Is there anything stored on Gateway's EEPROM? Include sensor issue.

[MatrixIII]

Also, before I re-flashed both gateway and sensor, I played with Humidity, Door/Window switch, Light Relay.
I removed all these devices from Vera and restarted.
Then I cleared only the sensor EEPROM and flashed with Humidity sensor again.
When added to Vera, it found 2 Repeaters and 1 Door/Window switch (not Humidity) which makes me believe some ID's are somewhere getting cached.

[hek]

The com failures has nothing to do with Vera/routing. You must solve them first. Try some other powersource/cap size/type.

[MatrixIII]

Thanks, that helps to know that radios are not connecting to each other. I understand they are two different issues and sorry for merging them in the same thread. This all worked pretty good a couple of days ago. I will try other power supply. Come to think of it, I believe I added the capacitors later and it was working better before adding the capacitors. What other cap size I can try? - sorry I am a newbie here. Is the goal to see if the radio has a stable close to 3.3v using a multi-meter? - I am just not sure how to test if its any better (radio stability).

[hek]

I have a pack of different sizes... I usually just test some other size and sometimes switch to a ceramic variant when I see communication failures on my sensors.

But unfortunately I have no oscilloscope to be able to make a fully correct selection. Trial and horror ;)

[MatrixIII]

Thanks. I have ordered some higher uF capacitors and will Test with those when they arrive tomorrow and report my results.

[MatrixIII]

I tried with several.Up to 100uf it didn't help. The next uf up I had 330uf and that worked. Well it now works 95% of the times. I don't know if that high of the capatience will cause issues but it mostly works now.

[RJ_Make]

@MatrixIII Wow that a pretty large cap.. Are these low ESR caps? If not, you may want to pick up a few in various sizes to see if you can get to 99%

[MatrixIII]

I bought the 4.7 uF using the link on the store here. The others I have bought from here http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZG71H4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[m26872]

Am I the only one experiencing success when using delays in the node software before sending radio messages? Even a hardware guy like me prefer that before starting to change caps.

delay(500);
gw.begin(...
delay(100);
gw.sendSketchInfo(...
delay(100);
gw.present(...

delay(100);
gw.send(...

delay(100);
gw.sendBatteryLevel(....

[BulldogLowell]

@m26872

kind of averse to using blocking code that way... I have used delay() in my setup() functions like that... for the first time I set up the devices.... The caps are really there for the day-to-day reliability of the radio. It is a power hungry little bugger.

You could also do something like this so that you didn't have the delays there once you had the devices set up in vera...

//...
#define FIRST_TIME_SETUP
//...
//...
#ifdef FIRST_TIME_SETUP
#define SETUP_DELAY 500
#else 
#define SETUP_DELAY 0
#endif


void setup()
{
  delay(SETUP_DELAY);
  gw.begin(...
  delay(SETUP_DELAY);
  gw.sendSketchInfo(...
  delay(SETUP_DELAY);
  gw.present(...
  delay(SETUP_DELAY);
}
void loop()
{
  
}