I downgraded a few T-Beams to 1.0.0, and now I have lots of markers on the map, so it was the firmware, and not the app that was loosing markers. Maybe it was forgetting to keep track of other devices locations and forward them to the phone over bluetooth.
I’ve found that when my device is plugged in to USB power(power brick) I can successfully update to 1.1.6 over bluetooth.
I have not been able to successfully update when power off of an 18650 in the battery holder(t-beam) or a 1S lipo plugged into the lipo plug on a heltec(I think heltecs may not be supported by this beta android app though).
Perhaps something in the device sleep behavior is causing the issue? I also find it interesting that when I was running a device off of an 18650 in the battery holder and periodically pushing the middle button on the device during the bluetooth update, it still failed. I tried this thinking that button pushes might prevent a sleep issue.
Anybody else only able to BLE update when the device is powered through the USB port?
Push the user button on your device to see the network status screen. If you see an IP, you’re connected to your wireless network.
The full url should be : http://meshtastic.local
You could try nmapping your entire network for port 80, there can’t be that many services running. Or look in the router’s dhcp list and Ctrl + F for the mac address.
IIUC meshtastic.local would need your router’s dhcp server to have register hostnames enabled.
meshtastic.local uses mDNS. No relationship with DHCP.
It doesn’t work on routers that block multicast and older version of windows, but it’s generally well supported.
It also has problems on enterprise network gear unless mDNS reflectors are specifically turned on.
Huh, so more avahi? I’m not sure if I enabled that.
Pointing to the IP address works too 
Yep, that’s why I suggested Ctrl + F the dhcp lease list. Or what I usually do is just look in the dhcp log right after powering it on.
I skipped adding the display to save power. I’m probably going to switch to a gps-less model to make a keychain-sized one I can hang on my bookbag 
That’s really cool! Please share a picture when you’ve got it assembled.
When the device is booting it will display version for a short while. New in 1.1.6 it will also display region.
Just push the reset button and it will tell you.
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I tried both ways, and was able to update two T-beams with usb power (and a battery), and the two others only on batteries.
So in my case it works fine both ways.
Oops. I guess 1.1.6 still has done problems 
. Thanks everyone for the feedback. I’ll try to repro tomorrow.
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Hi thanks for new version - great to see all the new info appearing on the screens. Using android app.1.1.6 on a Huawei MediaPad (running 7.0) I tried 1.1.6 on several tbeams (both 6M and M8N). I continue to see this behaviour where the device gains and then loses a gps fix. Is this due to some sleep function? The tbeams pair well without a need to re-run a BT connection. Now I also see a battery drain that I think was there in 1.1.5 - I have the impression my devices do not completely switch off and they still retain texts sent in from previous updates. These are not thoroughly checked out ideas so maybe not completely accurate!
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devices should try to maintain text messages from previous updates. battery drain should be quite low ever since 1.1.5.
Thanks everyone for the 1.1.6 feedback - I don’t think any new tests are needed right now. I’ll work through what ya’ll found and fix things for 1.1.7 but it probably won’t be until tomorrow or the next day before new builds are out.
Sorry about the bustage in 1.1.6. If necessary you can go back to 1.1.5 
I noticed the same thing. I went back to 1.0.0. It gets more GPS fixes, but it occasionally gets one that could be 100km off when indoors. 1.1.0 supposedly fixed those bad coordinates, but possibly also made it reject too many coordinates. Then the sleeps in the later versions, and maybe a longer GPS transmit time interval preferences setting might have made it worse. I’m tempted to branch 1.0.0 and add in 1.1.0’s transmit power fix, then add in the GPS confidence circle and GPS acquisition time stamps, then take the latest app, and add in the GPS confidence circles and GPS acquisition time stamps to it. I found out during social isolation and working from home, that my side projects pop into my head at the wrong time and steal my concentration away from my actual job, so I’ve held off from editing the source code so far, as tempting as it may be.
Hi ya’ll,
Sorry I picked a bad time to disappear for a couple of days. Thanks for the report. The 1.1.6 firmware update from android is busted - it discards your region info. I’m fixing now.
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