I swear I had done this in the past but now I can’t find it. I want to be able to use a switch on an input to keep the Photon from connecting to the cloud. The WiFi access is not great in that location, and it’s not needed for daily operation, but I want to be able to easily have someone turn it b…

I found this thread that gave me the answers I seek.. [image] Photon operation w/o cloud connection Troubleshooting Using a Photon without Wi-Fi In its default configuration (system mode AUTOMATIC without system threading), the Photon requires a Wi-Fi connection to operate…

I would always have SYSTEM_THREAD(ENABLED); Then for 1. SYSTEM_MODE(MANUAL) or SYSTEM_MODE(SEMI_AUTOMATIC); and don’t call WiFi.on(); or WiFi.connect(); etc. and it stays offline. You need to accept that Particle.variable() and Particle.function() will not work and that certain system calls need to…

Using a input to control wifi

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turbo2ltr March 25, 2020, 1:40am 2

I found this thread that gave me the answers I seek..

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Using a input to control wifi

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