MC227 Meural Canvas firmware update w/o network?

Update:  Amazingly I had a friend who offered the use of their old iPhone 4 to use the workaround outlined by felkoh-digital who posted:

 

On the iPhone 4 I had to erase the device and set up as new so it would accept my AppleID for App Store downloads:

Settings>General>Reset>Erase all Content and Settings

 

Then downloaded the latest compatible Meural App and used it’s setup system to connect my Canvas to my local network.  After that I was able to control the the Canvas from my normal iPhone with the latest Meural app.

 

I’m going to go order a refurbished iPhone 4 of my own from EBay for $20 so I can return the borrowed iPhone 4 and have my own backup in case I ever need to do a factory reset of my Canvas.  Hilarious!

 

Major props and thanks to both felkoh-digital and thingsrbad who’s detective work helped keep my Canvas out of the electronics recycling bin!

 

 

My free recommendation to the Meural development team (worth just what you paid for it):  Confirm function with a factory reset of all your Canvas devices in your testing lab before pushing new versions of the Meural App.  You do have an instance of all your released Canvas devices in your lab, right?

 

This discussion thread can now safely be closed.

 

Thanks.