[arm-allstar] unstable WiFi connection on new rPi model 3 B node

[Jim Kinter Jr.]

I have a Pi3 mounted out in my laundry room, that I am running a 
power monitoring system on (has a custom hat board that takes input 
from 14 current transformers snapped onto the wires in my circuit 
breaker panel, displays Grafana graphs), and the last 2 weeks I have 
been fighting the same thing, wifi connects for a bit after boot, 
then drops never to reconnect until a I go power cycle the thing (I 
know thats bad, but dont want to drag a monitor/kbd to the laundry 
room each time/no switch close enough to plug in a network cable).
Its irritating enough I am considering how to run a CAT6 to it from 
my network rack through the attic... (everything else on the estate is cabled)

It was fine for months, then when I noticed it had somehow got a DHCP 
server turned on, I reconfig'd to use NMCLI vs DNSMasq (the 
monitoring system guy config'd the image), and thats when it started 
happening. .

My Allstar node is cabled, 5 feet from the rack, so not seeing it there.


73
Jim


At 09:58 AM 10/2/2023, Patrick Perdue via ARM-allstar wrote:
>Greetings:
>
>I've had a Raspberry Pi running HamVoIP for years. The other day, I 
>did a fresh install. Due to my own stupid fault, the MicroSD card 
>died, and the backup image went missing.
>
>Anyway, this node had previously been very stable. Now, with the 
>same hardware other than a new MicroSD card and a new image of 
>HamVoIP, the WiFi drops anywhere from about 3 to 10 minutes after 
>the node boots and never comes back online.
>
>The old image was running a 4.19 kernel. This one is ... whatever 
>the latest image is. 5.4.something.
>
>The AP is a Ubiquiti U6 Lite. Signal strength is about -56 dBm when it works.
>
>I have a Raspberry Pi 3 model A Plus a few feet away from that one 
>on the same network that happily maintains connectivity forever.
>
>Just wondering if anyone has seen this kind of thing. Maybe time for 
>an external device to bridge Ethernet to WiFi, a new Pi, or both?
>
>73
>
>N2DYI
>
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