So, I am having this issue still.
I recreated a new Organization and new Group. I could manage to register/add a raspi device to that new org, which shows up as being online.
This is apparently still the same issue as #4 and #15?
The output_log.txt has sequences of:
[STATUS][TopicClient]: Reconnecting in 5 seconds.
[STATUS][TopicClient]: Connected to ws://self-factory-prod-10.mybluemix.net
[WARNING][TopicClient]: Query request 227 timed out.
[STATUS][TopicClient]: OnSocketClosed: iled to authenticate.
[STATUS][TopicClient]: Reconnecting in 5 seconds.