USB RFXCOM receiver problem
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:55 pm
Hello,
I'm the happy owner of a RFXCOM USB receiver, an RFXmeter (pulse and power), and 3 oregon sensors. The RFXCOM is connected to an NSLU2, I'm running Heyu to receive the RF data, Heyu then triggers my scripts to write to MySQL and generate some graphs (RRDTOOL). All this was working fine for more then a year now.
Since a few days however, the receiver is going crazy :
A few days ago the receiver stopped receiving (my sensors are still sending, but the green led at the back of the receiver does not blink). After a few hours everything was back to normal (without me doing anything). The next day the receiver again stopped receiving. After a while I noticed that I did receive some RF messages from the RFXmeter sporadically (the RFXmeter is very close to the receiver), but since then I never received any oregon messages.
I connected the receiver to my Win XP PC and used the tool to check the baud rate, that was OK. I also did some tests with an oregon sensor. When the sensor is within 1 to 2 meter from the receiver, the messages are received. When the sensor is further away, the receiver does not receive anything (the green led at the back of the receiver does not blink when the sensor sends its message).
Is the antenna broken ? Do my neighbours generate RF noise ? I don't have a clue.
Anyone ?
I'm the happy owner of a RFXCOM USB receiver, an RFXmeter (pulse and power), and 3 oregon sensors. The RFXCOM is connected to an NSLU2, I'm running Heyu to receive the RF data, Heyu then triggers my scripts to write to MySQL and generate some graphs (RRDTOOL). All this was working fine for more then a year now.
Since a few days however, the receiver is going crazy :
A few days ago the receiver stopped receiving (my sensors are still sending, but the green led at the back of the receiver does not blink). After a few hours everything was back to normal (without me doing anything). The next day the receiver again stopped receiving. After a while I noticed that I did receive some RF messages from the RFXmeter sporadically (the RFXmeter is very close to the receiver), but since then I never received any oregon messages.
I connected the receiver to my Win XP PC and used the tool to check the baud rate, that was OK. I also did some tests with an oregon sensor. When the sensor is within 1 to 2 meter from the receiver, the messages are received. When the sensor is further away, the receiver does not receive anything (the green led at the back of the receiver does not blink when the sensor sends its message).
Is the antenna broken ? Do my neighbours generate RF noise ? I don't have a clue.
Anyone ?