Well I did sit down and write an app to run on the Pi and monitor connectivity. After a lot of searching and several tries of various methods to restart the network, it appears that for my purposes at this point, is to have the pi reboot if it looses connection since that has worked every time. I did have of a restart wifi connection version working for a while, but at some point the Pi4 didn’t reconnect after after it tried many times. While I’d like to reset the wifi over doing a reboot, there just seems to be too many variables as to what method works and when. So for now, reboot it is.
have you updated the pi firmware and up to date librarys too?
I have not done a firmware update. I do run the normal updates that the OS reports. I’ll check and do the firmware updates and make sure everything else is updated.
Thanks!
I just did some checking and found this:
For most users, you should not routinely run “rpi-update” on a Raspberry Pi 4 as it is generally considered unnecessary and can potentially introduce instability; only use it if you need the absolute latest firmware features and are comfortable with the potential risks of potential bugs or hardware compatibility issues; most updates are handled through standard “apt update” and “apt upgrade” commands which are much safer.
I don’t think I’ll do this right now.