My 2 Heltec boards arrived today and after taking the dog for it’s afternoon walk I sat down to see if I could get one working.
I couldn’t at first get the board to appear in the Windows device manager. After installing several different drivers without success I picked the board up at one point and I suddenly heard the characteristic “ping” Windows makes when you connect something to it. Momentarily the board appeared in device manager then disappeared. Changing the USB lead solved the problem and I was then able to connect to it from the firmware flashing Web page.
Once the firmware was loaded the board rebooted and started to generate the WiFi signal. Logging into this I opened up the configuration page and started to set things up.
It took me a few attempts as I was guessing at times what I should set things to. What I did discover was if after setting say the frequency if I then looked at another tab in the browser then returned to the configuration page all my changes had vanished.
The current position is the igate is appearing on the aprs map.
But it isn’t receiving anything from the tracker Richard G3CWI built for me.
I’ll go through the configuration page again tomorrow and do a bit of trial and error if necessary but any suggestion or even screenshots of recommended configuration settings would be very welcome. For example, part of the configuration page covers beacons. Is the igate a beacon?
When I click on other gates on the map the window shows the frequency it is operating on.
But mine isn’t. 