Wi-Fi

How the display joins your network, and what to do when it cannot.

Two ways in

While it has no network of yours, or cannot reach it, the display serves a network called glimly_setup and its settings page at http://glimly.local (or http://10.20.20.10 if that name does not open). Once it has joined your network it serves the same page there, at the same name.

The page only runs while the display is plugged in. On battery it wakes only to refresh the panel and goes straight back to sleep, so there is nothing to answer; plug it in and the page is usually back within a minute, at most a minute and a half, and the panel shows its address for the first ten minutes.

What it needs

A 2.4 GHz network, either open or protected with a WPA or WPA2 password; WEP is not supported. Networks that need a login page (hotels, some guest networks) cannot be joined, because there is nobody to click through it.

The setup page lists the networks the display can hear, strongest first, and only 2.4 GHz ones - a 5 GHz-only network never appears, because the display cannot join it. The refresh symbol beside the list looks again; that takes the display’s own network off the air for a few seconds, so if your phone drifts back to another network meanwhile, rejoin glimly_setup.

If it will not join

The panel says when it has tried and failed (“Wi-Fi didn’t connect” during setup, “Can’t join your Wi-Fi” afterwards). Plug the display in and:

  1. Join glimly_setup again; it comes back whenever the saved network is unreachable, so you can correct the password.
  2. Pick your network from the list rather than typing it. If you had to type it, check it is exactly right, capitals included.
  3. If your router offers one name for both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, that is fine; a separate 5 GHz-only name will not be in the list, so use the 2.4 GHz one.

If the display is not offering its own network either, the cable page reaches the same settings over USB, and shows what the device is saying while it tries.

A settings password

The settings page can be locked with a password of your choosing, so a guest on your Wi-Fi cannot change the display. The page offers one the first time you save your settings; you can also set it later from the Device tab. If you forget it, the cable page can clear it and keeps every other setting: holding the cable is the proof the password exists to ask for.