I recently purchased an Iridium 9704 Certus development kit form Iridium which uses Blynk.Console. The process to activate the device on Blynk is supposed to be an easy 3-step process however, the last step does not work for me. The first step is to generate an AuthToken which it does. The second step is it auto-generates code to use that AuthToken on the Iridium 9704 Certus development kit which I copied and uploaded to my unit. (Note: the ‘buttons’ to copy or download the code don’t work, you cannot click them). Once the firmware is uploaded to the unit you let Blynk know and it waits for the device to transmit. I have my unit in a place which it has a great view of the sky and I hear the clicks indicating that the unit has connection with the Iridium network. I confirmed with Iridium themselves that my unit is activated on their network. Any ideas why my device is not being seen by the Blynk network?
Hello @bchiasson
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Please, try activate device again. In second step (Firmware upload), copy code, paste to you IDE and please add:
#define BLYNK_PRINT Serial
in sketch after #define BLYNK_AUTH_TOKEN.
Upload sketch. Open serial monitor, set 9600 baud, restart/reconnect your hardware. After this actions you should see logs in serial monitor.
Please attach these logs in this post.
Well, I was able to activate the device, not sure why it worked this time. In the process of me setting it up so that I could capture a log it worked. I have my computer setup where I was doing every step and uploading the firmware then I would disconnect from my computer and put it outside. I used another computer to try and log since there is no good view of the sky near my main setup. I installed Arduino IDE setup on that computer and connected the serial to it and it just worked this time. I don’t know if having the serial plugged in matters (the start guide says it doesn’t)?
Well, if everything is fine now, then there is no need for logs