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Posts in 2026
How I let an AI debug my LoRa network
Saturday, June 27, 2026 in 2026
I hit a massive run of packet corruption on a live LoRa network. Frames were arriving mangled, links were flaky, and the usual guesswork — swap the antenna, move the gateway, twiddle the spreading factor — was getting nowhere. So I stopped guessing …
Pretend to be the hub: testing a LoRa node in isolation
Friday, June 26, 2026 in 2026
A node was dropping off the mesh intermittently. The obvious move — pull it, bring it to the bench, test it against the hub — wasn’t available. The hub was live, serving the rest of the site, and pulling that would have taken half the network …