I probably should write something minimal yes but I'm running the exact same code on both a Waveshare ESP32-C3-Zero and a Waveshare ESP32-C6-Pico and not having any issues with them. I have started trying to catch any exceptions to storage though so hopefully that might give me a clue.

I've been using this for my boot.py any advice is appreciated:

# vim: syntax=python expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4:

import asyncio
import gc
import machine
import network
import ntptime
import os
import sys
import webrepl

network.country(networking.COUNTRY)

async def do_connect():
    wlan = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF)
    wlan.active(True)
    if not wlan.isconnected():
        wlan.connect(secrets.SSID, secrets.KEY)
        while not wlan.isconnected():
            print('Not connected')
            await asyncio.sleep(1)
    while True:
        try:
            ntptime.settime()
            break
        except OSError:
            pass
        await asyncio.sleep(1)
    print('REPL Started')
    webrepl.start()

async def main():
    try:
        await asyncio.wait_for(do_connect(), timeout=30)
    except Exception as e:
        print("Fatal error in main:")
        sys.print_exception(e)
        with open(f'{time.time()}.log}', 'a') as f:
             sys.print_exception(e, f)


asyncio.run(main())
gc.collect()

Please ignore if it's a bit rough around the edges I'd like something more concise but the WiFi issues have been causing me to try a lot of different paths to get it stable.

Hi, I'm still tinkering with this and wanted to ask, would it be worth implementing the connection to wifi in boot.py with asyncio to make it more robust? (Question is open to anyone of course)

In general code should not be put in boot.py because this file runs before MicroPython is fully initialised. User code should go in main.py if it is to run on power up - although debugging is easier if the application lives in its own module. Only when fully debugged is main.py written containing a single statement to import the module.

That sounds like a good idea, I do wish MicroPython handled the WiFi portion a bit better though so I wasn't having to write so much code for it in the first place. The Network Basics tutorial also mentions putting a connect function in boot.py as well which is what I have been expanding off of.