Dev Kit losing power from buoy after 1 minute of being connected

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It worked! We got our first pH reading in the database.

Thank you!

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@evan @zachary

It looks like this solved the issue. I got 24 hours of pH data uninterrupted. However, the SST probe kept going in and out and only transmitted 6 data points. Any thoughts on why this was happening? It is for SPOT-31897C.

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Hi @Taylor.gill the issue here is that when Spotter loses a GPS fix, the data won’t be shown on the dashboard or in the sensor-data API. Data only shows up in those places if it has a fresh (< 1 minute old) valid location associated with it.

It looks like you were testing in or near a building, so this is not unexpected.

In our next Spotter firmware release (expected to be 2.15.3) we’re going to increase the ‘freshness’ window to 3 hours to aid indoor/dry testing.
On our roadmap for a future release is to create endpoints that don’t require valid GPS time and location to provide data to clients.