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Signal not populating on node list #889

Closed Lolagatorade closed 3 months ago

Lolagatorade commented 3 months ago

Firmware Version

2.5.0

What did you do?

Similar to the GPS issue these signal values are actually available on the device itself. Other devices running the same firmware will show it, but for some reason, my device nor my friends device shows it over the mesh network

it is erratic because my own node through Bluetooth won’t show it, but my friends will show his signal strength yet another device with the same exact hardware that I have in my same household will show the signal strength over the mesh network…

attached will be some screenshots where you can see my friend in map view can see his own location and his signal value, but on my device running the same exact operating system and firmware with everything up-to-date it is not visible

One strange thing to keep in mind is the actual signal value that does show up on his device is very suspicious as it shows zero values

Yet for my other device named plutonia, it does show a value that seems to be correct. This just comes to show the current state has a high variance on how it acts from device to device, even with the same firmware and hardware.

Take note my main device is labeled as Agroprom223. My second testing device with same exact settings and hardware is plutonia. And my friend also running same firmware but on a lilligo is skynet

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Expected Behavior

The expected behavior is on the view for everything to function in terms of populating the GPS and populating the signal values correctly and accurately.

Current Behavior

Currently from the looks of it, the signal values can be erratic in terms of showing up zero value or failed to show up completely or show up seemingly correctly from an exact hardware and firmware devices meshed.

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garthvh commented 3 months ago

The signal meter only shows on nodes you are directly connected to.

Lolagatorade commented 3 months ago

The signal meter only shows on nodes you are directly connected to.

Yes I am directly connected through Bluetooth to agroprom. And it won't show its values.

Yet it will show it for plutonia which is on the mesh and not directly connected...

Another issue is as an example. My friend is running his actual unit connected through Bluetooth, but it is showing incorrect values because it is impossible to have 0 dB for both values. He is also running the same firmware and latest updates ect

Lolagatorade commented 3 months ago

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After a reboot and reconnect it did appear. But the node list has been a bit iffy on bug hunt

Talie5in commented 3 months ago

Yes I am directly connected through Bluetooth to agroprom. And it won't show its values.

Yet it will show it for plutonia which is on the mesh and not directly connected...

I think the definition of "directly connected" is not what you are expecting here.

You wont get a signal value for "your device" you are connected to over Bluetooth, but you will for a Direct "RF/LoRa" Radio that your device can see, but not one that is 1 hop away over "RF/LoRa"

JohnathonMohr commented 2 months ago

but you will for a Direct "RF/LoRa" Radio that your device can see, but not one that is 1 hop away over "RF/LoRa"

For what it's worth, this is not the behavior I experience. I might not get a signal bar on the node list, but I always get signal strength indicators (with varying values) in the node info screen, even if the node is multiple hops away.

Lolagatorade commented 2 months ago

but you will for a Direct "RF/LoRa" Radio that your device can see, but not one that is 1 hop away over "RF/LoRa"

For what it's worth, this is not the behavior I experience. I might not get a signal bar on the node list, but I always get signal strength indicators (with varying values) in the node info screen, even if the node is multiple hops away.

Yeah same here but maybe that is due to MQTT being enabled? Because technically at that point it would be peer to peer because if I do a trace route over MQTT, some people show up as direct.

garthvh commented 2 months ago

The signal strength meter is only for directly connected nodes on both the list and details, you can not measure the signal from yourself to yourself so the Bluetooth connected node does not have a signal meter either.

JohnathonMohr commented 2 months ago

@garthvh I don't disagree with you, but at the same time I do see it for nodes I'm not directly connected to. Maybe that is its own bug 🤷‍♂️. Here's an example from the mesh map tab, where you can clearly see a node is multiple hops away, but still has a strength indicator.

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The "graph" appears in the node details tab too, but that page doesn't show hops away, so not as clearly demonstrated.

Lolagatorade commented 2 months ago

@garthvh I don't disagree with you, but at the same time I do see it for nodes I'm not directly connected to. Maybe that is its own bug 🤷‍♂️. Here's an example from the mesh map tab, where you can clearly see a node is multiple hops away, but still has a strength indicator.

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The "graph" appears in the node details tab too, but that page doesn't show hops away, so not as clearly demonstrated.

Even considering all of that, I can still see the signal strength of the device I am connected to directly through Bluetooth, so it is still confusing how one theoretically cannot see their own node unless it's reporting signal strength based on what another note reported back if that makes sense.

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