[SOLVED] Photon stops publishing when on Solar Power

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I have a Particle Photon which is being powered by the Particle Power Shield. I have a LiPo battery hanging off the Shield, and a small solar panel which will charge the LiPo during the day.

I appear to have an issue where, when the solar panel kicks in to charge the LiPo, the Photon stops publishing metrics to Ubidots. I can still publish to the Particle log online.

My code is below, it’s as simple as it gets:

// This #include statement was automatically added by the Particle IDE.
#include <Ubidots.h>

// This #include statement was automatically added by the Particle IDE.
#include <PowerShield.h>


//Include the token for auth to Ubidots.
#define TOKEN "1BEeWhBIZuRE5rbzsDpo0AC0lxhMky"

Ubidots ubidots(TOKEN);

PowerShield batteryMonitor;

void setup() {
batteryMonitor.begin(); 
batteryMonitor.quickStart();
}

void loop() {


float cellVoltage = batteryMonitor.getVCell();
float stateOfCharge = batteryMonitor.getSoC();

Particle.publish("voltage", String(cellVoltage));
Particle.publish("soc", String(stateOfCharge));

ubidots.add("voltage", cellVoltage);
ubidots.add("soc", stateOfCharge);

ubidots.sendAll();



delay(5000);



}

Any suggestions?

2

Hello @Wedgie,

We will review the information and get back to you. Thank you!

Best Regards,
Maria C.

3

Hello @Wedgie, I don’t see any strange on your code, would you please call the debug() method in your routine and to paste the console output messages?

All the best

4

@jotathebest

Can you elaborate on how I include the debug method into my routine? I’m not familiar with it…

Thanks

5

Hello, simply add this line

ubidots.setDebug(true); //Uncomment this line for printing debug messages

Regards

6

Hello, we found an issue when you try to send data using UDP from photon devices, please use the updated library.

Regards

7

Thanks, yes confirming the new code resolved the issue.