Redox W 2.0 working intermittently

[ChrisMcD1]

Hello,

I've been working on my Redox Wireless 2.0 for the past several months. It's certainly been a journey. I didn't want to make a Github issue if I could avoid it since most of them seem to be solved by somebody coming back and saying that they soldered it correctly.

Today I finally got my first keystrokes out of my redox after swapping out my arduino for a fresh one, but then it randomly stopped working! Since then I have had it successfully run on two machines, but then stop working once I power off the transmitter boards. Since this happened on the second machine, I have been unable to get any keystrokes out of the system. I've tried restarting my computer and even re-flashed the arduino and the 3 YJ-14105's.

The only other sign I have that something is wrong is that the battery life on my coin cell batteries has been surprisingly low. Earlier today a battery that I put in a month ago was practically dead and reading 2.3V. I've checked all of the adjacent pins on the YJ-14015's on the transmitter boards to check for shorts and I didn't find any. I'm thinking that it's possible that the transmitters spent a month constantly on trying to connect to the receiver board and never finding it, so that drained the battery faster than the estimated battery consumption? For the record, I am using the 3D printed case.

Has anyone ever seen behavior similar to this where the transmitters will not reconnect after being power off?

EDIT: I've attached some photos of my boards to see if they can provide any valuable information.

[aweiland]

I'm having the same issue as well. It randomly worked once, but it hasn't worked since.