Nicla Vision - Wifi without USB cable?

Official Hardware Nicla Family Nicla Vision
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First I will confess, I am a noob. I have successfully installed OpenPV and connected the Nicla vision for streaming images following this tutorial: https://docs.arduino.cc/tutorials/nicla-vision/live-streaming/

Everything is working well.... but I'm not "getting it". What I want to do is to start gathering training images of my test environment to develop a machine learning model... however I'd like to do that over Wifi, with my laptop in my comfy office and the Nicla Vision communicating over Wifi so I can record what it is seeing to create training data. One of the application examples of this tutorial is "Monitor industrial processes", so I would think this is a reasonable expectation.

My confusion stems from the fact that while yes, the Nicla Vision is connected to WIFI, (I can see the stream on my phone), it stills needs first to be connected to my laptop via a USB cable to do anything... so how is this stream useful? How can I ditch the USB cable and send a stream without being connected by USB and connected to OpenMV?

So I guess my question is this: how can I get the board to connect to Wifi, stream images to OpenMV without being connected to my laptop first? I think I'm missing something quite fundamental here! Do I need to give up on this approach and try to get a long USB cable connected between my board and the test environment?

Thanks in advance!

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I have never used MicroPython, so I apologize in advance if I'm wrong.

In Linux system, standard output is buffered I/O, so if a connection to the output destination is not established, the buffer will become clogged and program execution will be blocked.

Therefore, I recommend either commenting out all print statements, or redirecting standard output to /dev/null as described here:

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Thanks. My issue seems to be related to my Laptop's security settings, or to my Wifi connection. I know this becuase the board can connect and broadcast to my phone when using the phone hotspot. I'm unsure which. I've configured my Wifi to use only 802.11 N, and still the problem persists. I've needed to move on. Hope this might help someone else.