Over a 24 hr period, my dashboard indicates I used just under 0.24MB to Particle.publish the following data string every 30 minutes, which would appear to mean each publish ate up about 5k (240,000 / 48) = 5k. Is this normal? Seems a big data debit for a short string. [image] I used a ds3231 to y…

@BDub Update: Electron code shown above (just changed to publish every 30 min rather than every min) continues to publish very well over 12 hr period (one missing publish out of the 24 expected). :grinning: But again, I don’t know whether this success is due to turning off LTO or moving from 0.4.…

That’s good to hear, and we do recommend compiling with COMPILE_LTO=n. System parts are compiled that way. Because you don’t have some of the latest changes, when you wake up from sleep, since the modem is being turned off, it will have to go back through a longer blinking green cycle connecting b…

@BDub 3 seconds white then 20 seconds green blinking then 3 seconds cyan breathing

Cool, makes sense. When you try again with 0.5.0, you should be able to wake right up from Stop mode sleep and publish immediately.

@BDub Over the past 2.5 hrs, instead of the VCell and SoC data, all I’m getting now is spark/device/app-hash notifications, which occur at times I should otherwise be getting the battery info publish message. The app-hash is the same every time. Without any intervention from me, it went from reliabl…

Further update. Remained stuck in spark/device/app-hash land past 4 hrs so I woke it up by momentarily grounding WKP. This produced spark/device/app-hash notices only. I plugged in the usb cable and tried the wakeup. Another spark/device/app-hash. I removed the battery and woke it up. Another spark/…

To rule out other issues, can you try leaving your Electron on instead of going to sleep. Just create a if (millis() - lastTime > 30*60) { } block to publish your data from and see how that does.

[image] BDub: (millis() - lastTime > 30*60) { } Will do. But we need to keep in mind it started to fail after about 16-17 hrs..... Here's what I'll run: #include "application.h" FuelGauge fuel; char publishStr[20]; uint32_t lastTime = 0; void setup() { // pinMode(WKP, INPUT_PULLUP); }//…

Sounds good, and I’d like to propose a change that will help avoid wrapping errors, and also publishes on boot. #include "application.h" FuelGauge fuel; char publishStr[20]; uint32_t lastTime = millis()-(1800*1000UL); void setup() { } void loop() { sprintf(publishStr, "%.2f %.2f", fuel.getVCe…

OK, I just flashed your change.

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