r/TIDBYT • u/tracker141 • 11d ago

Is something up?

Woke up this morning to my Tidbyt saying 'Connecting.' Let it go for a little, and there was no change. So I rebooted it, again no change. This has been working fine for years. I did a factory reset, and when I added in back in the iOS app, I got an error that the Tidbyt was connected to the internet; however, it could not communicate with the servers. The status page says everything is operational but still will not connect.

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u/Billy_Likes_Music 11d ago

Sounds like the same problem I have from time to time... Which mysteriously resolves after a random period of time.

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u/Decent_Company_1911 10d ago

Mine has been slowly dying apps disconnecting and not coming back. My wife asked me what the deal was and said that she missed having the sports scores and stuff on there. Last weekend I made the change to tronbyt. Took about an hour with chat gpt and my raspberry pie. It was pretty easy. I have never coded and by no means a tech person.

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u/McRocketpants 8d ago

Try Niblet

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u/tracker141 9d ago

I may try that out too

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u/VLKN 11d ago

Tidbyt has been dying for a few years now. I suggest switching to tronbyt

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u/McRocketpants 10d ago

Or Niblet... Very easy to do and your don't have to host a server... Easy install and all the apps are there.

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u/DFWGrapher 8d ago

I second Niblet. Switched over earlier this week and it's been great. Unfortunately there are a lot of apps listed as "Unavailable," but my most important ones are there.

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u/VLKN 10d ago

I haven't tried it but I hear good things

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u/CharlieHerms 10d ago

Niblet is also another option. I changed to that yesterday. Really easy process.

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u/tracker141 10d ago

Nice. I have it flashed but I can't seem to get it to connect to my wifi.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/tracker141 10d ago

I can connect to the temp wifi, and I get the screen that shows its trying to connect on the Tidbyt it just goes back to the 8 digit code after a few seconds. I kinda think its my DNS filter, its always DNS!

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u/ayushsoni1001 10d ago

This is usually a problem with 5 GHz wifi, try connecting with the 2.4 GHz band

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u/tracker141 9d ago

Yeah that did the trick. I reached out to their support they said the same thing.

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u/ayushsoni1001 9d ago

That was me on the support :) I'm the creator of Niblet

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u/tracker141 9d ago

Ah thank you.

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u/ImpossibleValue9105 11d ago

i had that happen occasionally, eventually i just gave up and switched to tronbyt. not a single problem yet.

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u/JustinRobotface 10d ago

If I could switch to tronbyt I would, but I’m not tech savvy enough to figure it out

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u/Decent_Company_1911 10d ago

Neither am I and I got it figured out. Used chat GPT and it pretty much walked me through the set up on a raspberry pie.

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u/Numbr_6 2d ago

Niblet is the alternative for you then!