Things that troubled me.

hey folks,
Just an update to perhaps help those who are struggling.
I first got into this, long before there was a lot of support and I kept beating my head against things…
First off, Kudos to the guys who support this hobby…

As a first thing I did after I got everything working, 9 months ago, I sent the command to update,…
From that point on, I could not see local page , but the FA page was seeing my device check in…

Things I found wrong.
Using a weaker power supply would allow the RPI to boot and support the dongle, for awhile, but things I noticed… it would DIM… that dimming clued me into it being low on power and perhaps unstable…
This also allowed the Eth0 to drop out altogether… due to lower power.

solution was to find a higher output adapter… this fixed most of my issues…

another thing I found wrong… my password on the device was different than the password of the FA page… this allowed the page to see my device but not accept updates from me…

solution… referenced the howto and used the command to change the account password…

another thing, that is more common than I can admit, is the more abundant RSMA and Reverse polarity connections available for wifi… do not fall for these… these do not work… .lol

Hope this gives you some hope and things to check…