Device seems to be weird about saving variables such as wifi credentials and printer settings. Seems to be technically working now though. Perhaps there's just a longer wait between saving to flash? Log show "preferences" being saved pretty timely though.

Author: agreenbhm

firmware/conf.d/logger.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 logger:
-  level: INFO
+  level: DEBUG
   logs:
     sensor: WARN
     pn532: INFO
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ logger:
     mqtt: INFO
     mqtt.component: INFO
     mqtt.client: INFO
-    wifi: VERBOSE
+    wifi: DEBUG
     wifi_esp32: WARN
     esp-tls: WARN
     esp-tls-mbedtls: WARN

firmware/conf.d/wifi.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ---
 wifi:
+  id: openspool_wifi
   ap:
     ssid: "OpenSpool"
     password: "OpenSpool"

firmware/rpipicow.yaml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ esphome:
     platform_packages:
       - framework-arduinopico @ https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico.git
     board_build.filesystem_size: 0.5m
-    
+
 rp2040:
   board: rpipicow
   framework:
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ rp2040_mqtt:
   mqtt_user: bblp
   mqtt_pass: ""
 
+# I don't know why this part seems to be necessary for the device to retain the wifi credentials, but it does.
+globals:
+  - id: global_wifi_ssid
+    type: std::string
+    restore_value: yes
+  - id: global_wifi_password
+    type: std::string
+    restore_value: yes
+
 mqtt: !remove
 
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