Weird characters on WiFi Console

Question

Device : Arduino UNO WiFi Developer Edition.

IDE: Arduino IDE 1.8.2

OS : Windows 7 64 bit

I have an issue with my Arduino device where it simply stops printing to serial and the Wifi console output is just garbage text/weird characters. Here example codes of it working and when it's not working:

WORKING

#include <UnoWiFiDevEd.h>

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop()
{
  Serial.println("Testing...");
  delay(5000);
}

NOT WORKING

#include <UnoWiFiDevEd.h>

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  Ciao.begin();
}
void loop()
{
  Serial.println("Testing...");
  delay(5000);
}

What I have tried:

• Reset
• Firmware Update
• Unplug/Replug device
• Change port
• Change board to NodeMCU or ESP8266
• Download and re-install IDE
• Reboot Laptop
• Uninstall & re-install device drivers
• Try previous Arduino Uno Wifi Dev Ed library
• Restart/Reset WiFi

Garbage text WiFi console:

Any suggestions, ideas and solutions would be great.

Answer 1

Try resetting [connectivity] parameters. Click on [CONNECTIVITY], then fill in: Server port: 1883 Client ID: arduino Client Timeout: 2

Keep Alive: 60

Topic: arduino [v] ENABLE SLIP...

Click on both [UPDATE] buttons, and ensure that parameters are registered. enter image description here