I ran some more tests this morning, to see if I could re-establish the Rachio 2 WiFi connection. Once connected, Rachio 3 typically stayed connected for almost a week.
And a power off-on used to re-establish the connection routinely.
Prior to adopting the power off-on approach, I did reset the WiFi connection a few times successfully, but found process a bit fussy.
Right now, even though I have two bars on my iPhone, I now just cannot persuade Rachio 3 to re-establish the WiFi connection. The Rachio 3 did used to reconnect OK until recently, so thought I would see if I could figure out why.
Each time I try to re-establish the WiFi connection, the process fails with
“An Unexpected error occurred. Try again”
Firstly, I reset my WiFi Modem, and restarted my iPhone (and iMac).
I then followed the steps to reset the Rachio 3 WiFi connection.
a) with the iPhone set to Airplane mode, then…
b) with the iPhone in normal mode (Airplane mode off)
Both approaches fail, with the same error message.
“An Unexpected error occurred. Try again”
But what I did observe, in repeating b) is that during the "Setting up this accessory to join “Telstra197B1D” stage, the iPhone dropped the WiFi connection, back to 4G.
When repeating a) I note that the iPhone also dropped WiFi connection.
I have attached screen captures of the sequence for both a) and b).
Something does not feel right here Franz…