Wifi device intermitant connecting

Depends on the router logging; a 'professional' router will log much more than an ISP freebie.

Example of Draytek router logging every user logon durations:

Owain

Is this a commercial beast or some Arduino thing you've built etc from a design?

If the latter, I'd be surprised if there isn't a facility, while a PC is connected and running the Arduino IDE, to run the 'terminal'utility which monitors activity. Generally, those who write SW, will, for example, 'print' to the terminal:

Connecting to Wifi Connected to Wifi Sending data Data sent

etc

It may be worth looking at the design notes and checking.

Brian Reay pretended :

Its a homebuilt github design using a WeBos D1.

I can connect to the unit via USB and PUTTY, but I cannot connect to it in normal operation at the moment when on battery, because the usb's 5v would damage it back feeding. I just need to remove components to try PUTTY during normal operation.

I only built it yesterday, so I was reluctant to start carving it up until I knew it was working.

My main router in the loft runs OpenWRT, and the device is showing in its log. The device is set at the moment to connect to my secondary router on the ground floor and upload its data every 60 seconds. In the main routers log I can see it doing 'something' every 61 seconds, but I cannot copy and paste from the log.

These are the log entries for the device... DHCPDISCOVER DHCPOFFER DHCPREQUEST DHCPPACK

Does that suggest it might be trying to connect to a remote website and succeeding, or failing?

on 20/05/2020, Brian Reay supposed :

Its an iSpindel. The beasty floats inside a sort of test tube, with the Webos, gyroscope, temperature sensor, charger and a LiPo. The angle it floats at, is dependent on the SG, which it then reports as data via wifi, to a website.

There are several websites able to display the data, but my head is bursting trying to get any of them working, plus trying to decide whether the problem is the data not being sent to sites, or me not configuring the sites properly.

I bit the bullet and carved the back feed components off the WeBos PCB.

This is the relevant output of PUTTY, each time it wakes up each minute to send a fresh batch of data...

It is supposed to be connecting to the Ubidots website, the site seems to be suggesting that you just tell it I am using an iSpindel and it will do the rest. I have changed the 'token', for obvious reasons...

calling Ubidots {"tilt":83.74638,"temperature":24.375,"battery":4.087591,"gravity":30.41856,"interval":60,"RSSI":-70} Sender: Ubidots posting POST /api/v1.6/devices/Ispindel?token=BBFF-BOVvWDe84RjfbUG8Ds???9???fFlIl HTTP/1.1 Host: things.ubidots.com User-Agent: ESP8266 Connection: close Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 101

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 12:08:16 GMT Content-Type: application/json Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: close Allow: GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS Vary: Origin, Cookie

d1 {"battery": [{"status_code": 201}], "gravity": [{"status_code": 201}], "interval": [{"status_code": 201}], "rssi": [{"status_code": 201}], "temperature": [{"status_code": 201}], "tilt": [{"status_code": 201}]}

Harry Bloomfield, Esq. submitted this idea :

Sorted!

The main website I was working with Ubidots, had graphics and text so large the resolution of the laptop I was using was not able to display all of the settings. It simply needed me to scroll around more on the page, to set it up to receive the data and display it.

A PICNIC problem then.