Didn't know that about the pi3 (not capable of 5GHz WiFi) - but think I've read that elsewhere, like maybe in the spec :) . Oh well. 5GHz is crappy in this house anyway and probably would have introduced more troubles than fixes.
Funny, Adafruit is my RPi go-to for stuff like this. I'll check out the link you emailed me, thanks! Again, since the system worked perfectly for quite a while before all this starting happening, I sort of doubt location is the issue since it hasn't been changed. But I think I'll follow your advice and hard set the channel rather than let the router pick it. As you say, every variable you can eliminate ... I suspect your suggestion about neighbour interference is the issue - since it happened a while after Christmas, and powerful / mesh routers were a big deal in 2017, its quite possible one of the nearby homes got an upgrade that is crushing my 2.4GHz signal at random times just long enough to trigger the problem with the RPi3 but nothing else. If I set another Pi3 next to this one, and let it run some do-nothing loop that writes to the syslog, I'd expect a similar carrier loss problem with it at about the same time - is that reasonable? Moving the Weewx Pi is a problem as its fixed to a wall along side the Davis station and just above the UPS, etc etc. On the other hand, if its just a location issue, that's a pretty cheap fix. I'll have to look for a spot closer to my router and with fewer obstacles between them, I guess, as a temporary test. "... that can radiate basically to Mars it's so powerful, so I've lost those brain cells by now....." :D :D :) LOL ... maybe YOU'RE the person blasting my WiFi into oblivion. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
