Issues setting up Pro-16
I've had a heck of a time trying to get my Pro-16 setup. Very frustrating process.
1) I use 192.168.13.x for my network at home which is the same network that the Rainmachine tries to use when setting up via wifi which causes issues when it is trying to switch back to my network and the gateway is all messed up. Technically they should be able to get it to work but there is a bug in the process. I am not going to re-IP my network just for this one device.
2) Luckily I have a switch in the garage so I had the option to use a wired network. However this was not straight forward either. It did not work until I disabled the AP on the touch screen. Likely due to the conflicting network subnet. Disabling the AP allowed me to go through the setup and things were fine until they weren't....
3) Rebooting or power cycling the the Pro-16 makes it unreachable. I have to go and toggle the disable AP setting on and of again even though it is supposedly already disabled from the touch screen.
4) During setup of WU in the weather section I had a space after the name of my location and the Pro-16 was not smart enough to clean that up (copy paste error but still it should remove invalid characters) and was sending the request with a space after it which causes a bad request error. Spent a while trying to figure out why it was not working. Luckily the clue was in the logs. However not sure how many people would have been that persistent.
5) Occasionally the device gets hung up on a REST request and will eventually timeout and drop off the network (or so it appears as you can't ping it but I'm guessing it is a network reset that is causing routing issues because of the network subnet conflict). First few times this happened to me during setup I resorted to factory reset and disable the AP. Very frustrating. However afterwards I figured I could toggle the AP on and off again and that would get it working again without resorting to a factory reset.
6) SSH instructions need to get updated and they don't work. The port number was 8081 not 8080. The current page asks for your public key file to upload (not pasting to content per the instructions). I got a success to the "post ssh" but I am unable to log in. Inspecting the traffic it does not appear as if it is sending the file. The default root/admin credentials do not work.
7) setting up remote access does not work for me. I keep getting a firewall error. It is not clear what it is attempting to do. I do not block outbound port 8000.
At least I have a program setup an it appears to be puling the info from the WU PWS. We will see how it performs over the next week.
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Ok.. my bad on the ssh... the enable and submitting the key are in completely different sections, they really need to make it clear what input belongs to what post/get link. Enable ssh is in /machine section and uploading the key in /dev section. However I am still not able to upload my key. It replies with the infamous: { "statusCode": 3, "message": "Invalid request !" } and if you look at the response header you see a 401 Unauthorized. At this point I don't really need ssh. Main reason I want to get in is to poke around and fix the routing issue/network config that is not allowing my device to reboot properly.
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Key uploading is only for HD12/16 models. For Pro models the login is with root and rainmachine as password. Make sure you change that password with passwd after logging in. You can create a key after you login with ssh using ssh-keygen.
Looks like remote access and in general network setup has issue, firewall error it's because it can't reach AWS servers. This might be due firewall but in your case probably some routing issues.
If you can't manage to setup it properly, we can try to modify the IP of the AP interface (which, if you have ssh, is editable in /etc/config/network)
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