I erased the /www folder completely, then extracted the zip file from the edge release (DuetWebControl-1.15c.zip) into the newly created /www folder. There are 3 .gz files that get put into the /www folder as well as an HTML404.htm file. 3 folders get created inside the /www folder css, fonts, and js, all of which also contain .gz files. Am I supposed to extract all the .gz files too?

The wiki just says extract the zip into the /www folder or rename the archive to DWC.zip to upload, but since I can't get to the page to upload, I obviously need to go the windows explorer/card reader route.

Hi Tony,
Yes, I did unzip the contents of the web control file into an erased www folder on the SD card and the duet is connecting to my network.

Here is what I see when connecting via Simplify3d:
READ: RepRapFirmware for Duet WiFi Version 1.19alpha3 dated 2017-05-09
READ:
READ: Executing config.g…
READ: Done!
READ: RepRapFirmware for Duet WiFi is up and running.
READ: WiFi module started
READ: Wifi module is connected to access point SERV, IP address 192.168.2.30
READ: Webserver: rejecting message with: not found

I think I followed the instructions properly as I see it connecting, grabbing the reserved IP address I put in my router, and I can ping it from basically anything. Just can't get the DWC to come up.

David,
Thanks for the heads up on the upcoming update, I'll just wait for your new version to come out and try that, I feel like downgrading and re-upgrading will be a hassle with the new procedures to load 1.19

Hi Burtoogle,
I never have any successes with DNS in general and try to avoid it as much as possible for anything I use internally on my network. I currently have a DHCP reservation in my router for the Wifi and only connect with the IP address. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Hi Elmoret,
Previous firmware revs still only left 1 machine on my network able to connect and unfortunately that machine is not the machine that has all of my modelling/printing software installed on it. I posted in the forum a few months ago regarding the issue because trying to connect with any machine that would be actually useful to me was causing the wifiserver to reboot with a watchdog error. At that point, DC42 mentioned that sometimes on certain infrastructure routers this issue would arise and that he would be soon working on rewriting the wifiserver software to hopefully resolve it. This version of the firmware runs the new wifiserver code however the only things that have changed are that the DWC is less reliable on the only machine that I was able to connect with previously and I get a different error message when it fails, though I think the new error implies there's something up with the DWC page vs the wifiserver.

No offense implied, but I'm starting to get frustrated after waiting months with a basically non operational printer because I decided to "Upgrade" my 0.8.5 to a wifi.

The wifi connects to my network, is pingable from all devices on my network, but will not allow DWC to load from any computer except for one (which doesn't work after the newest firmware) which is located in a room away from the printer which is making commissioning the printer almost impossible.

I used to be able to at least VNC into the 1 computer I have that would connect and get to the DWC to make adjustments to configs as needed or load a file to print, but now I get AJAX errors within 30 seconds and then cannot load DWC until I reboot the printer. All I see in the console is "Webserver: rejecting message with: not found" when it happens. This is a completely fresh install of the firmware downloaded 15 minutes ago.

My 0.8.5 just worked, sure it was a little louder, but, I'd take a working noisy printer over a ~$1500 paperweight any day. I'd try the Duet Ethernet, but, I just can't justify throwing even more money at this when I wholeheartedly expect that the same thing will happen as I don't think it's my network blocking things from connecting because of the reliable pings.

Please, if anybody can give me suggestions to get at least 1 thing printed successfully this year, I would be much appreciative.

Hi David,

I'm most definitely not on a corporate network. Just for FYI in case it helps, I changed the MAC address in the config.g thinking maybe my router was holding on to something from the old 0.8.5 hardware, updated router firmware, and deleted the reservation that I added. Nothing is helping, but, I figured you should know.

Thank you.

Hi,

I'm having an issue connecting to my new Wifi which has been upgraded from a 0.8.5. Chrome connections seem to reboot the Wifiserver with the explanation being either Exception or Watchdog. This computer was the exclusive computer used when the printer was set up with the 0.8.5 and never experienced this issue. I can ping the Wifi from this computer and can pull up the server from an iPad with Safari and from another computer with Edge. I have tried edge to see if this is specifically wrong with my install of Chrome and it doesn't load up either.