Triggering the watchdog when ON StatusNet#IPAddress DO Publish tele/%topic%/LINK http://%value% ENDON rule

[dippes]

Hello,

I have noticed with two ESP-8285N08 devices that, after a certain amount of time, the hardware or software watchdog triggers when the rule "ON StatusNet#IPAddress DO Publish tele/%topic%/LINK http://%value% ENDON" is active.

However, there are no issues with the rule "on Info2#IPAddress do Publish tele/%topic%/LINK http://%value% endon".

Is this a known issue?

[sfromis]

Maybe your device does not have sufficient ability to supply power for much Wifi traffic. I'm assuming that you are using your "rule that triggers status 0 every minute"
That would trigger over 10 messages. It might help if you followed my suggestion of using the shorter Status 5 instead of Status 0.

Anyway, having exactly the same message repeated every minute may not be very useful. If the aim is to have a newly subscribed client receive the message in under a minute, you could make it retained with Publish2 instead of just Publish. Then the broker will keep the latest message in the topic and forward it to newly subscribed clients right away.

[dippes]

Which Retain command would be the appropriate one?

"StatusRetain" or "StateRetain"?

[sfromis]

I already posted about using Publish2 for a retained message. The Tasmota xxxxRetain commands are to set the retain flag for various of the standard Tasmota payloads, and does nothing for the custom payload you're creating.

[dippes]

However, waiting or restarting the device isn't really a solution.

As you can see in the screenshot, the IP addresses used by Publish2 are missing after the smartphone is restarted. For all the others, they reappear shortly after the restart. Is there perhaps another viable solution?

[sfromis]

That screenshot shows nothing about what may be going on, not even if you actually have retained messages. However, it is also possible what whatever app you are using on the smartphone is excluding retained messages.

Anyway, did you test my other suggestion?

[dippes]

Anyway, did you test my other suggestion?

Do you mean this suggestion?

You can also do it without a status command, with a rule like: on Info2#IPAddress do Publish tele/%topic%/LINK http://%value% endon This will act on the IP address already part of the Info2 payload automatically published after boot and network connection.

Yes, I tried that; the IP address is only assigned at system startup and when the device announces itself. That part works fine, but it doesn't help when my smartphone is restarted.

[sfromis]

No, I meant the other suggestion from the other thread, and my first response here:

It might help if you followed my suggestion of using the shorter Status 5 instead of Status 0.

[dippes]

Yes, that helped. I changed all devices with status 5 or 11 to status 0.