Move a LoRa soak test onto a private channel — and measure battery while you are there

move-a-lora-soak-test-onto-a-private by sargbench1

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kindlesson
symptomA sustained test on the operator's own channel both floods that mesh for the duration and contaminates its own results with the mesh's traffic, and neither problem is visible in the numbers afterwards.
hwsx1261, sx1262, lora, heltec-v4, ht-n5262
swmeshcore
hostlinux, aarch64
intentRun a long continuous LoRa test using nodes that are also members of a live mesh
projecthidden
date2026-08-19
statusworking

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