add a test network command

ArcticSnow commented 5 years ago

add a command in the interactive menu to try sending a dummy frame to the server to test if whether or not there is direct connection.

johnhulth commented 5 years ago

I think we have this for Iridium and 4G, should also be implemeted for Xbee.

jdavid commented 5 years ago

Actually we've it for Iridium and XBee, but not for 4G.

jdavid commented 5 years ago

Actually we already had 4g test. I have removed 4g test, and now ping does what 4g test did.

So now the ping command works for the 3 networks. Though it does not exactly the same:

xbee: sends a package to the Pi, the package is discarded by the Pi, it doesn't reach the server. This code is also used by the rssimap sketch.
4G: doesn't send a package, it tests the network connectivity and prints some info (network type, operator, rssi).
Iridium: sends a package to Iridium. Data from Iridium is not yet imported in the database, when done we will probably discard the ping package, like we do with xbee's ping.

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