battery powered sensor / watchdog?
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Yes I understand. It is hard to find the cause in these cases. Do you have the possibility to move the node closer to the gateway or add a repeater to see if the problem persists?
Edit: or hookup the serial monitor, but place the node inside somewhere :-) -
I have definitely thought of throwing a repeater in the room closest to where it is outside. That could definitely help. Can't move it closer since it's a temp sensor in my pool lol.
Wonder if i made a connector out of rj45 if it would work over that length to something inside :)
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just the sensor. Node is in box outside of the pool.
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Put an esp wifi node in the box with a beefier battery, or another box next to the first one if it isn't large enough. There is an "esp bridge" app that can easily do serial monitoring over wifi. That way you should have console output from the node when ot craps out. I've used it to debug some app that controls some contactors via a 5v relay board, turning contactors off sent the w5500 to Valhalla, the debug output via the esp saved the day since the device is located in a cielling a few meters up.
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This is a cool idea. Definitely worth throwing some bigger batteries at it for debugging. I am looking for this bridge stuff now :)
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This is a cool idea. Definitely worth throwing some bigger batteries at it for debugging. I am looking for this bridge stuff now :)
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Where do you put your enable/disable watchdog? My node sleeps for 90 minutes at a time. Do you mean like a voltage booster? no, but i am monitoring the battery voltage so i know when it gets close to the 3.3 that the radio needs.
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Im using an 18650. currently it's sitting around 3.9v.
Do you have a link to the proper "mysensors" way of handling watch dog? Im not opposed to trying it. Especially if it gets hung up trying to do something then maybe the WDT while it's awake may help.
