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Thanks for the response! I got it to work using that link. I'm not sure I should have responded since it's in the wrong forum but I wanted thank you for all your activity on these forums.

I'm getting terrible range from this module: https://www.amazon.com/Hilitchi-Channel-Wireless-Transmitter-Receiver/dp/B018G0M3L4 I've tried various antennas half wavelength, quarter wavelength, spiral, straight, etc. I get consistent results inside about 10 feet and it sometimes works out to about 1...

I have the following program running, but I would like the value of the trackerCounter variable to be saved when the power is lost. I found this for the microBit but I'm not sure if it would work on the esp8266 or how to best implement it. https://support.microbit.org/support/solutions/articles/1900...

Forgive me for posting this again as a new topic. Ok…I’m still struggling. The program will send both a help request and an emergency request. Where it gets weird is when you make 5 consecutive activations of combinations of help and emergency requests. I’ve tried these combinations: Help, help, hel...

Ok…I’m still struggling. The program will send both a help request and an emergency request. Where it gets weird is when you make 5 consecutive activations of combinations of help and emergency requests. I’ve tried these combinations: Help, help, help, help, help Emergency, help, help, help, help He...

Ahhhh....OK...I will see what I can do about that this evening. Thanks for helping this newb learn!!

I was thinking that but the emergency one works. Is that an interrupt?

Someday I will have to figure out how to install uasyncio and your aswitch modules. I think you are probably right about the long press, but I was struggling on how to get those modules working. So I figured out how to postpone the helpRequest function like you suggested. The program is working for ...

Ok...thanks to pythoncoder I got a working program, but I'm having urequests issues again. The post under emergencyRequest works fine but the posts under helpRequest just pauses for a second or two and then the function completes. It seems like it is trying to send it but it doesn't go through. I've...

I read your information and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. Would uasyncio help in this situation? I'm a psychologist in a school system and we have several students with behavior issues that flip out (technical term) and get aggressive when their teacher calls the office for assistance....