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 …

Random_seed_from_cloud - Not Working?

Jerware January 25, 2016, 2:01am 10

I’m having the same issue. Any chance this is fixed in the upcoming 0.4.9 firmware @mdma?

Random number generator not initialized?

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