Thanks for your reply. I did so a number of times. I also just attempted to get MQTT to work and I cannot get the android client to connect to the server. The process seems straightforward enough. I have no idea what is going on.

Hello,

I've had some serious difficulties with connecting to Losant and running the following code

Class LosantDoor
 
 
    // Device ID of Peripheral in Losant
    Const LosantDeivceId As String = "594445eb57dcc600060018d5"
    // MQTT topic in Losant
    Const LosantTopic As String = "losant/" + LosantDeivceId + "/state"
 
    Shared _doorState As String
    Shared _doorcount As Integer
 
    Shared Event Boot()
        _doorState = "Open"
        _doorcount = 0
    End Event
 
    Shared Event ReedSwitchChanged()
        'debounce interrupt
        Thread.Sleep(100000)
        Thread.ClearHardwareEvent()
        LedRed = True
        If ReedSwitch = True Then
            _doorState = "Open"   
            _doorcount = _doorcount + 1
        Else
            _doorState = "Closed"
        End If
        sendMQTTData()
        LedRed = False
    End Event
 
    Shared Event CheckSensors() RaiseEvent Every 60 Seconds
        sendMQTTData()
    End Event
 
    Private Sub sendMQTTData()
        Dim tempTMP102string As String = TempSensor.GetTemp().ToString()
        Dim battShort As Short = Device.BatteryVoltage()
        Dim battFloat As Float = battShort / 1000
        Dim battString As String = battFloat.ToString()
 
 
        // Create data JSON object
        Dim dataJson As Json = New Json
        dataJson.Add("battery", battString)
        dataJson.Add("temperature", tempTMP102string)
        dataJson.Add("doorState", _doorState)
        dataJson.Add("doorCount", _doorcount)
 
 
        // Create Losant preferred JSON object
        Dim losantPayload As Json = New Json
        losantPayload.Add("data", dataJson)
 
        // Publish to Losant MQTT
        Lplan.Publish(LosantTopic, losantPayload.ToListOfByte)
 
    End Sub
 
End Class
I did everything listed in the "Getting started with MC-Things and Losant" guide and could not get the gateway or mc-module to connect to Losant. I tried it on both my home network and mobile hotspot. For both the gateway and module it says "Awaiting first connection to Losant".

Any tips?

I just updated my firmware to v.8-415 and I can no longer connect to the module via the gateway (Tried probably 50 times and waited as long as 300 seconds). I also can no longer find the gateway nor the module with the Mcdongle. Anyone have any suggestions?