I am in the process of installing Smart citizen sensors. Although yesterday I successfully installed 2, today the sck.me redirects to the godaddy.com page and the domain is for sale. Any help?
Hey,
Good question, and thanks for flagging it.
sck.me is not a real domain we own (unlike smartcitizen.me). In the setup guide we ask you to type sck.me just as a dummy address – it could actually be any domain. The only purpose is to trigger the captive portal behaviour (DNS spoofing) so your phone gets redirected to the device configuration page.
If you type sck.me and end up on GoDaddy with a “domain for sale” page, that means:
- Your phone is not properly connected to the
SmartCitizen[...]Wi-Fi network created by the kit, or - Something is blocking / overriding the captive portal behaviour on your device (for example mobile data on, VPN, DNS filters, etc.).
A few things you can try:
- Forget any previous Smart Citizen Wi-Fi networks on your phone.
- Reconnect explicitly to the kit’s Wi-Fi network
SmartCitizen[xxxx]. - Once connected, disable mobile data temporarily.
- Open your browser and type
sck.meagain – or simply try a non-HTTPS URL likehttp://example.com. - Alternatively, you can try going directly to:
http://192.168.1.1
If, after these steps, the browser still opens the GoDaddy page, it’s worth testing with another device. A different phone often resolves connection or DNS handling issues. Most common laptops or computers with a standard Wi-Fi adapter should also succeed in accessing the kit’s configuration portal.
Hi, another thing you can try is to open a “private window” on your phone browser and disconnect the phone data. Sometimes, browsers cache the pages or completely ignore the WiFi connection because it has no Internet access.