Question
How did I end up with so many bays failing one after the other?
Answer
This can happen due to a gateway failure or network congestion causing items to be auto-skipped immediately one after the other.
Overview
In some cases the auto skip function will be triggered multiple times in a row, marking multiple items as failed, and sometimes having multiple equipment open at the same time. This is normally caused by one of the following reasons:
- Gateway failure - when a gateway goes offline or its battery runs flat, multiple items will be affected, resulting in multiple consecutive skips and failures.
- Congestion - where there are large radio network deployed, or some communications reliability issues within a radio network, the auto skip functionality may cause congestion in the radio network.
The best way to avoid this situation is to make sure:
- Gateway units are located at good cellular reception.
- Any 900MHz radio field units have line of sight to the Gateway unit. Crops and other foliage that grow over the antenna height will break radio communications.
- All antennas are undamaged.
- Gateway antennas are installed according to the guidelines.
- Field units are fully charged and there are no battery issues.
- The number of radio nodes in the network is limited to avoid congestion.
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