Hello, very new to Photon (old Arduino hand) so could be doing something silly. I have looked through documentation and forum and couldn’t seem to find an up to date answer, sorry if I am missing something.
I can connect my Photon to the cloud at home and flash to it via the Build web IDE no problem, but when I try at work it just won’t connect to the cloud (fast flashing cyan). I am guessing it is because we go through an HTTP proxy?
Is it possible to set web proxy settings on the Photon? I don’t need to enter user credentials, just the proxy server address and port.
Thanks for the replies. I see and have just done lots of reading about CoAP!
I have requested the port opening, but apparently this can take two weeks or more so I will have to wait and see if that sorts it.
In fact, the current device I want to build doesn’t need cloud access as I only want it to communicate locally over UDP (using OSC). So presumably it is already as connected as it needs to be? In that case I should be able to use Particle Build, download the binary and (somehow) flash it to the device over USB? Will it still be able to use the local network without connecting fully to the cloud?
I am able to flash my code to the Photon with CLI and ‘particle flash --serial firmware.bin’ , have set the device to semi_automatic and have connected to Wifi with ‘WiFi.connect();’.
The device is now breathing green which I believe shows it is connected to the wifi network, but not the cloud which is what I want.
I need to do some more work to get the OSC going, but hey that’s another story. Thanks for all the help.