I am trying to optimize my data usage for an Electron device and have noticed the following usage: 10 days: 0.67mb of data My Electron is publishing an event every 5 minutes called “Temp” with values similar to “71,53,97,0”. That’s approximately 10 bytes of data. Where is the rest of my data usag…

I am not using any sleep routine. I have my main loop polling for power source our temp change and firing off an event of thr condition is met (very infrequently) and every five minutes it publishes the data to my server. It would be nice if we had a better peak at our data usage specifics as that …

A few things you should keep in mind: Your data will be sent through an UDP datagram. I has a header of 8 bytes. It is then packed into an IPv4 (most likely) packet with a varying header size (20+ bytes). The firmware will “ping” the particle cloud every 23 minutes (see ref. https://docs.particle.…

Each minimum publish currently with acknowledge is about ~70 sent and ~60 received, so if you add ~14 bytes (“Temp” is 4 bytes) to that let’s call it 144 bytes. Pings are 122 bytes every 23 minutes, but should not be happening if you are sending data every 5 minutes. So 1441224*10 = 414k. This as…

Outstanding feedback. Thank you! This gives me a much better picture at what is going on. I’m looking forward to the no acknowledge publishing. I’d like to still do every 5 minutes but I won’t need the acknowledge response.

Thanks again for the feedback BDub. I was also watching the logs on the Particle Dashboard. Is return data from a hook that goes through the Particle server sent back to the Electron? Example: hook-response/t/0{“recorded”:true}March 15th at 10:08:54 pmparticle-internal Is “recorded”:true" sent ba…

[image] BDub: When we release no acknowledge publishing, this will reduce the data usage by almost half. @Bdub - Has the no acknowledge publishing for the Electron made it to any official firmware yet? I just put my Electron online to test out data usage for sending webhook data to an Azure …

Yes it’s in 0.6.0-rc.1, sorry docs aren’t out yet… here’s the info: Unless specified otherwise, events sent to the cloud are sent as a reliable message. The Electron waits for acknowledgement from the cloud that the event has been received, resending the event in the background up to 3 times befo…

@BDub Sweet! I will load 0.6.0-rc.1 on my Electron and see what kind of difference I see in data usage. Right now sending a full JSON string every five mins the Electron is using 0.08 MB per 24 hours. Can you provide more data on exactly how the NO_ACK feature cuts data consumption by up to half…

I might be wrong, but up to half might be a conservative estimate, since it might actually be up to 2/3+ when a publish without NO_ACK would actually continously fail on the first two attempts always needing all three attempts. With NO_ACK you’ll save all the extra attempts, since it’s fire and fo…

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Are you using deep sleep? If so, see the note by @BDub on handshaking with the tower after deep sleep: Electron data usage

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