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This is the fault of MIT App Inventor. When dragged, the slider control sends a dense, continuous stream of HTTP GET requests and then registers errors if every single one of them doesn't receive a complete response.

Proper solution is to either:

1. throttle the number of HTTP GET requests sent to a reasonable number, smoothing the changes to the slider control value. There is no way to implement this in App Inventor. App would need to be rebuilt in Android Studio.
2. send UDP packets that don't require HTTP processing or response. This is the better option, however, MIT App Inventor's web client does not support direct TCP connections of any type. App would need to be rebuilt in Android Studio.

We calculate proper sunrise/sunset times at boot, but they are not refreshed after a new day kicks over. This means if the sculpture is left on for months auto on/off times will slowly drift out of sync. This isn't really a major issue, as we turn on an hour before sunset and turn off an hour after sunrise. This means the sculpture would have to remain on and never rebooted across enough weeks such that the day lengthens by 2 full hours.

Workaround is simply to toggle the power switch on the sculpture one time.

It would be nice to be able to have a "controllerMon" service on flit that makes sure the serial<->wifi bridge was able to obtain an IP and is connected to the router and, if not, cycle the power to the bridge and router to reset them.