I have the Catalyst Voting app installed, it says I’m ready to vote, but whenever I go to the Proposals tab, my screen freezes. Sometimes I get to the point where I can open and read a proposal, but usually I’m not getting past the six Fund 12 categories.
A lot of people had that: Up to now in all cases it helped to deinstall and reinstall the voting app. You need to connect again with the QR code and the PIN.
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Thanks
Ugh. I was hoping to avoid that. I’m not sure where my QR code is.
I found my QR code. Three of them actually. None of them work.
Only the last registration that you have done works. It overrides all earlier ones.
If you navigate to the staking account of your wallet on adastat.net, the Catalyst Wallet ID shown there is a link to the registration transaction:
This can give you a hint when you have done the latest registration and (hopefully) saved the QR code.
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Thanks.
And now - grr - the app said my PIN was incorrect. I don’t suppose there’s way to recover that, is there?
I wrote down two PINs. Neither worked.
I must have plugged in some other number.
There actually is:
But I spontaneously don’t have the command ready to do it on non-Linux.
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Unfortunately experiencing the same exact issue. I followed the instructions provided by HeptaSean (Thanks!) however, now the app is saying I input the wrong PIN. I know the PIN is correct because I wrote it down when I first registered with the app.
Heya. If PIN is giving error - and you are 100% certain it isn’t else - that would suggest there is another QR code available that was generated. As each has its own unique one. You could brute force it if you have QR code to see it matches well.
Are there any instructions on how to run the brute force script?
There is not really much of a script there.
You can download catalyst-toolbox for a bunch of platforms from: https://github.com/input-output-hk/catalyst-toolbox/releases/tag/v0.5.0
What I then just did was stupidly calling catalyst-toolbox qr-code decode --input QRFILE --pin PIN img with every possible of the 10000 PINs until it said that it was successful. That should be possible to be scripted on Windows also, but I don’t know enough of it.
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Well, I’m in over my head. The idea of brute forcing the PIN had occurred to me, but unless someone savvier comes up with a way to automate it on Windows and can hold my hand through the process of using it, I’d have to do those 10,000 combinations one at a time by hand.
We have been trying that for years and it Never works, personally we believe the voteing system is being rigged or scammed by someone
Heya - let’s break it down. Which part doesn’t work? Maybe we’ll find a way to work through it together.
@FrankR Do you remember when the registration was made? At the time the wallet would be asking you to save both QR/PIN code - you are likely to have saved it somewhere as per instructions. Maybe even screenshot, or similar. If you were choosing your own PIN (in some wallets that’s the case) - generally we tend to chose numbers that are familiar to us. You may have some recall that way.
I wish I had a screenshot of the PIN, but I don’t. When I successfully registered for Fund 11 I thought I used the PIN I wrote down two or three years ago. I’ve tried multiple small variations of it on the chance that I entered it wrong.
If there are catalyst funding rounds in the future, I won’t count on my registration carrying over. I’ll register anew for each round.
Heya @FrankR - registrations do carry over. Just always one must keep in mind that whenever - for whatever reason you would make another QR/PIN code - you need to save that combo (as previous one will be invalidated). And must keep the new QR/PIN code safe as these are your credentials for the voting. You don’t have to re-register it each time historically to be able to vote.
I have now put the brute-forcing in a small web app:
You just scan the QR code and it starts trying all possible PINs and stops when it found the correct one. Maybe that helps.
And, in case that is not clear from the article: Never share screenshots of your QR code (or the code read from it) with anyone!
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