merbanan
RTL stops receiving data with HA on RPi 4
I have tried a number of addon's for HA but the issue still occurs where rtl_433 stops receiving data after a number of hours. Im using protocol 43. I have an automation to restart the addon after a time period and sometimes that works, other times i need to unplug the SDR. How can i see what is happening and why it is not receiving data? I am using this integration https://github.com/pbkhrv/rtl_433-hass-addons/tree/main/rtl_433
Likely the band you are watching is jammed or the signal drifted out of range. See https://triq.org/rtl_433/ANALYZE.html
looking at the data, most of the time i get data every 15 minutes then sometimes nothing. No sign of it drifting (not that i can see anyway from the charts). I switched to a mac so i can watch the data come in. I wonder if anyone else has seen the issue of the Oil watchman randomly stopping sending data. There is nothing around that is changing to suddenly interfere with the signal.
The -S unknown mode can help to find undecoded transmissions. It will take up some disk space though. Or perhaps try the HTTP output and follow signals there, use Modes->Raw to visualize but not save the signals.
I have a similar issue but wasn't sure if it was the same so opened another issue. If it turns out these are related they can be combined.
https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433/issues/1912
I moved my antenna, reinstalled HA and RTL and I am no longer getting the issue. The data I'm getting on the terminal is the same as MQTT. I do have an automation checking the time between messages and if it's above 30 minutes it restarts the addin. But since I have done the above, it has not triggered.
The data output to MQTT is the same as decoded. In my case one or more devices stop being decoded after a while. I currently have 5 total (1 blueline, 4 accurite). The blueline has been going offline recently. Was off yesterday, i restarted rtl_433 and it was back. It went down again last night but havent checked it yet.
It looks like this thread is largely dead, but I will say I have the same problem. It's frustrating. Even restarting sometimes doesn't fix it. Seems if I turn it off for a while, then it will kick back in. Also, strangely, if I play with the antenna it sometimes comes back. If I run directly off a computer, no problem, but on a Pi, it will die every couple days. I'd definitely take any advice on perhaps how to tune the radio settings a bit more? I'm running pretty much default, which works, until it doesn't.
I should have updated but in my case the issue turned out to be a faulty sensor. In my experience the Blueline device is very poor quality. My 1st unit lasted a few years before water got in combined with battery corrosion. The 2nd (this one) lasted a couple months. The 3rd was doa. The 4th unit has been perfect since installed (1/2022 ish).
I have also tested a lot more acurite sensors. I have a 5in1 weather station and ~8 temp/humidity sensors that can all work together (though the do start to interfere). During all of this I've had minimal issue with the radio or rtl_433. In the other thread i provide a solution in case the unit doesn't work the 1st time due to a bad auto-gain setting.
@bkenobi thanks for the follow up. I just started reading that other thread now...that will take a while :) I have an Acurite Atlas and 3 different radios, they all seem to do the same (2xNooelec NESDR and one that I got with the ADS-B PiAware project).
This feels like several reports that all amounted to flaky hardware. If you have a situation where you think there's a bug in rtl_433 please feel free to open a fresh issue, tested against up-to-date git master.
