{
 "id": "the-meshcore-transmit-airtime-counter-has-one-second",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "The MeshCore transmit airtime counter has one second resolution, so a single message measures as zero and you must accumulate a batch",
 "symptom": "The airtime counter does not move. A first attempt at a full spreading factor sweep returned a measured average of 0.0 milliseconds at every setting from SF5 to SF12, which reads as a broken counter or a radio that is not transmitting, while the messages were in fact arriving at the far node.",
 "hw": [
  "heltec-v4",
  "ht-n5262",
  "sx1262",
  "sx1261",
  "lora"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "meshcore"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Get a per-message time-on-air figure out of a MeshCore node",
 "date": "2026-08-20",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}