{"id":190,"date":"2021-07-10T06:04:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T06:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/?p=190"},"modified":"2021-07-10T06:05:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T06:05:44","slug":"ebox-wifi-01-working-on-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/07\/10\/ebox-wifi-01-working-on-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"ebox wifi 01 &#8211; working on iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have had a solar panel and invertor on my bongo for quite some time. I used to use an android app which whilst clunky, did work. Having upgraded to Apple computers\/phone some 2 years ago now, i&#8217;ve never been able to get the app to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With my enthuasium for getting back out in the bongo with my portable amateur radio, i wanted to see if I could get the reporting app working, as this would be useful for power consumption when using the IC-705.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/5355B112-9F7E-467B-B2CC-AB7A869186D0_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"188\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/5355B112-9F7E-467B-B2CC-AB7A869186D0_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/5355b112-9f7e-467b-b2cc-ab7a869186d0_1_105_c\/\" class=\"wp-image-188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/5355B112-9F7E-467B-B2CC-AB7A869186D0_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/5355B112-9F7E-467B-B2CC-AB7A869186D0_1_105_c-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">wifi for inverter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/58BD9AD9-F1B4-4A1A-AB2A-0EC08CCDD830_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"187\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/58BD9AD9-F1B4-4A1A-AB2A-0EC08CCDD830_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/58bd9ad9-f1b4-4a1a-ab2a-0ec08ccdd830_1_105_c\/\" class=\"wp-image-187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/58BD9AD9-F1B4-4A1A-AB2A-0EC08CCDD830_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/58BD9AD9-F1B4-4A1A-AB2A-0EC08CCDD830_1_105_c-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">inverter manual<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">inverter and wifi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who are not familar, the unit I&#8217;m describing is the eBox-WIFI-01 as shown top left. This is going into the MPPT Solar Charge unit ethernet port. There is a blue-tooth version, which is apparently just as flawed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent 15 minutes fiddling around with the iPhone settings and trawling the internet, some recommended disabling &#8216;data&#8217; on the phone, but that didnt work for me either. Here I&#8217;m using an iPhone 11 Pro Max with IOS 14.6, but I&#8217;ve never been previously be able to get this app to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The app is the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/au\/app\/ep-01\/id1330876647\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/au\/app\/ep-01\/id1330876647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EP-01 on the App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"339\" src=\"https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-1024x339.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-1024x339.png 1024w, https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-768x254.png 768w, https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-1536x509.png 1536w, https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-2048x678.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/au\/app\/ep-01\/id1330876647<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It has lots of negative reviews for it not working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the steps I took to make it work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ensure the app is closed on your phone (if its open, swish it up to close it)<\/li><li>Go into Airplane mode to disable (seemingly) all forms of data<\/li><li>From Privacy turn Location Services OFF <\/li><li>Turn on wifi *only* do not connect to any found wifi networks<\/li><li>Open the app, select Wifi, then the wifi network, in this case &#8216;ebox-&lt;random string&gt;<\/li><li>Enjoy the data in the app !<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_5816-473x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\" width=\"474\" height=\"1026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_5816-473x1024.jpeg 473w, https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_5816-139x300.jpeg 139w, https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_5816-768x1662.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_5816-710x1536.jpeg 710w, https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_5816-946x2048.jpeg 946w, https:\/\/bongo.knipmeyer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_5816-scaled.jpeg 1183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption>Fist time of seeing this in IOS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first time I seen this app working in IOS, and subsquently the first time I had seen the values in over 2 years. I was quite impressed with the amount of total energy my little 100W solar panel had generated in the years it had been on the top of my Bongo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst fiddly, at least I now had access to the data and &#8216;load&#8217; section for when I setup the IC-705 via the Bongo power supply. Wether it will suffer electrical man-made radio interference (RFI\/QRM) has yet to be seen, and you&#8217;ll find more about that on my hamradio site \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a solar panel and invertor on my bongo for quite some time. 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