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2. Wireless Range Extender Light Indicator
Flashing Red/Green – the range extender is looking for a gateway to join.
Solid Red - no network found.
Solid Green – range extender has joined a network.
Flashing Green – sensor data traffic is intercepted and relayed.
3. Wireless Range Extender Data
The range extender reports on five data parameters. The first, DCnt, is
for
Device Count
and indicates how many sensors the range extender
is able to recognize as being in the network. This count may add up to
all sensors in the network, or it may only indicate those sensors that are
talking through it, depending on how the range extender was able to
provision its network.
Rxm stands for
Received Messages
. In the above example, there were 7
messages that were picked up by the range extender and sent through to
the network.
Fls stands for
Failures
. In the event that network traffic overwhelms the
range extender, the number of messages that were attempted to be
delivered but failed are recorded.
Qu stands for
Queue
. If the range extender is overwhelmed with
message traffic, it will report on the number of messages it has queued,
but has not delivered up to the network. As the range extender recovers,
this number will dwindle until it gets back to 1 as messages are success
-
fully delivered up to the network.
Chan stands for
Channel
. In the process of forming a sub network, the
range extender picks a different channel to communicate to the sensors
on, to help avoid accumulating too much traffic on the same network.
