Farmbot OS Disconnects and reconnects

[Klimbim]

@connor

There was a bug in the version of wpa_supplicant Farmbot OS uses relating to the Raspberry Pi’s wifi chip driver. (brcmf_mac) along with FarmBot not being properly notified when disconnected. (that is disconnected from the access point)

Could that explain:
a) the disconnect that I just needed to cycle power on the bot?

b) to reconnect the farmbots wlan and reconfigure it?

@connor

The exact reason is being logged, it will just never make it to the backend services since FarmBot is disconnected. This is why i built the feature to capture all previous logs.

@connor

There is also a bug in that after a reconnect, those logs will never actually make it back to the backend services. Rick and I have been working on a solution for this, but it is actually a really complex issue not just limited to logging.

Which is not a problem for the moment being, I could diassemble the SD card for such an event. I appreciate that you are working on a longterm solution!

@connor

Farmbot has a huge disadvantage that a user can only indirectly communicate with Farmbot. (IE it needs to be connected to the network, and a user needs to be connected to a network etc) It is similar to ChromeCast, or similar devices. Unfortunately we don’t have the same development team that Google has

No problem @connor, we are working on this as a community. Its just frustrating if you cannot do anything to fix those disconnect problems and thus if you really (sadly just) want to use the FB to water while you´re away…

Is this solved through the SSH connection? Could we connect to it in the local lan and look at the syslog?

Could you point me to the services that farmbot is using so I could ping them regularly and see if such a service is not available when the bot disconnects? Would that point me towards the right direction?

Thanks for you help (finally)

Cheerio!

PS: Maybe we should split the topic and continue in the disconnection thread…?