Rpi Zero W questions

[bledd]

Hi,

How reliable / stable is the WIFI on these?

Looking to make a temperature logging project, where we have around 200+ of these (each near a Unifi wireless point) to log temperatures say once every 30 minutes.

Is the WIFI pretty good at reconnecting on a Rpi Zero W with no user input if the access point was off for a few hours, then turned back on?

Due to the locations of them, hard wiring each one is far more unfeasable than simply connecting to the WIFI network.

 

[Feek]

I have a bunch of Pi Zero Ws here doing various things. When I first got them, I had them all running by WiFi and didn't experience any issues with them connecting to my Unifi APs but then I never ever switched the APs off and back on again. Over time, I wired them all.

I do appreciate that's not a very useful reply but at the very least, I can confirm that a handful of them never failed to connect to WiFi and never dropped out.

 

[Caged]

Even if the adapter doesn’t reconnect automatically out of the box, it shouldn’t be too tricky to write a simple script to attempt to connect to a probe endpoint, and disable/enable the Wi-Fi if there’s a problem, then schedule it with cron.

Eg https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dweeber/WiFi_Check/master/WiFi_Check