Loading challenges stuck in a loop?

[spasaintk]

Hi,

Thanks for making this tool! It looks very useful especially for me as a beginner in Helium.

I've deployed it at my Debian environment and I seem to be running into some sort of issues. When I am trying to refresh the challenges for my hotspot it seems to be going on without an end. Only once it finished with a message that I cannot clearly remember, but something along the lines of 'only loaded xxxx challenges'. The guide states it can take 10 minutes or longer, and seeing the entire API for Helium is rather slow I didn't find it strange if it were to take hours. So far I've left it running for over 12 hours without it finishing. I'm not sure how many challenges it's expecting to load, but it seems to be quite a lot. For one of my miners I don't see repetition in timestamps as far as I can tell, just the dates going back and forth over the last 4 days. For the other miner it seems to be caught in a loop as it keeps showing the same dates/times.

My miners are relatively new. First one was set up on the 3rd of January, and the second two days later. I am wondering if this might possibly be of issue here.

helium-analysis hotspots refresh <- works without a problem, completes in few minutes helium-analysis challenges refresh mymineraddress <- seems to go on without end helium-analysis graph mymineraddress <- seems to go on without end

I've attached a small piece of logging for the one that seems to be looping.

Might you ever want to continue to develop this tool, I also have a few suggestions :)

• Option to write output to specific directory
• Include time/date stamp in output file names
• Extra graph line to show the total amount of daily received beacons

possible loop.txt

Cheers!

[synfinatic]

which hotspot address are you querying? I tried it against mine and can't reproduce this issue.

[spasaintk]

Hi,

112NQ7NNvk2ANfztpmhvudd7CFLuQuRYbxHkBbrcLnMgT26sTigr - this one completed after a very long time now with this message:

INFO[75179] Last challenge time: 2022-01-05 20:41:38 CET WARN[75204] Only able to retrieve 95332 challenges INFO[75207] Loaded 17032 new challenges into database

The one that was looping was 112HoPsM9BBeGEYgCcccY5F52m1CeemnCD1hXMktJiEVoWWLVqrG , I'll give it a retry

Another one is 112JeiTqD5gm7xRmeQj5S4fApzfCNwmLHSxMmGSdn9ehCsFBidVJ that is a bit older one is currently still retrieving data: INFO[87222] Loaded 110600 challenges INFO[87222] Last challenge time: 2022-01-05 15:04:35 CET

Cheers,

[spasaintk]

The retry on 112HoPsM9BBeGEYgCcccY5F52m1CeemnCD1hXMktJiEVoWWLVqrG shows quite quickly same last time stamps again.

Cheers, possible loop2.txt

[synfinatic]

Should fix things: https://github.com/synfinatic/helium-analysis/releases/tag/v0.9.3

[spasaintk]

Hi,

Thanks, this works infinitely faster and better! It is now done in just a few seconds. It still errors out on the real young one, but it is successfully writing the witness-distance.png file so that is good.

INFO[0000] First database record is after 2021-12-10 06:00:00 UTC INFO[0001] Found 25 challenges for 112HoPsM9BBeGEYgCcccY5F52m1CeemnCD1hXMktJiEVoWWLVqrG INFO[0001] Loaded 0 new challenges into database ERRO[0001] Unable to generate beacons graph error="Only 4 datapoints available" INFO[0001] Created clever-sandstone-chimpanzee/witness-distance.png

One last question if I may, the graphs for the hotspots talking to each other are generated only when a hotspot has received my beacon and I have witnessed theirs, correct?

Cheers,

[synfinatic]

Correct. If there is no graph, then there weren't enough PoC events (valid or invalid) between the two hotspots.

[spasaintk]

Brilliant, thanks again!