Started noticing that my AQI data was not populating on my dashboard and after some wifi troubleshooting and what not, discovered that the PA II FLEX sensor is stuck in a boot loop of some sort … grabbed the utility and connected via serial, got the following. Not sure if this is related to firmware…

Thx for editing wifi info out of my post @Josh_PurpleAir :slight_smile:

So, I’m no longer having this problem, but I’m not really at all sure why … tl;dr, I used the utility to install a couple earlier versions of fw, used Erase ALL Memory, toggled wifi settings on my eero network back and forth (wpa3), disabled/re-enabled weewx polling of the local /json endpoint to co…

Eero and PurpleAir have a long history of not getting along .. this article might help: [image] Trouble Connecting With an Eero Router Troubleshooting The default configuration of Eero routers conflicts with PurpleAir sensors because both devices use the same …

Yeah - I read all that before :slight_smile: Thanks for taking the time to respond, though. My eero network already runs on a different IP subnet than the default. The PurpleAir device had been running fine on this network for many months as well … and is again now. Still haven’t actually sorted wha…

Examining your sensor’s data on our end shows that your sensor had low uptime for quite some time. You can see this by setting the map’s data layer to “Sensor Uptime” and increasing the averaging period to show more data on the map graph . This could have been caused by frequent network interruption…

Yeah, same cable, same setup, same location. Thanks for taking the time to give some thought to this and look at the data, really appreciate that!

Reboot loop, utility tool shows crash every ~30s

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dwhitemv (Doug White) January 2, 2024, 8:45pm 5

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Reboot loop, utility tool shows crash every ~30s

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