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WiFi connection always breaks down after a few hours #15

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@UliZappe

Hi everyone,

I’m fairly new to the Arduino Yún and don’t even know if this is the best place to report this issue, but here we go …

Since starting out with the Yún last October, I’ve never been able to get a stable WiFi connection. Everything works fine for a few hours (something between 5 and 50), and then the connection breaks down (i.e. all network requests to the Yún time out). This has happened in 100% of my trials.

So far, what I could verify is that it’s not:

  1. A Bonjour/mDNS issue – trying to connect via IP address fails, too
  2. A hardware issue – I have three Yúns bought several weeks apart from different sources, and they all sport exactly the same issue
  3. A router issue – I use many WiFi devices apart from the Yúns, and none has any problems. I also took one Yún someplace else with a completely different router, with exactly the same result. (My router is a DrayTek Vigor2750.)

Since I found some at least similar reports on the Arduino-Yún forums, I was hoping that updating to the new OpenWrt-Yún software version would finally fix this issue, but it’s completely unchanged.

What I don’t get is that clearly, built-in WiFi is one of the main points why you would use an Arduino-Yún, so this issue is central to the whole product. For anyone who intends to use the Yún for something where permanent network connection over long periods of time is crucial (like home automation), this issue makes the Yún basically unusable. So I wonder why there’s seemingly not much attention given to this issue; I can’t be the only one who experiences it?!?

As I said, having basically no experience with OpenWrt, I cannot help much in fixing this issue, but of course I could help tracking it down if it doesn’t reproduce easily, if I’m told what to do/which information to gather.

Uli

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