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Mine has no connect rows at all, only changes. The device is an SNMP box.

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uMQTTBroker works, I ran it for a while. No TLS, and it fell over at about 8 clients for me.

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Fast blink means not connected. Once they link you get two quick blinks every couple of seconds.

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I use a DevKitC board with a WROOM-32E on it for everything at home, plug in USB and go.

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Replied to Cheapest way to get a PoE-powered board reporting from my workshop

Hermetry doesn't care, it only sees a TLS connection on 8883 (or HTTPS on 443). Ethernet or WiFi is invisible to it. For one…

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Same goes for 32-bit values split over two registers, then you also have to get the word order right. Fun times.

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Replied to Serial console to my Pi gateway shows escape codes instead of colours and htop is a mess

TERM was vt220, exactly. With the bashrc block it's colours and a full-width htop over serial now. I also added Eric's tip, the service…

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Replied to Serial console to my Pi gateway shows escape codes instead of colours and htop is a mess

Same thing in picocom from my Linux box, I tried.

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