Android app can't read feeds

Emoncms Mobile
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Greetings.

I’m trying to set the android app ver 1.2.2 to read the local emoncms server. Actually, I installed the system with emontx and emonbase (Raspberry 2 & ethernet), I get report in the local server and access with emoncms trough the website emoncms.org; but the app show me error message: “unable to download feeds list. Please check URL and API settings as well as connectivity to…”

I set feeds with PHPFINA engine in the emoncms server and emoncms.org, I tried with local API number and both API from the emoncms.org, but no results event using the same network.

Can somebody help me, please?

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Hi,

Good work getting up and running. You need to enter the URL and the emoncms server and read-only API key into the Android app. If you’re running the latest version of emoncms on your emonBase you can automate this setup by scanning a QR code, see blog post.

Alternatively you will just need to enter in the details manually. The URL for local emoncms servers will need the /emoncms appended after the domain or local ip address e.g. 192.168.1.100/emoncms. Be sure to check that SSL is disabled in the app settings when connecting to an emonBase Emoncms server. Only emoncms.org supports SSL/HTTPS by default.

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If you use SSL you must have a valid server certificate. Self-signed certificates fail with this error, as I found out.

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Hi, I am trying to setup de android app 2.2.0

I manage to configure the url and API key with my local emoncms, unchecking the SSL box.

But I do not succed to connect to the remote emoncms in order to see my dashboard over the internet. These are the settings:
url: emoncms.org
API: the one from my account on Emoncms - user login
SSL: checked/uncecked. Neither works

Note: the camera on my phone does not work, so can not scan the bar code.

Could you please help?

Thanks!
Luis

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You can enter the read-only API manually into the app, ideally copy and paste for from an email / IM / SMS etc.