DanielMar 16

My remote #HeltecV4 #MeshCore solar repeater has a clock drift of about 20+ minutes after a week already.

On meshcore v1.14 with powersaving on. Tried clkreboot and synced clock already; second week and just happened again.

Anyone else experiencing massive clock drift on their heltec v4?

Show threadHoward Gees
@djh You've prompted me to check my solar Meshcore repeater running on a Heltec v4.
Two weeks and no drift in time - clock is working fine.
Mar 19 at 10:19amWeb
Show threadDanielMar 19
@HowardGees Thank you for checking! Can you confirm that you have "powersaving on" configured? I'm trying to figure out what could cause this 🤔
Show threadHoward GeesMar 19

@djh I didn't even know there was a power saving option! Where is that hiding?

Running a 10000mAh battery and 12w solar panel (more like 8w actual performance).

Show threadDanielMar 19

@HowardGees Check this out for repeater config options:

https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore/wiki/Repeater-&-Room-Server-CLI-Reference

The powersaving feature is described at the end. I believe it's only usable from v1.14+ onwards for the heltec v4.

I'm setting it like this via serial

set tx 17
powersaving on

For the tx x power relationship see
https://chaos.social/@djh/116186281960690673

Repeater & Room Server CLI Reference

A new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios - meshcore-dev/MeshCore

GitHub
Show threadHoward GeesMar 19
@djh Not seen this. I'll check next time I'm in range of that repeater. However I do know the transmission power was set to 18.