From 3028836e2f488feefca929a3488e866d41553ae3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joerg Lehmann <joerg.lehmann@nbit.ch>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:54:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] try to make measurements more stable...

---
 README.md                  |  4 ++--
 mini-beieli-node.ino       | 12 +++++++++---
 mini_beieli_node.h         |  2 +-
 mini_beieli_node_nau7802.h |  6 ++++--
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 33b1c75..2fcec8f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ Das sind die verwendeten Libraries [1]:
 | --- | -----  | ----------- |
 | https://github.com/mcci-catena/Adafruit_BME280_Library.git  | 3dafbe1 | Wed, 13 Dec 2017 13:56:30 -0500  |
 | https://github.com/mcci-catena/Adafruit_Sensor.git  | f2af6f4 | Tue, 1 Sep 2015 15:57:59 +0200  |
-| https://github.com/mcci-catena/arduino-lmic.git  | 6fe04ec | Tue, 12 May 2020 09:16:47 -0400  |
+| https://github.com/mcci-catena/arduino-lmic.git  | 1964dcf | Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:54:56 -0400  |
 | https://github.com/mcci-catena/arduino-lorawan.git  | 4bc0d48 | Sat, 9 May 2020 12:38:28 -0400  |
-| https://github.com/mcci-catena/Catena-Arduino-Platform.git  | cdbb111 | Thu, 11 Jun 2020 14:56:40 +0530  |
+| https://github.com/mcci-catena/Catena-Arduino-Platform.git  | 478ad23 | Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:39:01 -0400  |
 | https://github.com/mcci-catena/Catena-mcciadk.git  | a428006 | Sat, 21 Dec 2019 20:45:26 -0500  |
 | https://github.com/mcci-catena/MCCI_FRAM_I2C.git  | f0a5ea5 | Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:17:01 -0500  |
 | https://github.com/tatobari/Q2-HX711-Arduino-Library.git  | ccda8d8 | Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:41:44 -0300  |
diff --git a/mini-beieli-node.ino b/mini-beieli-node.ino
index a32bc6c..09e9bce 100644
--- a/mini-beieli-node.ino
+++ b/mini-beieli-node.ino
@@ -679,13 +679,14 @@ void StartNewIteration() {
   // we send data the first time the system is started, when the array is full
   // or when the weight has fallen more than threshold or the first measurement is
   // more than one hour old (which should not happen :-) )
-  if ( (next_package_is_init_package) || (my_position >= MAX_VALUES_TO_SEND) || ((my_position > 1) && (abs(last_sensor_reading.weight - current_sensor_reading.weight) > SEND_DIFF_THRESHOLD_5GRAMS)) || ((millis() - timer_pos0) > 3600000)) {
+  bool big_difference = (abs(last_sensor_reading.weight - current_sensor_reading.weight) > SEND_DIFF_THRESHOLD_5GRAMS);
+  if ( (next_package_is_init_package) || (my_position >= MAX_VALUES_TO_SEND) || ((my_position > 1) && big_difference) || ((millis() - timer_pos0) > 3600000)) {
     lora_data.offset_last_reading = (uint8_t)((millis() - timer_pos0) / 1000 / 60);
     if (config_data.debug_level > 0) {
       gCatena.SafePrintf("startSendingUplink(), my_position: %d, iteration: %d, package_counter: %d\n", my_position, iteration, package_counter);
     }
     // the first <INIT_PACKETS> packets are "Init-Packets" or each INIT_PACKAGE_INTERVAL ...
-    startSendingUplink(next_package_is_init_package);
+    startSendingUplink(next_package_is_init_package, big_difference);
     next_package_is_init_package = ((iteration < INIT_PACKETS) || ((package_counter % INIT_PACKAGE_INTERVAL) == 0));
 
     if (config_data.debug_level > 1) {
@@ -791,7 +792,7 @@ void StartNewIteration() {
   }
 }
 
-void startSendingUplink(bool firstTime)
+void startSendingUplink(bool firstTime, bool confirmed)
 {
   send_in_progress = true;
 
@@ -815,6 +816,11 @@ void startSendingUplink(bool firstTime)
     fConfirmed = true;
   }
 
+  // we can overwrite fConfirmed
+  if (confirmed) {
+    fConfirmed = true;
+  }
+  
   if (firstTime) {
     if (config_data.debug_level > 0) {
       gCatena.SafePrintf("SendBuffer firstTime\n");
diff --git a/mini_beieli_node.h b/mini_beieli_node.h
index 39739ac..e32c7d7 100644
--- a/mini_beieli_node.h
+++ b/mini_beieli_node.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ enum {
   |
   \****************************************************************************/
 
-static const int32_t fwVersion = 20200611;
+static const int32_t fwVersion = 20200629;
 
 static const byte INIT_PACKAGE_INTERVAL = 100;  // send an init package every 100 packages;
 static const byte MAX_VALUES_TO_SEND = 8;
diff --git a/mini_beieli_node_nau7802.h b/mini_beieli_node_nau7802.h
index 3e3ad03..88bacbb 100644
--- a/mini_beieli_node_nau7802.h
+++ b/mini_beieli_node_nau7802.h
@@ -102,12 +102,14 @@ long ReadScale(char channel)
       if ((millis() - mytimer) > 10000) {
         // Timeout reading scale...
         Wire.endTransmission(true);
+        delay(50);
+        InitializeScales();    
         if (debug_level > 0) {
           gCatena.SafePrintf("Timeout while reading scale...\n");
         }
         break;
       }
-      delay(1);
+      delay(50);
     }
     long reading;
     if (myScale.available()) {
@@ -117,7 +119,7 @@ long ReadScale(char channel)
     if (debug_level > 0) {
       gCatena.SafePrintf("Reading: %d\n", reading);
     }
-    delay(10);
+    delay(50);
   }
 
   long duration = millis() - startTime;