I have started to use Cayenne following your example presented here - it is really easy and quick built-in integration (although I miss some data types like “date” or “time” for example…).
Were you restarting the frame counter when temperature/humidity sensor was replaced?
Does this board keep the state of variables during the deep sleep phase?
that saves some energy, especially when you have long sleep periods (like one week)
the processor doesn’t have to wake up every 8 seconds to increase a counter and get back to sleep, it sleeps all the time until woken by the rn2483.
I use it for 5 min #define SLEEP_PERIOD 300000 // max = 4294967296 - 49.7days
see test code here
ttn.sleep(SLEEP_PERIOD);
sends the rn2483 to sleep
attachInterrupt (digitalPinToInterrupt(2), awake, LOW);
set the interrupt for the mcu on pin 2
when the rn2483 wakes up it sets the Tx line low, on that signal the MCU wakes
LowPower.powerDown(SLEEP_FOREVER, ADC_OFF, BOD_OFF);
set the MCU to sleep
so at this point in the loop both are a sleep, when the rn2483 wakes up, it wakes the processor and
returns in the loop were it start again with
readSENSORS();
OK, now I understand that the state of variables (like frame counter) is unaffected by the sleep.
It is different from esp8266 which does not return to the loop() but goes to setup() when woken up (I think). Thanks!
In my code I generate a node ‘frame counter’ and also the TTN backend has a frame counter.
Every time I transmit a frame the arduino increases the counter variable by one and transmit that value.
(for Cayenne I use ‘luminosity’)
The TTN backend , when receives this packet, also increases by one so these 2 values must be equal or we missed a frame.
For example, if it starts freezing like -5, there is a chance that the RN2483 (old model) wil stop transmitting and when then later the temperature rises, it will start working again… these 2 counters could point to that possible problem.
that’s why I couldn’t charge this new very cheap battery … the protection circuit has no components.
for the second time in 2 months trying to get the very fast 100% humidity reading from the BME280 sensor below the 100 
RAK811 portable programmable TTN node under construction
indeed 
almost forgot that I ordered them… 19000 mA - 3.6 V non rechargeable in D format
the D size holders arrived to :
mine arrived too, only smaller brother and sister 
you found a sticker on the packaging like this… what does it mean ?
‘quick and dirty’ rak811 measurement board with an ‘leonardo micro’ as uart controller
AA battery drainage rn2483A node with 5 min interval
yes, but no idea what they would point to.
I got that sometimes too. I believe it means “contain batteries of some sort” ?
