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📎 Overview: We will go over how to set up the robot and connect to CYOBot’s supporting portal.
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Requirement
- Secure WiFi connection
- For first time setup, we recommend using your home WiFi.
- A flat surface nearby the router.
- A laptop
Instruction
Turn on the robot using the switch on the side of the robot (see photo). Check at the bottom of the robot if there's a green light/LED on, which means power on.
- If the light is not on, it might be because the robot is low battery.
- If so, charge robot with a USB C cable (use your laptop USB port or phone charger).
- A red LED is turned on at the bottom of the robot to show the charger is working. You can use the robot while it’s charging.

When the robot is turned on, there will be a sequence of green light running around the body of the robot, following by a purple light blinking on the LED display, indicating that the robot finished starting up.

Connect robot to Portal
Step 1: Connect to robot via WiFi
Open settings on your laptop, go to WiFi settings, refresh the WiFi list, find the name CYOBot or CYOCrawler and connect to the robot WiFi

- Open a web browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari, etc) on your device.
- CYOBot Portal will be loaded in 5 -10 seconds. If it is your first time loading the Portal, this process could take 1 minute or longer depending on your computer/browser. While the portal is loaded, do not refresh the page.
- If portal doesn’t load:
- If error shown on browser, type in 192.168.4.1 instead
- If browser takes more than 10 seconds to load, open it in incognito mode and type in 192.168.4.1