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Embedded systems
November 30, 2025 8 min

The furnace controller that deadlocked when the WiFi dropped

An RP2040 furnace controller would freeze at random, always when the WiFi dropped. The culprit was a connectivity probe that opened a TCP connection to decide whether it could open one. A timeout would have hidden it; removing the probe fixed it.

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