Battery sensor and re-connecting to gateway

[Mark Swift]

@tekka I guessed that, I thought however that you'd mentioned it would timeout, and try again later? As it stands it appears it'll keep trying until the battery is dead?

If nothing else I just want to clear up the behaviour so I fully understand it.

Thanks,

Mark

[tekka]

@Mark-Swift it does timeout, but for that you have to set MY_TRANSPORT_WAIT_READY_MS > 0. This ensures, that loop() will be entered after the timeout if the connection could not be established.

[Mark Swift]

@tekka thank you, so if I

#define MY_TRANSPORT_WAIT_READY_MS 60000

Am I right in thinking that my node will enter the loop after it tries to connect to a parent for 60 seconds and fails? (In my case it'd then sleep until the next interrupt, when I guess it would then try again for 60 seconds...).

I really appreciate your help getting my head around this :)

[tekka]

@Mark-Swift Almost :)

#define MY_TRANSPORT_WAIT_READY_MS 60000

applies only when the node starts, i.e. before entering loop(). Once you are in loop() and you put the node to sleep

#define MY_SLEEP_TRANSPORT_RECONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS 10000

defines how long the node will try to establish a connection before going to sleep, default is 10s. Please have a look here for additional information.