Josh Hawley

Thanks =)

Seems like we have hit a wall then. sounds like the sparkfun server is not responding fast enough for the timeout every time. you could just wrap the upload section in a try catch and make it loop until it works or fails 20 times. Kinda ugly, but it seems like all we have left until they fix the timeout setting.

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If you are getting "SF: " and nothing else, then ex.Message is an empty string. Try using ex.StackTrace

maybe you should spin up a separate thread when the program starts, and have it block using a manualresetevent. then when your timer fires, it just releases the thread (which runs once and then blocks again until next time)

can you post your catch block?

I'm confused as to why a try/catch does not work. Are you only catching specific types of exceptions, or are you catching them all with the base Exception?