I am not surprised this doesn't work. They should allow a manual entry of WiFi settings.
Out of curiosity, why is your SSID hidden? You do know that has zero security benefit right. It's trivial to get SSID even when not broadcast. So if you are doing it for security, just switch back to broadcast and make a more secure password.
@emil said in Why must our phone configure the the hub using Bluetooth?:
Do you see any problems using Bluetooth?
Yes, I can't work on my hub when no home. If you used WiFi I could connect to my VPN and work on the hub.
I also can't open the app to show people how to set things up. When away from home the app is useless.
I also can't use the app to use a virtual button or to just issue "Execute" for a physical button configuration.
All of these things would be nice but instead I find other ways since your app can't do any of it. For that reason Flic is a very small part of my home automation and I would switch to an alternative "Button" in a second if it had better features and wasn't so buggy.
Don't get me wrong, I like my flic hub. I just suspect if it doesn't start fixing issues that existed since the beta program it will fail and my investment will be trash. I have 11 buttons and two hubs. That is quite a chunk of change ridding on this software getting better.
No HTTP has been broken since the early beta. I reported the issue very early on but they just never worked with me to fix it.
For example this curl command works fine on the command line.
curl -X POST -H "x-ha-access: secure_password" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"entity_id": "switch.room_light"}' \
http://192.168.1.90:8123/api/services/switch/toggle
However using flic POST with
content type:
application/json
header variable:
x-ha-access: secure_password
body:
{"entity_id": "switch.room_light"}
URL:
http://192.168.1.90:8123/api/services/switch/toggle
Does not work! If it works in curl it should work in flic.
The lack of logs or any other feedback has been a flic hub complaint of mine since the beta program. The issue may be POST not getting set, headers not getting set, Perhaps the backend code is stripping the quotes from the json, who knows. We get no error, it just ignores our request. So how can we debug!!!!
I can tell you that a simple GET works. I wrote a simple middle man server in Node for my SmartThings hub because the SmartThings API is complicated so I thought that was part of the problem. So I have local server which accepts simple get requests and issues the more complex POST requests to SmartThings. It works perfect with Flic hub, when the buttons are responding.
Now that I am moving over to HA and they have such a simple API I expected it to work. But nope...
The indiegogo campaign promised developer level access to the hub but I can't even get user level access to the logs or anything else on the hub.
My hubs work about 80% of the time. When they don't work I have to guess why.
I created bug reports on this during the beta program and was never contacted. I posted the issue to the facebook ambassadors campaign. No fix.
So I figure I might as well try here too. Don't expect much.
OK now I have to go off and write a middle man simple GET request server for HA so I can get my devices working with Flic Again.....How annoying!