HELP - Bricked HC-L network

[TimJWatts 4]

Hi Folks,

 

Reorganising my network (new IP block) and I set the new IP in the Fibaro config screen and rebooted.

 

Now something bad has happened as it does not respond on either the new or old address (I set it static).

 

Currently I have it jacked into the back of my laptop trying to get recovery mode running but it refuses.

 

I have 192.168.1.10/16 set on my laptop's ethernet adaptor. I have a local DHCP server running just in case.

 

And I have tried:

 

1 Press + and touch POWER then release + on the HC-L

2 Press and hold + whilst removing power, readding power and keeping the + pressed for ages

3 Let it boot normally and then press and hold + for a while.

 

All with tcpdump running on my laptop.

 

Every time, zero packets come out of the fibaro as it reboots.

 

Except for 3 above, when as I hold the + button, it seems to emit some multicast DNS packets on port 5353 using the address 192.168.81.1

 

But it never pings on that address and it never lets me connect to a web interface.

 

 

HOW do I get this thing into recovery? It seems that there's no real documentation, but I found some french sellers who documented it:

 

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[TimJWatts 4]

OK - don;t know what happened, but tried again and got recovery...

 

Now, I suspect I'm going to have to reset this, but it would be nice to be able to fix the network without a full clear out

[TimJWatts 4]

Well allejuya! I just rebooted it and with a bit of poking it has come up on 192.168.81.1 with settings intact.

[TimJWatts 4]

It seems the "right way" is to just hold the + button in while it's running and that switches it to 192.168.81.1

 

OK - got it all back now and running on DHCP on th new network.

 

Think this could do with some documentation by Fibaro...