Mblock 5 and 2.4 ghz wireless

[tiho747]

Hello,

I cannot connect mbot to Mblock 5 via 2.4 ghz wireless conection.
App doesnt recognize usb.
What to do??
Mblock 3 works fine.
Best regards

[Rob_Martin]

Hi tiho747,

there is a lot of trouble with wireless communication with the bots.
Mblock5 is currently not stable, maybe the future brings the support for the 2.4 Module.
Have a look here:

Make mBlock compatible with 2.4GHz

I’ve been wrestling for hours trying to get mBlock v5.0.0 beta 4 to connect to my new mBot via the 2.4GHz module only to run across a post here from a few months ago stating that mBlock v5.0.0 beta 3 is not compatible with the 2.4GHz module. It would have been very nice for any of the support documentation have to mentioned this important point, but when will this functionality be added to mBlock 5?.

The tech_support wrote at Aug, 18th:

Sorry, currently there is no plan to add this 2.4G for mBlock5.

I want to buy 30-40 mbots for school, but currently my private brand new Makeblock Ranger isn’t able to commmunicate with mBlock 3.4.11 or mBlock 5 (bluetooth-edition). I can’t use cable at school, so I’m looking for calliope or micro:bit for teaching.

[stephane]

I was about to ask the same question. I bought a mBot 1.1 with a WiFi module and, according to the documentation, it’s only possible to connect using USB or Bluetooth.

It works great with mBlock 3 but mBlock 5 provides some useful additional commands and it’s a shame it does not work anymore with WiFi.

I cannot undersand how such a feature can be removed from mblock 5. As a teacher, how will I be able to connect the mBots of my students ?

Is it possible to import new commands into mblock 3 ?

Please fix this guys, it’s a non sense.

Love your works BTW

[tech_support]

Currently there is no plan to add 2.4G to mBlock 5 as we will focus on Bluetooth connection which comes to be stable. But we’ll also feedback the suggestion to the software team.