While getting my feet wet with the Mesh devices, I am concerned that the Mesh network has limited use in industrial settings because of the limited range. I understand the range is a bit subjective right now as there isn’t a lot of empirical evidence as to what the useful range is and how the enviro…

[image] ScruffR: There are no current plans to discontinue the Photon - you may want to read Will’s response on the discussion about “legacy” devices. Oh I read it... just didn't get a "warm and fuzzy" about the longevity of it.

Sometimes you don’t need to get emotional but can just take the words for what they literally mean :wink:

@ninjatill , I have been strongly advocating for a Photon 2 as I don’t believe the Argon has what it takes for the job (MHz, RAM, Flash, etc.) However, for a LOT of situations, it will fit the bill nicely. If the Particle future is Mesh then it would stand to reason that future devices support it a…

This feature would make a lot of my applications, and customer applications, much more robust and easy to use.

Yes, this would be a very valuable capability. I had made a question regarding basically the same functionality here: [image] 2 zone mesh network connected via wifi? BLE // NFC Thanks for the replies, from what I can tell perhaps some UDP & mesh will do what I want - bas…

Would something like Multicast help with your use-case? [image] Multicast UDP Tutorial Tutorials Thanks @rickkas7 … Imagine a LED Scoreboard displaying a running time and lap splits and/or finish times but on a SMART TV browser… I also want to provide the same data to tho…

I also would love to see this local publish feature. It’s exactly the easy to use local communication feature I’m desiring for a large 50 to 100 room networks that still allow communication when WiFi is down. The MESH doesn’t look like it’s going to cut it.

Yes. I use UDP Multicast in another project. In that case, all packets are not encrypted. Any other device on the network would potentially have access to the data or be able to join the multicast without authorization. I was looking for a built-in solution that would be a drop-in replacement for Pa…

They can’t get rid of the Photon until they have something just as stable to replace it. That stability/reliability takes some real time and a lot of end user feedback to accomplish.

Yeah, I should have read more closely before I asked. I guess local cloud server isn’t being maintained any more? https://github.com/particle-iot/spark-server

Feature request - New primitive Local.Publish() for WiFi Devices

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Would something like Multicast help with your use-case?

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Feature request - New primitive Local.Publish() for WiFi Devices

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