Saturday, November 10, 2018

Trouble Shoot Google Home Mini Connection Setup

Hi folks,

I bought a Google Home Mini and set it up and worked like a charm for two or three days. However suddenly when I was calling 'Hey Google' it started saying that it can't connect to Wi-Fi. So I went through the standard Google Home connection issue trouble shoot process. Here are some of them.

  1. Check your wifi connection is working properly.
  2. Restart your wifi router.
  3. Forget the wifi connection from your phone and re-connect it. 
  4. Reset the Google Home Mini ( by pressing and holding the reset button at the bottom )
  5. Remove Google Home Mini and adding the device again
  6. Uninstalling and installing the Google Home App 
If none of them works, then there is one more simple thing to do ( which actually worked for me ). The issue was that my TP-Link router could not assign an IP address to Google Home Mini. Therefore I had to manually set it up. In Google Home App you can find the MAC address of the device. Then you can add it manually to DHCP table and save it. 

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This will fix your device's Setting Up connection issue. 

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Difference between Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin run-war and run-war-only

Hi all,

According to the Apache Tomcat maven plugin documentation, the difference between the two goals are as following.

tomcat7:run-war Runs the current project as a packaged web application using an embedded Tomcat server.
tomcat7:run-war-only Same as run-war goal without forking the package cycle.

You can see the difference in each goal, if you first clean the target and execute each.

When  you execute tomcat7:run-war, it will run the package cycle again, build the war file and deploy it in the local tomcat instance. This should enable you to access the deployed service as needed.

But if you clean the target and execute tomcat7:run-war-only, then the package cycle won't run, only the tomcat will be started. You won't be able to access the web application using the URL.

Thank you.

Kinath.