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NOTE If you connect your Photon board over USB for the first time, you will also be
required to manually claim your Photon to connect to your account.

Manually Claiming Your Photon

Once your Photon is connected to your Wi-Fi network, it also needs to be claimed to
connect it to your account. This lets you control your Photon board and keeps anyone else
from doing so. If you use the Particle mobile application, your Photon is automatically

claimed to your account; however, if you connect your Photon over USB or if the claiming
process was unsuccessful, then you need to claim it manually by using the following steps.

The easiest way to manually claim your Photon is to connect your Photon through
USB serial and request the Photon’s ID using the “I” command; you can then claim it via

the Particle Build website. You device ID should be displayed as follows:

# Photon ID

55ff68064989495329092587

Once you have this unique Photon ID, open up the Particle Build page
(http://www.particle.io/build) and click the Devices icon. Click the button that says Add
New Device and enter your Photon’s ID in the text box as shown in Figure 2.6.