Debug Builds: `lora noise test` changes one thing at a time, Sweeps the
band, and reports the floor under each condition; it runs on the device
by itself, since one condition pauses Wi-Fi (not saved, so a restart
brings it back). Result, at 125 kHz: -117 dBm with the antenna switched
off, -106 with the GNSS receiver in standby, -98 with it running. The
receiver's serial line isn't it (one sentence a second changes nothing),
and neither are the main loop, the CPU frequency, Wi-Fi, the screen or
the radio's own regulator, all within 1 dB.
Settings > "Pause GNSS for LoRa", off by default: the receiver waits in
standby while the radio listens or sweeps, except during a Track, and
has a Fix again about 7 s after. The GNSS App says it's paused.
11 dB remain between the antenna with GNSS quiet and the chip alone,
untouched by anything that can be switched from the firmware.
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Tab in the LoRa Scanner sweeps 863-870 MHz in 100 kHz steps (the
strongest of three RSSI readings at each, at 125 kHz), shown as bars with
peak hold over a waterfall, the Sniffer's frequency marked (Q98). The
Sweep pauses the Sniffer and keeps its packets; Tab resumes it (Q99).
Status Bar: SW. The floor, top and peaks are host-tested; `lora sweep
on|off|dump` prints them on the console.
At the desk: about 607 ms a pass, a flat floor at -100 to -102 dBm
(15 dB above the chip's own) and a steady carrier at 863.2 MHz.
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The Sniffer lists packets newest first (time, RSSI, SNR, and for
Meshtastic the sender, receiver and hops), with the clear header and a
hex dump on Enter (Q96); `p` picks an EU868 preset, kept in Settings
(Q95). `c` starts a Capture: pcap with LoRaTap in /captures/lora, its own
Clean-up category, recorded by a small Service so it carries on with the
App closed (Q97, Q100). The Status Bar shows L while listening, bright on
each packet, and CAP while capturing (Q101). StorageService gains raw
appends for binary files. Debug Builds get `lora inject` to test all of
this with no transmitter in range: a Capture made on the device reads
back in TShark field for field.
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One task owns the SX1262 and does all its SPI behind the card's bus lock;
the main loop posts requests and DIO1 only wakes the task. It listens
while a client asks (App, Capture, Console) and sleeps otherwise, with a
ring of the last 32 packets (9.8 KB, freed when idle). No transmit path.
The Cap's antenna switch (expander P0) is set on the main loop, which
owns the I2C bus. `lora probe` now runs on the radio task and checks the
DIO1 interrupt with a receive timeout; `lora status`, `lora rx on|off`,
`lora preset`, and `lora custom` for other LoRa settings.
Measured: DIO1 works (timeout after 105 ms); four 1.7 MB uploads and
Gemini pages to the card while listening, no radio or card errors; task
stack peak 2.0 KB. Twenty minutes on LongFast and LoRaWAN: no packets,
and a noise floor of -83 to -94 dBm at the desk.
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