Electron error message?

Troubleshooting
1

Hi there,

I’m getting the json below when attempting to retrieve data from my electron. any ideas? The same code works flawlessly on the photon. Any ideas what this means?

{
“ok”: false,
“error”: “Problem requesting variable: TimeoutError: message Describe reached maximum number of retransmissions”
}

2

Are you using any of the sleep functions?

3

I’m not using a sleep function, but I am a delay. The delay was simply to make the output to the serial more manageable during testing.

4

Just checking. I know there are network issues at the moment if your using System.sleep functions.

5

I’m a little late to the party but I had this same error. My issue occurred when I would call a cloud-registered function using the API while my particle device was in a loop (in particular waiting on a URC) within the main loop().

void loop(){
    while (waiting for URC) {
        if(URC arrived){
            do stuff;
        }
    }
}

To fix this either call Particle.process() to handle the other tasks, or delay() which delays for a period of time but also invokes background processes.

After fixing my code it looked something like this:

void loop(){
    while (waiting for URC) {
        if(URC arrived){
            do stuff;
        }
        delay(200); <- particle.function() calls handled here
    }
}

Hope this helped!