PyGate - Recommended error handling techniques



  • Hi guys!

    I received my PyGate today and have started to read up on things.

    My scenario will be a GPY on the PyGate-board, with a WiFi (external) antenna proxying packets from/to The Things Network (TTN). That is, not using the PoE expansion board.

    When looking at the documentation (https://docs.pycom.io/tutorials/pygate/) there seems to a lack of error handling... Are there any examples of how to handle these kind of errors:

    • Reconnecting to WiFi of the local network glitches
    • Reconnecting to TTN if the WiFi goes down

    Or is this already taken care of "under the hood"?

    Regards


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  • @firemonkey Did you have success with this? I'm having issues where the pygate drops off the network (usually when the router loses power) and it never reconnects.



  • While configuring the PyGate I used the following code to make it re-connect to wifi network.

    import _thread
    from network import WLAN
    import time
    
    wlan = WLAN(mode=WLAN.STA)
    wlan.antenna(WLAN.EXT_ANT)
    
    def wifi_monitor(delay, id):
        while True:
            if not wlan.isconnected():
                wlan.connect(ssid='AP_NAME', auth=(WLAN.WPA2, "AP_PASSWORD"))
                while not wlan.isconnected():
                    time.sleep(2)
                    print("Waiting for wifi to connect")
                print("wifi connection complete!")
            time.sleep(20)
    
    _thread.start_new_thread(wifi_monitor, (1, 2))
    time.sleep(20)
    

    The idea was to have a dedicated thread monitor if wifi is connected, and if not it would re-connect. The sleep timers selected are arbitrary.

    I wrote it due to the PyGate consistently losing wifi connection when running for longer than a day. Using this code it ran for months without any issues.

    Hope this helps.



  • @kodarn I think you question is still relevant, and nobody replied. Did you make any progress?



  • @kodarn Received my Pygate recently as well. I think there is still a big lack of documentation and tutorials for the Pygate. Too bad no one answered this thread. I'm hoping things get better as time passes :)


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