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 "id": "a-meshcore-telemetry-poll-costs-18-less-airtime",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "A MeshCore telemetry poll costs 18% LESS airtime than one message plus its ACK",
 "symptom": "Health polling gets treated as an expensive luxury competing with real data, so it is done rarely or not at all, and nodes fail silently.",
 "hw": [
  "sx1261",
  "sx1262",
  "lora",
  "heltec-v4",
  "ht-n5262"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "meshcore"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Decide how often a deployed LoRa sensor node can afford to report its own health alongside its data",
 "date": "2026-08-19",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
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  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}