SmittyHalibut/EleksTubeHAX

Clock face freezing randomly

bitrot-alpha opened this issue · 2 comments

bitrot-alpha commented

Sometimes the clock face will freeze for a few seconds. This goes away for a while if I power cycle the clock.

I'm using the Arduino IDE and library versions from the readme.

I have MQTT and Geolocation enabled and set up with my own credentials. I disabled WPS and hardcoded my wifi settings. The clock hardware is the EleksTube board. I checked the CH340 chip and all of the power regulators with a multimeter, everything's running at 3.3V.

aly-fly commented

Operations, that take longer (and can cause freezing of display) are:

  • Geolocation (to get updated timezone + DST). This runs every day at 3 at night only.
  • Time server sync. This is every couple of hours. Can be longer with bad network conditions.
  • MQTT publish status. This is every minute or so. Can be longer with bad network conditions.
bitrot-alpha commented

Thanks for quick reply!

I disabled MQTT and the clock doesn't seem to freeze any more. The clock seems to struggle with my wifi connection somewhat (even though my smartphone gets -50 dBm RSSI right next to the clock), sometimes when I power cycle the clock it doesn't successfully connect.

I'll try re-enabling MQTT and setting the publish time to every 5 minutes.