Registration and Skimdevil Start-up

The Registration Station

Hi there! Let's get your Skimdevil Pure setup so you can start skimming! Please follow the instructions below to both register and connect your Skimdevil Pure to wifi.

Your bot will work out of the box with default settings, but in order to use features like a custom schedule, temperature, etc. and receive the latest updates, you will need to connect your bot to your home wifi network and register it. 

• Remember, your warranty is only valid if you register your Skimdevil. All Skimdevils also have an extended 2-year warranty. 
• This video may also be helpful for registering or connecting your Skimdevil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A98uSAPNOns&t=14s

Have your home wifi password handy!

Let's get started :) 

CONNECTING TO WIFI

1. Make sure your Skimdevil is charged up and ready to go! It should be charged out of the box.
2. Hit the power button to turn on your Skimdevil. 
3. The green power light and the blue battery light will both turn on. The blue light should blink a few times and then hold steady. 
4. On your desktop or phone pull up your wifi settings.
   1. For iPhone users: To connect, please go to iOS “Settings” app -> WiFi to select the bot wifi. 
5. In your wifi settings, search for "Skimdevil-SERIAL NUMBER". Please select this network. The serial number is a random set of numbers unique to each Skimdevil. Example: "Skimdevil-ac4be3932ba". 
6. A password prompt will appear. Please use the password "cleanpool".
   1. For Android users: After connecting to the bot wifi, please swipe down from the top of the screen and select “Sign in to Wi-Fi network”.
7. Now, a "Log In" window should pop up with a list of your wifi networks. 
8. Select your home wifi network and enter your password. Tap CONNECT. If it is successful, you should see a "Skimdevil WiFi Connected" pop-up. YAY! 

REGISTERING YOUR SKIMDEVIL

1. Now, after you've connected to wifi, please register your bot. You should see a screen pop up after the connection. On this screen, enter your preferred email address and hit REGISTER. This is the email address that will be linked with your Skimdevil account. “A confirmation email was just sent…” screen should then appear. 
2. Tap RESET SKIMDEVIL — the window should close in a few seconds.
3. Head to your email account. Open the Skimdevil confirmation email and click the confirmation link. This will take you to the web app to a "Create New Account" page. “Skimdevil linked…” will be in green at the bottom of this page.
4. Create your Skimdevil account. You will then be prompted to login.
5. You are now registered! Wooohooo!!! 
6. Place your Skimdevil in your pool and press START. It will start running the default cleaning window. You can customize this cleaning window in the web app. 

When you turn on your Skimdevil post-registration, the blue light will turn on with the green light while it's booting up. It will then turn off when your Skimdevil is ready to clean. 

BETA iPHONE APP

If you have an iPhone, we also have a native beta app released that has some bugs, but may help with registration. Please try it out in TestFlight at the link below: 

https://testflight.apple.com/join/7PzfAgY7

After registering your Skimdevil with this app, please make sure to connect your home wifi network in "Settings"—>"Wifi Settings". This will ensure you can push the latest updates to your Skimdevil. 

ISSUES WITH REGISTRATION?

If you're having an issue connecting your Skimdevil to your wifi network, or completing registration, check out this page first. Sometimes, the Skimdevil wifi network will have trouble connecting to your home network. If this happens, you can do a few things. 

Are you registering on your phone or computer? What type of phone do you have? If it’s an iPhone, please see below. 

We’ve been running into a bug where the pop-up to connect to your home network stalls. Our tech team is working to fix it, but right now, we have a workaround. If we can connect to your home network and it’s still buggy, we can manually register you with that serial number and your preferred email address. Check out the below to connect your Skimdevil to your home wifi network. 

If you’re using an iPhone:
- Using your phone, connect to Skimdevil wifi.
- Next, if you are getting a blank screen, with nothing there as the next step, tap “cancel” in the right hand corner.
- Three options should appear at the bottom after hitting cancel. Please select “Use without internet”
- Then, open up a browser window in Safari.
- Type in this IP address: http://192.168.4.1/wificonfig

- Continue through the registration process per above. 

If you’re using your desktop: 
- Connect to Skimdevil wifi
- If the pop up window stalls or you’re getting a blank screen, open up a browser window, but leave that stall running. 
- Type in that same IP address: http://192.168.4.1/wificonfig

- Continue through the registration process per above. 

If you still can't get online after going through these steps, please email support@skimdevil.com

SKIMDEVIL PURE WEB APP

We're in the process of our getting our iPhone app finalized and out of beta and are creating our Android version. 

PLEASE NOTE: You will use your email and password from robot registration to login into the web app.

To get the web app, head here.