WiFiDrive

A cool device that looks like an ordinary flash drive to your machine, except you manage its contents over WiFi.

Initial setup

1. Plug the USB port of the device into your machine.
2. Wait for a 🟣 purple LED or screen: the device is waiting for setup.
3. On your computer or phone look for the network WIFIDRIVE and join it, or scan the screen's QR instead.
4. There you can join your WiFi network and even change the name of the device to something you will easily remember. DONE!

Everyday use

1. Open http://wifidrive.local
   You will see your files, but in 🟢 USB mode the machine owns them and you cannot change anything.
2. Switch to 🔵 WiFi mode. The drive vanishes from the machine so you can write.
3. Drop files in — whole folders too — delete what you don't need, make new folders.
4. Switch back to 🟢 USB mode. The machine sees the new files.

Only one side can own a drive at a time; if both wrote at once the filesystem would corrupt. It always starts in USB mode, so a power cut never leaves the machine without its drive.
And if you forget it in WiFi mode for 15 minutes, it also switches back by itself.

Remote access

The Remote access switch makes the device reachable from outside your network via remote.wifidrive.app.
It is off until you turn it on, and off means the device talks to nothing but your own WiFi.

The device name

Change the device name to something you will always remember, like the machine it's always plugged into.

Use up to 11 characters: letters, numbers and dashes. Then access the device by typing <device_name>.local in your browser.

It takes effect on restart, and the WiFi network it creates when it has nowhere to connect will also use this name.

Volumes

Two, and you choose which one the machine sees. Switching between them needs WiFi mode.

• Internal — about 15 MB. Small, but it is what keeps working with machines that read nothing else, and you can change how it is formatted if yours refuses it.
• microSD — if your board has a card in it, this is the one you want for lots of large files.
  The card can only be changed with the device unplugged. Choose the size of the card based on what your machine reads. Don't overshoot.

Formatting a volume

In WiFi mode, go to Settings (the gear on the top corner) and select the volume you want to format; the other one is left alone.

Machines disagree about what a drive should look like, so you can try with different Compatibility settings until yours accepts it.

A card WiFiDrive cannot read may still open on a computer. Look there before erasing it.

Factory reset

Hold the BOOT button for ten seconds while the device is running. Nothing happens for the first three, then the LED blinks 🔴 red and a screen counts down, and at ten the device restarts. Let go before that and nothing is erased.

It forgets the name, the WiFi network, and which volume it was showing, and comes back as WIFIDRIVE with its own network.
Your files are not touched.

The LED

Blinking fast in green or blue means files are moving. A screen shows the same states in the same colors, and names them.

When something doesn't work

My computer can't see it. If your device has a screen, press the BOOT button briefly and scan the QR to open its page.
Also, check the WiFiDrive IP address in your router's device list, then enter it in your browser, e.g: http://192.168.1.145/

I can't find it on Windows. Look under Network: the device puts itself there. (Windows needs the network set to Private, with Network discovery turned ON).

I still can't find it on the network. Both your computer and the WiFiDrive must be on the same WiFi network, and never on a guest network since they block devices from seeing each other.

The machine doesn't see the drive. Look at the LED or the screen. Blue means WiFi mode, and in WiFi mode the machine is supposed to see nothing. Switch to USB mode.

The machine still doesn't see the drive. Some boards have two USB-C ports. Look for tiny letters on the board and check you have plugged in the port named USB.

The machine sees it but says it can't read it. Change Compatibility and format again, working through the list.

The files I uploaded aren't there. Same thing — switch back to USB mode.

I saved the wrong WiFi network. Press the BOOT button for 10 seconds to factory reset your WiFiDrive. Then look for the network WIFIDRIVE and join it to set up again.

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