Random number generator not seeded

[Raelx]

Yeah this bug was identified 3 years go on Photon and apparently never fixed, details at the end of the thread linked below on how to get a good seed, apparently one of the chips has an RNG on it. I have confirmed this works on Argon.

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…