Airlink - Disconnection Station Timeout

[davidmc36]

All I can say is that my Airlink stays connected on my MB running 6.2. I have never actually set the IP to static. But it reconnects at same address whenever it or WiFi power cycles.

I had a lot of trouble before running two WiFi systems.

Now I only have one network with the mesh nodes in bridge mode and router WiFi turned off.

ALL my devices connect better now that network is "cleaner".

Tee Hee Hee

As I say it, the bugger disconnected last night/this morning.

Just as OP says. All other things are reading it fine.

I will cycle the WiFi plug it is powered by and all will be fine.

[jasonmfarrow]

Airlink doesn't like being too far away from the AP. Is that any great distances involved?

The Airlink connection is to AP, same as the NanoSD is to the AP, there is really no direct link (as such) between the Airlink and Nano

The Airlink is the same distance to the Wifi Node as it is to the Meteobridge. Circa 8m indoors. No brick walls between.

[jasonmfarrow]

A reboot of the Airlink results in an instant reconnection to Meteobridge. Last night the log showed a drop and, 7-hrs later, a reconnect without the need to reboot the Airlink.

Thanks for giving that detail. I checked the Airlink read out code on the NANOs:

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#!/bin/sh
#
while :
do
  wget -q -t 1 -T 20 -O- "http://$2/v1/current_conditions"
  sync
  sleep 10
done

I had some issues with ambient weather IP devices in the past that also had their data readout via a HTTP GET request. The issue there was related to HTTP requests being answered slower and slower over time. I guess this was because of a memory leak in the firmware of the device. As a result the device gets more and more unresponsive on their web interface until it finally stalls. New FW helped to solve this for the ambient device.

If someone knows of a reboot command that can be issued to the Davis Airlink over HTTP, I could trigger this when wget runs into timeouts while waiting for Airlink to reply. The 20 seconds timeout in the wget code should be fine. I doubt that waiting longer will solve it.

I don't know of any way to upgrade Airlink firmware. Davis does not publish any nor any tool to do so. The App for Airlink (Weatherlink Cloud) does not have a Firmware update option nor a remote reboot option.