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Airgradient Outdoor in Zombie Mode

Hi, I’m have been a longtime user of both an indoor and an outdoor device. Both units are updated automatically. Both have started to disconnect from WIFI a few months ago for short periods of time, but that has stopped: the indoor unit is stable, but the outdoor unit did not connect at all. The LED on this unit (v1.3) was off.
I thought it had a bad USB cable, there were visible signs of wear, so I have reconnected it with a known good cable to a new power supply and the led began flashing two short flashes, but it did not want to connect to my WIFI.
Instead it went into AP mode and I could connect to it, but only for brief periods. I could try to install a firmware image, but I have not found any on the homepage.
If I didn’t try to connect to it via WIFI, the flashing started with 2 short flashes, then some time went by and it changed to 3 flashes, then I believe it rebooted itself, so this process repeated itself.
Now after many failed attempts (I can’t explain why those were unsuccessful) I have managed to connect via USB reflashed the board, reset it, connected to it via WIFI, set my WIFI password. Now it seems to connect over the WIFI and everything is working.
So now I hope it will stay stable.

I started this mail before I had succeess with reflashing, but now I think it might be of some value to other users experiencing similar issues. I also wanted to ask if someone else had similar issues?