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    • frapell

      My rPi gateway suddenly stopped working, no idea what else to try...
      Troubleshooting • • frapell  

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      ejlane

      mfalkvidd gave you a great link, but if you ever need to see any possible choices, you can run ./configure --help and it will show you. The extra flags section is one thing (of many) that it says. Actually, this is very timely for me, as I'm trying to troubleshoot my own radio issues, so I'll use those extra two flags that you mentioned and see what they say. Thank you!
    • frapell

      Having problems with RFM69HW in Raspberry Pi
      Troubleshooting • • frapell  

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      Constantin Petra

      @frapell I am having the same issue with Raspberry PI zero W, I get an awful range (less than 2 meters) with the default build values. It seems the default power setting for RFM69HCW are 5dB. Also, for RPI Zero W it seems the 3.3V pin supplies only 50mA and I have also added an extra 3.3V regulator (should not be the case for RPI3+). I have now compiled the gateway using the following and got a better range indoors: ./configure --my-transport=rfm69 --my-rfm69-frequency=915 --my-is-rfm69hcw --my-gateway=mqtt --my-controller-ip-address=192.168.1.41 --my-mqtt-publish-topic-prefix=mysensors-out --my-mqtt-subscribe-topic-prefix=mysensors-in --my-mqtt-client-id=mygateway1 --extra-cxxflags="-DMY_RFM69_MAX_POWER_LEVEL_DBM=20 -DMY_RFM69_TX_POWER_DBM=20 -DMY_DEBUG_VERBOSE_RFM69" Look for "LEVEL" in the logs to check that the power level is the correct one. I don't know how mysensors handles the power range (expected to see it increasing it by itself no answers, but I could not get it working otherwise). Maybe it helps. Best Regards, Costa