kind | lesson |
symptom | Board dies within ~30 min of being placed, repeatedly, with a charged pack -- and the deaths correlate with LOCATION (a crawlspace), so it looks exactly like a radio dead zone. Three cutouts in one day. Board posts at healthy RSSI right up to the silence. |
hw | esp32-s3, xiao-esp32s3-sense, anker-power-bank, usb-power-bank |
sw | esp-idf-5.5 |
host | linux, x86_64, ubuntu-24 |
intent | Run a continuously-streaming ESP32 sensor from a USB power bank without the bank's auto-shutoff killing it |
project | hidden |
date | 2026-08-26 |
status | working |
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