How to get the RSSI of the current connection?

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Hmm that's interesting, from the documentation

WiFi.RSSI() returns the signal strength of a Wi-Fi network from -127 (weak) to -1dB (strong) as an int. Positive return values indicate an error with 1 indicating a Wi-Fi chip error and 2 indicating a time-out error.

Doesn't that seem to indicate that WiFi.RSSI() returns an int?

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You said it right, it seems so, but what the eye sees isn’t always what’s real :wink:

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It seems to behave like an int in any code I've ever written. I can use it as the return statement in a Particle.function, I can use it in a Particle.variable, and the code that @incorvia posted works fine for me. So, I can't explain why it doesn't work for him. Have you seen this problem if you don't cast to int8_t?

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The WiFiSignal object has an overload so that when you assign it to an int8_t or equivalent it does the right thing and returns an integer type. So in your code if you did this it would work:

char rssi[10];
int strength = WiFi.RSSI();
sprintf(rssi, "%i", strength);
Serial.println(rssi);
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@Ric, since there are only three overloads for Particle.variable() and only one of them takes a parameter that can be matched by the compiler with the available (int8_t) overload it works.
As long the compiler can make a match it will try to, but with sprintf() there is no way to do match against.

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So, why does this work for me then. It seems to be the same thing that @incorvia is saying doesn’t work for him,

char rssi[10];

void setup() {
    Serial.begin();
}

void loop() { 
    
    sprintf(rssi, "%i", WiFi.RSSI());
    Serial.println(rssi);
    delay(5000);
}
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I’d have to try it out but I would think it shouldn’t work for you either.
Although, what system version are you running? It might well be that this extra layer of abstraction was introduced more recently.

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I'm using the default, 0.7.0.

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For reference I am running PARTICLE_VERSION=0.8.0-rc.4

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Can you try building against 0.7.0?

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