AMS AS3935 Franklin Lightning Sensor | error Disturber was detected - try increasing the spike rejection value!

[Luc3as]

Operating environment/Installation (Hass.io/Docker/pip/etc.):

Hassio on docker, ESPhome 1.14.3 ESP (ESP32/ESP8266, Board/Sonoff):

Wemos d1 mini Affected component:

https://esphome.io/components/sensor/as3935.html

Description of problem:

Problem-relevant YAML-configuration entries:

as3935_i2c:
  irq_pin: D6
  spike_rejection: 2
  indoor: false

Logs (if applicable):

[14:48:15][I][as3935:041]: Disturber was detected - try increasing the spike rejection value!
[14:48:15][I][as3935:041]: Disturber was detected - try increasing the spike rejection value!
[14:48:15][I][as3935:041]: Disturber was detected - try increasing the spike rejection value!
14:48:22][W][i2c:073]: Received NACK on transmit of data for address 0x03
[14:48:22][W][as3935_i2c:029]: Read failed!
[14:48:15][I][as3935:041]: Disturber was detected - try increasing the spike rejection value!

Additional information and things you've tried: I have SDA at D4 and SCL at D5, This is the same issue as https://github.com/esphome/issues/issues/890 I tried to upload example sketch from this https://github.com/stevemarple/AS3935 With default settings, I just changed i2c pins, I was able to run the sketch and trigger the sensor with piezo from lighter, here is output from sketch, these are the reg settings from sensor. with Esphome sketch I was not able to trigger the sensor even If I changed indoor to false.

[Luc3as]

Confirmed, today was nice storm with loads of near strokes, with indoor false parameter it is not throwing errors, but it is not working either

[B-Kramer]

I tried setting this up and had the same problem, I even tried powering it by a battery in an open field and got the same "disturber detected" warning no matter what I did for noise floor and spike rejection.

[edwardscaleb9]

Same for me. Disturber detected constantly no matter what I put for noise floor, spike rejection, or capacitance. I'm using an Olimex ESP32-PoE. I've tried the IRQ pin on GPIO4 and GPI36 with the same results.

[Luc3as]

I contacted supplier from AlieExpress, if they have a clue what could cause this. I got reply from them with some libraries I should try, problem is it is compatible with arduino only, It would need to change some parts of code like ISR routines, which is doable, but to be honest I have no time to test it even with arduino. If someone find a few minutes and spare arduino, I am attaching archive they sent me. FZ3480-AS3935-lighting-detector.zip

[Veldkornet]

Same issue for me. Indoor: false stops all of the messages, but it doesn’t seem to collect any lightning data either, always “unknown”

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[Yersi88]

I have same problem: Disturber was detected - try increasing the spike rejection value!

I tried trigger the module with lighter piezo but the entities stay in "unknown" state and storm alarm is always "off"

Anyone knows fix?

[nmatt25]

I am having this problem also ... has a fix been found yet