed the Serial Camera Interface for XIAO Sense.
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And the installation was successful!
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However, we go back to our initial problem where we do not see a WiFi hotspot and also cannot see a live Visualizing Stream.
