From what I can tell right after I try and initialize my particle agent it seems to drop my connectivity altogether; I will assume this is because particle automatically seizes control of all the I/O pins? Is there any way to stop this from happening on pins that are needed for my wifi connectivity to work?
Have you considered getting a Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless? It’s only $10 and it works considerably well with Particle.
are you using redbear hat?
Yes dkryder.
And nrobinson; I already have the RPI zero and hat, so I don’t feel like spending more right now… And also they’re impossible to find.
an issue similar was reported in dec.
maybe newer firmware has fixed the issue, i don't know.
I’ve already tried getting to most recent, etc and have been through 6 iterations of trying.
Based on the discussion here, I’m planning on changing the behavior of the pin initialization on the Raspberry Pi. Thanks for the feedback!
Somewhat problematic for me, since my rpi zero is a truely headless build so once the network goes down I can’t do anything.
But I moved onto using a photon instead.