Messages drop, messed topology?
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I'm trying to improve my nrf24 network range, that currently is worse than shit (in good manners) and I'm having really strange issues that I think could not be related to radio power.
For testing I have an esp8266 gateway (pa+lna,isolated+dedicated power), a custom power meter on steroids (regular nrf, good dedicated power) that has been connected for months and then one board that I wanted to use for a met station (regular nrf & phone batt powered, design from oh.io).
I'm using the 108 channel to avoid interference from some time ago and before I could not make work anything.
The power node is at clear sight at, say 7 meters. Gw at the ceiling of a "balcony" second floor, PwMeter in a wall at the lower floor. was working with no problems.
The met station I can't separate to a meter from the gw that it doesn't sync. I tried swapping radios, isolation and antenna mods without success. Other nodes seemed to have similar problems. Even my garage door controller that runs a good power source and pa+lna It can't communicate only through a floor.
That's one problem.So I thought of using a mysRGBW node as a repeater for the met station and I put it on the next room. Then the met.station linked, but the power meter not. So I powered all down and removed the new aggregations and left gw+power.meter. Now it seems like pm tries to register to the network, but the gw it's loosing messages. Looses half of the presentation and then the node halts. When it succeeds, it regularly misses some SET messages. I realized that it survives the presentation when domoticz is not started and those hearbeat messages are not around.
What those things can be caused?
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@sergio-rius said in Messages drop, messed topology?:
I'm using the 108 channel
I personally have bad experience with channels above say 100, on some clones.
I would advise you to stay below 100.A bad performing radio is worse than some WiFi interference.
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@yveaux Thanks! Good point. I'll first give another go to the scanner and try with a lower channel.
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If anyone is interested, that was my channel scan when I decided to migrate to 108
Starting Poor Man's Wireless 2.4GHz Scanner ... 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WRWRaWRWRRWRWRWRRWR. .... | 28 | ..RRRWWWWWWWWRWRWWWWR....::::...:----:...::::................ ....... ........ | 30 | ..RWRWRRRaWaWRRRaWaRR. . ...... | 28 |0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 |
And that's the worse I get today:
|012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345| | . aRaRRRWRWaa .. | 28 | .RRaRWWWWRRR | 26 | WRWWWWWRWWW . | 25 | RRWWWWRRRWR | 24 | :WWWWRRRWWW | 25 | ....WWWRWRRWWa . | 25 | :WWWWRWWWW- | 27 | +WWWRWWWWWR | 25 | WWRRRWWWWRR . .. | 25 | ....aWRWRWRRRRR.... | 26 | ..:.RWRRWWWWRRW.:.. | 30 | ... . ... ..... :...+WRRRRaRWWW.... ... .. .. .. .. | 29 | :...WWWWRaaRRaW-:.. .. | 32 | RWWRRRRRWWR | 27
I'm using a new device so still I may have something to adjust in the scanner as I don't get the band being so clean. I've changed the old wifi AP for an ubiquity thou.