Hi all,
I want to build a LORA mesh in Germany for communication purpose. We are looking for a good technology for 2-3 router. The WisBlock with RAK4630 was recommended, I got two and started the power measurements. All looks good, the consumption seems to be below 5mA, much better than the T-Beam.
For setting the RAK4630 up I did the following steps: installed newest Meshtastic firmware (firmware-rak4631_5005-1.2.59.d81c1c0.uf2) by dropping it into the finder window of the device, pairing device to Android meshtastic app, changing name of device, setting the channel to that I used with my T-beams.
My problem is the following, when started the first time after these settings, the communication with another Android phone (connected to a t-beam) worked fine, all messages were received and I was able to send messages, all as expected. But after several minutes, the device is still visible and can be connected via BL, but no messages go through. I restarted device, no effect. I also newly installed the meshtastic firmware, no effect.
I read out the settings (which I haven’t changed) via CLI, maybe this might help you to see the problem:
Owner: Router_ba46 (Rtr)
Preferences: { “positionBroadcastSecs”: 240, “sendOwnerInterval”: 15, “phoneTimeoutSecs”: 900, “lsSecs”: 300, “region”: “EU865”, “locationShare”: “LocEnabled”, “gpsUpdateInterval”: 240, “positionFlags”: 35, “isAlwaysPowered”: true }
Does anyone know, what the cause of this problem might be? Hope it is only a bad setting, maybe go for sleep forever after 300 seconds, or something like this…
Best, Christian