Hi @omumbare
I wouldn’t expect this to be caused by not connecting the wake and busy lines to the host, but please try connecting them to see if it changes behaviour.
Do you have a Linux based HaLow device available which can be configured for the same region? I’d like to verify the AP is beaconing.
For extra debugging, you can turn up the logging of morselib by setting MMLOG_LEVEL_DEFAULT=MMLOG_LEVEL_DBG in halow/components/morselib/CMakeLists.txt. Note that this will likely fail to compile as it will look for some functions (mm_hexdump) that haven’t been implemented yet in esp-halow. See SDK Internal Logging with Zephyr - #2 by ajudge for an implementation that you can pull in.