This will probably come across a bit bitchy, but it’s not supposed to. I love Particle and I’ve been using them since the 1st batch was shipped, I really want to use them for everything but I have constant problems with either faulty hardware, software/library inconsistencies, undocumented “quirks”…

[image] ScruffR: Do you get any errors or does it just not work? Just that SPI1 has no methods when you try and call them in the code. It's working now with 6.1 and I haven't changed the code at all.

[image] Nemiah: Now I just need to get the desktop IDE compiling so I don't waste my mobile data. I'll have a play around and see where I get to. You'll need to have the CLI for local flashing, since the desktop IDE currently doesn't handle wired flashing as far as I'm aware. If you've got t…

[image] Moors7: You'll need to have the CLI for local flashing, since the desktop IDE currently doesn't handle wired flashing as far as I'm aware. If you've got the CLI, hook up your device in DFU mode and issue particle flash --usb firmware.bin from the respective directory. Make sure you've go…

[image] Nemiah: Random question about the 4wire touch lib... The update rate on electron seems massively slower than the photon running the same code, any ideas? Hmm, I'm not sure - it shouldn't be. The only thing I could imagine is that loop() might be called less frequently due to cellul…

[image] ScruffR: Update: I tested this with threading enabled and I can't really see any difference in performance between Photon and Electron. Great, I'll give it a go when I get a chance, I have a replacement Electron now. I've had a PCB made too, the spec for my project is: as small a pa…

When using an Electron with a display, one thing to check before finishing your PCB is whether your display would run off the 3.7V provided by the Electron’s Vin pin when you only run on battery. You might need a buck boost converter then - unless you have other means to power the setup.

Just a bit of an update on this and it’s just more of the same. I don’t get why I seem to have so many problems with this platform. The PCBs have arrived and I’m just building a test rig using headers so I can interchange parts. I had the circuit up and running on a breadboard fine, swapped it ov…

Would love to see the GERBER screenshots for the top and bottom copper layer if that’s shareable. I would simply switch back to the breadboard setup with the same photon and see if everything works fine. If that’s working fine, there’s probably more to look into for the PCB design.

I have the PCB working now, and putting the photon/electron back on the breadboard also worked. I have an entirely different issue now and that’s neither of the photons will connect to WiFi. Although the Electrons work fine over 2G. I gave up trying to set new keys on the Photon that was blinking …

Electron and general platform woes :(

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It was the keys, I followed the instructions from a different post about the same issue and they worked..

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Electron and general platform woes :(

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