Does anyone know what kind of range should be expected in reality for mesh devices in a residential house? I know the FAQ says “10s of meters” and “similar to bluetooth” but thats not very specific. I’m asking because I’ve got 10 xenons scattered about my house, and every one of them except the one…

I’m getting 90% reliability at 150ft line of site, no obstacles (this is about the max usable and falls off fast after that) 99.9% (not actually measured 99.9 but I don’t see any loss) at 140 ft or less 99.9% (same) 50 ft through 1 brick wall. So for some scenarios the mesh is plenty and others …

How many nodes are you testing with on the mesh network?

4 right now. 1 argon gateway and 3 xenon. (argon connected to an old, interposing cheap router because of the argon-to-xenon router allergy that causes the xenons connected to an argon to fast flash green).

There will eventually be a setting to set and save the selected mesh antenna (internal vs. external). However, if you want to play around with it now, you can just copy and paste this function and call it to select the external (u.FL connector) mesh antenna. The setting is not saved. The default is …

Awesome, thanks @rickkas7 ! I will definitely give this a try this evening.

Happy to report much improved range with external antennas. Using two xenons running the marco & polo code, there’s no place in my house or on my property where I get dropped messages while standing still. while i was moving I could occasionally lose one, but I couldn’t reproduce it while standing s…

That’s great to hear, though I won’t deny that I’m highly disappointed with the range of the mesh devices with the built-in antenna. Is this something that can be improved with future firmware updates or is this a hardware level issue?

Possibly, with all the stability issues in RC.25, I think the out-of-the-box range can only improve. I just bought some external antennas and I’ll be testing soon. But I’m still ready for the RC.26 firmware to improve things.

Sweet, thank you for posting this result. Could you please state what antennas you did the test with ? BR

I used the ones I linked above . I’ve had the marco polo test running for about a week now and sometimes still do miss a response. Once the whole mesh stopped responding and i had to restart the gateway. I’m not really keen on investigating too much more till 0.8.0-rc26 comes out, since folks here ar…

Mesh range / external antenna?

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Mesh range / external antenna?

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