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N7JWW
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MeshChat stopped working
Hi everyone!

I fired up a new TP-LINK CPE210. I installed MeshChat 1.02. MeshChat was running--I even chatted with another person on our mesh network. I was testing my CPE in different locations which involved lots of reboots. I noticed MeshChat was no longer running. Went to the Port Forwarding, DHCP, and Services setup, no sign of MeshChat. Decided to try to reinstall it. I got this message when I did: "Package meshchat (1.02) installed in root is up to date. Failed to restart all services, please reboot this node." I've rebooted a jillion times, no change. I've Googled the interwebs and was unable to find any good troubleshooting resources. Searched the forums here and didn't get any good hits. Does anyone have any suggestions that might help be figure out why MeshChat decided to conk out and what I can do to resurrect it?

Thanks so much,
Jon aka N7JWW
nc8q
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MeshChat: try to reinstall it
Hi, Jon:

 Try 'Remove Package', reboot, then 'Upload Package'.

I hope this helps,
Chuck
 
N7JWW
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No joy
Chuck,

Thanks for the suggestion. I removed the MeshChat 1.02 package, rebooted, reinstalled MeshChat 1.02 package, rebooted...and still no MeshChat. After I reinstalled, I got this message:
 
Installing meshchat (1.02) to root...
Applying service announcement

Mesh Chat has been setup at http://N7JWW-Mesh-2:8080/meshchat

An advertised service has been added for Mesh Chat on the Services configuration page
Configuring meshchat.
Failed to restart all services, please reboot this node.

I've rebooted many times. The peculiar thing is I have two CPE210s and the both behaved the same way: the initial installation of MeshChat was successful on both units but somewhere along the way MeshChat stopped working on both units and I can't for the life of me get it running again. 
 
N7JWW
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Reset to Firstboot worked
I decided to give Reset to Firstboot a try. Box came back up at 192.168.1.1 and I had to reenter name, password, location, and reboot. After that I uploaded meshchat package...and it worked! So I will keep and eye on it but Reset to Firstboot was the key for me.

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