I'm tracking the wifi signal strength for my esp32 based environmental sensor suite. After an unrelated router reset I noticed a huge difference in the chart.
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I'm tracking the wifi signal strength for my esp32 based environmental sensor suite. After an unrelated router reset I noticed a huge difference in the chart.
Posted by Designer_Situation85
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Interesting how it got way more stable and consistent. Might be that there was another router on the same channel and it only detected it and changed the channel after the reset or something like that.
I did not mention it but my esp32 hosts an async website that posts the temperature humidity etc and wifi signal strength.
On a scrap laptop I have a python script scraping my local website every 60 seconds.
I save the data to a csv and use that data to make a website on the same laptop using apache2 and ubuntu.
Because the router reset forced the wifi channel to change. When the router reset it found a less congested channel
I noticed this kind of behavior in my old router after running for a few days. Replaced with a better router, and overall it’s been much more stable.
Does this mean I should be resetting my router more often?