When I get to the step Sign In and Connect Your Glowforge to Wi-Fi. I just run into and endless circle of clinking the same link and going to the same pages over and over again. I’ve gone to community.glowforge.com and signed in clicked on the setup link(again) I connected to the glowforge and nothing happened. I pushed the teal button (probably a dumb idea, but nothing else was happening) and nothing happened and now the button isn’t glowing anymore.
“Follow the instructions on screen to connect to your Glowforge unit’s Wi-Fi. You will not be able to access the internet again until you either finish, or stop and reconnect to your usual Wi-Fi network.”
What on “screen instructions” are you talking about? Is something supposed to pop up or just read along and hope something happens? I connected to the glowforge via it’s wifi and then nothing happens. And now the glowforge doesn’t even show up in my connections for wifi.
WTF? Easy setup my ass. What do I do now? Turn it off and try to start the endless cycle of instructions and hope it works?
I’m not sure because I don’t have it in front of me any more, but there is a step where you have to click Continuebefore you switch to the GF network, and it doesn’t say to do that anywhere, so it’s confusing.
OMG!! Talk about being a little slow(me, mentally that is) I guess this was my bad and connected to the glowforge first before pressing the continue button.
I went through tons of frustration and forum searching for what might be the same problem. There is a missing step in the setup instructions.
I was following setup.glowforge.com on my PC. I got to the part where I put my phone in airplane mode and connect to my GF WiFi. I saw it listed and connected, but no setup instructions on my phone appeared.
Then I saw that someone was connecting to app.glowforge.com/setup. I did that on my PC. No luck.
I then disconnected my phone from GF WiFi. Connected to my home network. Went to app.glowforge.com/setup. Then it magically said it found my GF and told it to broadcast WiFi. I again switched to GF WiFi and now setup proceeded properly.
I’m guessing that the expectation is that one is running through setup.glowforge.com on the same device as will later connect to GF WiFi. Where does it say that in the instructions?
You are not the only one who has found it frustrating to follow the directions or even find the directions. Because the instructions are included as part of the procedure to setup the machine, if something goes wrong, the sequence gets lost.
Having two devices is good or printing the manual section with setup instructions is also good. I use a mobile device to do the ad hoc connection handoff and keep my desktop on app.glowforge.com waiting for the Glowforge to appear.
My desktop was still on setup.glowforge.com where it told me to connect to my GF wifi. I don’t recall being told in that flow to go to App.glowforge.com. Maybe I missed it. I’m thinking that the device on app.glowforge has to be the one that then connects to GF wifi to setup your home wifi credentials.
My insert said “setup.glowforge.com”. I think that the issue is that the device connected to setup.glowforge.com should be the same device that will connect to the GF wifi to setup home network credentials.
I used my iphone to connect to GF wifi while my PC was connected to setup. I thought this would help because I could follow instructions on the PC while my phone was disconnected from the Internet.
A simple note about this would’ve saved me a lot of time.
I’m thinking that the device on app.glowforge has to be the one that then connects to GF wifi to setup your home wifi credentials.