Massive activity gaps

[Baked-P0tato]

All the time this happens helium. As of lately it can be days with no activity. Your network is broken but you won't admit it..
Is there a fix??

[serbyxp]

Heh, it’s been “broken” since like thanksgiving, but besides that, they did post some stuff about network changes etc… since now their are over 700k hotspots the PoC regarding beaconing changes their was a Cap set to max 3 per day, that may have even changed as of the last time I looked into it. I read something about a newer change then that. But was consistently beaconing 3x a day now I do see “gaps” and as of late since latest update , am only beaconing like 1x a day. Sometimes I Beacon 2-3x but like you say it’s “gaps” like it will Beacon all 2-3x within the same hour. Then go dead for 24+ hours … it seems like they implemented something, that the challanges go off like “regionally”. What I mean by that is all my neighbors beacons go off when mine goes off… you can see that in the explorer how you mention “gaps” when I first started off I looked into it like every day, I gave up on trying to figure it out as I don’t get paid to do this. But apparently that’s their goal… give the people that actually put in the time, and raise questions the cold shoulder, until they just “give up” raising questions. 99% of the helium users don’t even understand it, so whatever … I got over getting frustrated at it, not worth it. They market it as “decentralized”, And use that excuse for what goes on, yet in reality they have full control over it, if you don’t actually compile the firmware yourself etc… Im not a coder but I went through all their code and figured it out, so if you put in the time to figure it out, then you can overcome a lot of the frustrations, it’s not just “helium” that has issues, it’s the manufacturers that pose the most issues to the network, since they maintain their own “fleet” firmware. So it’s a cluster of issues that isn’t 1 entities fault, but the collective. My advice if you don’t know about coding find a good manufacturer that keeps up and maintains their “fleet” properly. Other then that, just check your miner 1-2x a day to make sure it’s not stuck so you can restart it or whatever , and don’t lose sleep over it. It is what it is, and I don’t like saying that.

[Harv2021]

My hotspot hasn't beaconed for 8 days now... meanwhile there is a hotspot in my hex that has beaconed 4 times in last 24 hours. It is so wonky.

[serbyxp]

Heh, yeah man it is, but I caught up a bit with the “news” seems like the “light hotspot” gateway-rs or whatever is going live on April 16 so that should fix everything , since it’s all validator based challenges and what not… so all the “relay” issues should disappear , I hope. So as-long as you can reach the validators and they can reach you, should clear up all the wonkiness , hopefully. Only time will tell… but currently like theirs bunch of issues like when someone tries to challange you, if they can’t reach you then you won’t beacon… so it’s one of those things that should be cleared up, with light hotspot release.

[meowshka]

@Baked-P0tato please follow #announcements and #blockchain channels in the Official Helium Community discord for latest information on fix releases and other updates.
There are multiple things that can effect your hotspot's performance, can you please share the link to it on the Explorer?

Also, we are moving issue reports and questions to the Discussions board, your original report will be closed.

[meowshka]

Requested info for further investigation wasn't provided, I assume the issue is not happening anymore.