Adafruit Motor Shield and Bridge Library for Yun Shield

Question

I am using the Leonardo board with the Adafruit Motor Shield v2, 2 steppers and the Yun Shield. The yun shield and steppers all run harmoniously, however, as soon as I do Bridge.begin() and anything that accesses the Yun shield Bridge library to access the console, the steppers stop running. Is this to be expected and are there any solutions?

Thanks

Answer 1

Looking at Bridge.begin() description here you can see this is blocking function.

begin() is a blocking function. Once you call Bridge.begin(), nothing else will happen in your sketch until it has completed. This process takes approximately three seconds.