Rand() or random() on multiple photons

[rickkas7]

This is a bug in 0.4.9 (possibly other versions). As a workaround, just paste this in your program .ino or .cpp file:

void random_seed_from_cloud(unsigned seed) {
   srand(seed);
}

Random_seed_from_cloud - Not Working?

I’m attempting to use random_seed_from_cloud() as described in the Photon documentation. However my random_seed_from_cloud() function goes not ever seem to be called. The code is as simple as this, which stores the seed in a global variables. The global never changes from 42 unsigned int g_seed = 42; void random_seed_from_cloud(unsigned int seed); void random_seed_from_cloud(unsigned int seed) { g_seed = seed; } The rest of the sketch is just code to print g_seed to the serial port. I’ve…