My weather station starts dropping packet after 1 week of use...

[hek]

I don't have super much experience with the Mega2650.. The only thing I've noticed with the one I got is that the 3v3 power rail is really bad. So I got really strange issues when trying to power radio from it. Had to use a step down from 5V and decouple it.

Would it be hard to test your setup on a vanilla radio? Or is the distance too far?

[doblanch]

@hek My antenna is powered externally directly in 3.3V with 4.7uF...
What is vanilla radio ? distance is 5m, but a big ceiling is in between...

[hek]

@doblanch said:

What is vanilla radio ?

One of these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/170819069271?rmvSB=true

[doblanch]

@hek ok :-) Yes of course, I tried, it doesn't work...ceiling is really too thick !
12H03 - 12H23 We can see clearly the drops... :-( and I have st=fail.
I resend packet based on st=fail, but resend is dropped also

[sundberg84]

I think it will try to find parent even though you have it set to 0 (if it fails).
I might be wrong, but this is something i notised in an older version.

[doblanch]

@sundberg84 I use the last version (I guess nov 2015).
@hek it can be the case ? trying to use another route.
There is no other route available normally. I have disable repeater mode on all powered sensor.
Could it be a bad NRF24 ? is there a brand well-kwown really trusted ?

[hek]

I don't think it should search...
https://github.com/mysensors/Arduino/blob/master/libraries/MySensors/MySensor.cpp#L463

But you might wanna try the development branch anyway to see if you notice any difference.

[doblanch]

@hek

@hek said:

I don't think it should search...
https://github.com/mysensors/Arduino/blob/master/libraries/MySensors/MySensor.cpp#L463

But you might wanna try the development branch anyway to see if you notice any difference.

I can try at the next occurence... as I have no more idea... I think that code is clean, and problem is rather on the NRF. Maybe a starvation of something after a while, I don't know. difficult to say.
btw, you didn't answer my question, is there a trusted NRF/PA/LNA seller, with a tested NRF24 tested by you, and working at it should ?

[hek]

@doblanch said:

btw, you didn't answer my question, is there a trusted NRF/PA/LNA seller,

I cannot make any guarantees. But ITead should sell the genuine thing.

[doblanch]

@hek said:

@doblanch said:

btw, you didn't answer my question, is there a trusted NRF/PA/LNA seller,

I cannot make any guarantees. But ITead should sell the genuine thing.

it was my assumption too ...
If I enable debug, will it provide me more info about communication ?