FlashPAP setup with Linux

krauster · Post by **krauster** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 6:38 pm

I've switched to Linux, and recently switched from service from DSL to fiber and have a new router. I used to use Sleepyhead and flashPAP on Windows 10 with the old router.

Now I am using Linux Mint 20. I've downloading and installed Oscar and downloaded FlashPAP. It took a while and some help from a friend to get Oracle Java 8 installed to run FlashPAP but I now have FlashPAP launching, BUT not connecting to the FlashAir device.

I don't know Linux very well. I don't know how to find the specific address 192.168.42.xxx on the local network of the Toshiba FlashAir card that I have inserted into the Resmed 10. I think that if I knew that, I could enter it in the FlashPAP setup.

I've logged into my router to try to find the IP address of the FlashAir but I don't recognize it in the list of devices connected. It was previously configured to talk to Windows. On the windows machine I can see the address that it used to have but windows doesn't find it at that address. This is because I have a new router with a new setup. I'm wondering if it is some setting in the router that is not allowing the FlashAir to connect.

khauser · Post by **khauser** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 8:18 pm

I don't think this is about Linux. I think your flashair card did not know about the new router.
I googled around a bit and there's a suggestion that a phone app exists and another suggests a windows utility can be used. Don't know if a Linux utility exists, but all of this should be somewhere on Toshiba's website...

krauster · Post by **krauster** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:02 pm

Hmmm, I downloaded the toshiba flashair android app and had the app look for the card, while it was in the Resmed. The app did not find the card.
Took the card out of the Resmed and moved to the card reader on the linux laptop. The card showed up on the desktop as a device, but the flashair app didn't find it there.

Maybe the wifi part of the card is dead? It's rare to actually have hardware problems with computer stuff but maybe this is one of those times.

I don't know how to trouble shoot it further.

khauser · Post by **khauser** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 7:44 am

I doubt this is hardware failure. I think it's that the sd card remembers your old network.

Documentation is sparse for that card.

You still have a windows machine if I understand. Can you put the card on that machine and maybe use the windows tool to configure it?

Since I don't have that card I can't tell you details on how to do it, sorry

Okie bipap · Post by **Okie bipap** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 6:53 pm

Have you updated the config file on the SD card to the new router name and password?

krauster · Post by **krauster** » Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:59 am

Yes, I had forgotten to update the config file in the SD_WLAN directory of the flashcard to set the new router's new SSID and password. I also had a problem with the config file for a while because I forgot to pay attention to not call out the wrong band of WIFI. I was mistakenly calling out the SSID for the 5G wifi and needed to call out the router's 2.4G SSID. Also I learned how to set a dedicated 192.168.42.xxx for the router that is otherwise doing DHCP. So that part all seems to be working now. I can use the flashpap.jar to talk to the Toshiba flashair card.

EDIT: I found the location of the executable and configured FlashPAP to open Oscar.
/usr/bin/OSCAR

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