I received my IoTaWatt today (thanks). Still trying to make sure my problems aren’t related to my network, but wanted to post a question about satellite internet.
I have Satellite (ViaSat). It works fine for normal PC/Mobile use, but has slow latency. About 750ms ping times. I saw one thread saying to take it to another location to set the clock. Are there known issues using the IoTaWatt on satellite? Or have issues already been fixed with a firmware update?
I booted up my new IoTaWatt and managed to get it to connect to my Wifi (“gg”). Configured my DHCP server for the IoTaWatt MAC address. Everything is working as expected. It’s on my lan, dhcp’d properly, and making DNS queries to my local DNS server. I also setup network rules (iptables/nat) to give it full internet access.
But I can’t seem to get the time to sync. This is the extent of my log from bootup to restart (when I try to see if it needs a “kick”).
SD initialized.
Real Time Clock not initialized.
Version 02_03_18
Reset reason: Power on
Trace: 39:78[188], 104:224[174], 130:246[132], 161:236[4], 91:224[160], 89:168[101], 55:99[190], 229:227[87], 18:37[35], 218:232[243], 134:105[52], 139:5[125], 29:26[47], 8:198[137], 101:195[163], 12:77[126], 253:157[15], 143:77[37], 24:228[173], 173:35[104], 190:106[35], 126:152[158], 153:66[251], 240:242[55], 45:51[32], 73:195[176], 220:80[216], 229:5[42], 37:93[59], 3:71[208], 127:36[75], 153:74[188]
ESP8266 ChipID: 6910484
SPIFFS mounted.
Local time zone: -5
device name: IotaWatt, version: 3
Connecting with WiFiManager.
MDNS responder started for hostname IotaWatt
LLMNR responder started for hostname IotaWatt
HTTP server started
timeSync: service started.
statService: started.
WiFi connected. SSID=gg, IP=192.168.208.5, channel=1, RSSI -46db
Updater: service started. Auto-update class is MINOR
Updater: Auto-update is current for class MINOR.
I don’t see any errors or retries. Does it only try once and give up, or keep trying?
From my server, I see it contacting DNS every 10-20 seconds. And the occasional 224.0.0.251 broadcast. Still not 100% sure it’s getting out, or if it’s even trying.
Apologies in advance if something in my network is misconfigured. Have been messing with it for a few hours. Still trying various things, but I’m pretty sure the network is good.
Would satellite internet cause something like this (latency too slow)?
Thanks again,