Some, but not all, of my photons (all running the exact same code) fall into a fast cyan blink state when I run the microwave 40 feet away, and they stay in this state seemingly forever until reset, then they are fine again. So, while I know the microwave is the trigger, some of the photons seem mor…

A lot of these issues tend to come down to power supplies and poor decoupling. How are you powering the Photon’s?

Computer’s USB port and 1 or 2A wallwarts

I wonder if there is an issue with your microwave’s shielding? It may just be blasting away any available spectrum. I would be curious to see if the RSSI for your computer drops while the microwave is running. If you wanted to get really really fancy something like this would help you see if the …

Thanks for the tips @Dave . I have an app called WiFi Analyzer on my Android phone that displays relative RSSI channel levels. I was on 6, rated the “best”, but what was displayed as best varied while running the microwave. So I tried channels 1 and 11 in turn. Even though channel 11 wasn’t rated …

So the problem in the photons (loss of cloud connection, rapid cyan blink, but generally not on the spark core) keeps intermittently occurring w/ the damn microwave, sometimes for another unknown reason. I came up with this code that seems to get the photons back in action: #include "application.h"…

@Dave I may have found my solution: [image] Photon losing Wifi Troubleshooting @DRCO , could it be a router issue?? I’m using an ASUS RT-AC56U with 5GHZ not enabled. You don’t happen to be using this model, do you? I hope I’m not speaking too soon, but I may have solved …

Microwave hardening

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bpr July 25, 2015, 10:15pm 7

@Dave I may have found my solution:

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