New IotaWatt Unit Problems - Flashing Green LED

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Hey all!

My IotaWatt unit came today in the mail and I was super excited to try it out. I hooked everything up and when I plugged it in I just saw a blinking green LED.

I searched for the “iotawatt” network on my devices so I could connect to it, but I found none. Only an “AI-Thinker” network was being exposed.

Upon connecting to that network, I could not access anything - 192.168.4.1 always results in a “Connection refused” error.

I opened up the unit and took out the SD card to plug it in my computer… it was empty. I was so confused and saw some topics here that indicated it should carry the “SD” directory contents from the GitHub repo. I copied those files over and re-plugged it in with no difference. I still only get a flashing green LED.

I’m out of options on what to try now. Any further help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

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I’ve responded to your email. The unit was not flashed. You can cause it to flash itself by setting up a WiFi hotspot with SSID iotawifi and password IoTaWatt. The network must have internet access. You can do this with your phone.

The process takes less than a minute. You will see a variety of led flashes, mostly RGRG…. Eventually settling down to RGG indicating it is finished and ready to connect to WiFi as per the installation docs.