Wireless Bolt does not reconnect to WiFi after data inactivity loss

[sslovik]

We have 10 of the anybus Bolts all connecting to our wireless AP’s in the manufacturing room.
They all have a static IP address defined, and simple Ethernet connection to either an AB micro820 or CompactLogix PLC.
These run great, until a machine is down for maintenance and we no longer collecting any data.
After a period of time (unknown), the Bolts lose connection to my Access Point, and do not reconnect themselves. My maintenance team has to manually powercycle the Bolts to bring them back online so we can communicate again with the PLCs. This seems like a bug in the firmware running v1.3.9

[support]

Hello,

I have addressed this in this post,

Wireless Bolt needs power-up reset

Hi Chris, Funny, I have been dealing with this same issue since we purchased 10 of these Bolts back in December. At first, the maintenance team was blaming my wireless network, but we have 4 eWON Flexy with wireless on the same AP without any issues. I also thought it was the cheap micro820 PLC, but we see this happening on Bolts with CompactLogix PLC too. I know HMS is working to fix this in a firmware update. I wonder if its possible to keep these Bolts connected to our AP’s if we send a co…

Thanks!

Nick