Send data every 20 minutes

[sgaeumann]

Hello.

My goal is to send the pax counters every 20 minutes (more or less). In the paxcounter.conf file, there's a possibility to change the SENDCYCLE value, however it is limited to 255 (which would send every 2 minutes approximatively). I think the solution would be to modify the SLEEPCYCLE value.

#define SENDCYCLE 60 // payload send cycle [seconds/2], 0 .. 255
#define SLEEPCYCLE 0 // sleep time after a send cycle [seconds/10], 0 .. 65535; 0 means no sleep [default = 0]

• Is the device still sniffing while on SLEEPCYCLE ?
• Or is the sniffing enabled after each cycle and disabled until next cycle?

Thanks in advance.

[cyberman54]

>Or is the sniffing enabled after each cycle and disabled until next cycle?
This is the way how it works.

SENDCYCLE defines the sniffing period while the device is sniffing, and at timeout sends the result.
SLEEPCYCLE defines the pausing period between sniffing cycles. While pausing the device is set to sleep mode to reduce power consumption. Wifi & BLE are switched off during sleep. Thus, no sniffing.

[cyberman54]

Note: SENDCYCLE = 255 means a sniffing period of 255 * 2 = 510 seconds = 8,5 minutes continously sniffing. Not 2 minutes.

[proffalken]

Ah, now I understand this (I think!), so to send data every 10 minutes, sniffing for two minutes at a time, it would look like this:

#define SENDCYCLE 60
#define SLEEPCYCLE 600

Is that right?

[cyberman54]

yes.

[proffalken]

Perfect, thanks!