Here is the problem ive found myself in: I delivered a sculpture to a gallery location with two internal, synced and updated pixelblazes. Unfortunately this scultpture cane together in such a way that I cannot extract the controllers.
Not remembering I needed to set the controllers back to AP from client in order to access them outside of my home wifi network, i delivered and the symc failed upon installation.
I am assuming this is because i did not set the follower controller to client and connect to the leaders AP.
My question is: if i simply plugged in my home wifi router (the router they are connected to in client mode) at the galleries modem, would i be able to connect to the controllers? Or do i need to bring the sculpture back home in order to connect?
Yes that would work. Alternatively set another router up with the same WiFi name and passphrase. Many phone hotspots can also be configured with a custom name/pass, so you could recover them without a router that way.
Thanks for the response! Luckily i have a spare PB to test this with. I set up my phone hotspot with the same name and passphrase. My laptop autoconnected to the hotspot as expected but the pb doscovery website does not pick it up using my laptop connected to the hotspot.
Its giving a 2.4GHz band signal. Confirmed the discovery works through my wifi router before trying this.
Any ideas why it might not be working? Something to do with the mac address saved under the client network in the pb interface?
If the network name, passphrase are the same, and it’s 2.4GHz, the PB should connect to it. If the two start syncing then you know at least that part is working. Did you try power cycling the PB with the network up? The PBs only check in with the discovery service on boot, then once an hour, so power cycling them would make them try to ping the discovery service as soon as they are connected.
Some phones might do shenanigans to hide public IP addresses for privacy reasons. There may be a related security setting.
With discovery service unavailable, you may also be able to discover it locally with some network scan apps on your phone.