MONITOR 1.4.7 does not seem to like my WiFi mesh setup for auto-uploads

The Problem: Repetier-Server Monitor v1.4.7 fails when auto-uploading from a device connected to an auxiliary node on a WiFi Mesh setup.

I am using a TP-Link Onemesh/Easymesh setup for coverage over my land. My workshop is pretty remote, using a TP-link AX21 that may or may not bridge between 3 TP-Link RE700xs depending on dynamic routing. The main router is a TP-link AXE5400.

All of my RepServer Pi3s are hardwired via Ethernet on the AX21 router in the workshop, which is in MESH mode

So, to conceptualize:   AX21 (workshop router in MESH mode, All pis are on this, and I am monitoring from this node)<->RE700x (Repeater node)<->AXE5400 (Main router).

When running RepServer Monitor from my workshop PC, any upload from the monitored folders usually fail-- seems to just stall and then after a while, give me an UPLOAD FAILED message through notifications. Sometimes it will work, but I've had it duplicate the files multiple times, only send a 0 byte file, but usually just fail completely.

The connection is STABLE - I've tested it extensively, and ping is OK, PL is OK, and it's not hopping nodes very often. The other test is uploading it from a device connected to the main AXE5400 router, and it seems to work fine.

I suspect it's some kind of bizarre network traversal that's confusing MONITOR. Of course, running a tracert only shows the direct path to the device i'm trying to upload to. 

Is there a way to look at what Monitor is doing behind the scenes to see why it's failing so consistently? 


Comments

  • Monitor is just using node to communicate using the os. Depending on where you upload it might also communicate directly from browser. So what you can do to debug this is starting monitor from commandline. That way you see node error messages in the console you started it. In addition add --dev to the monitor app as parameter to see the javascript debug tools. Go to console or network to see failures in datatransfer or javascript. Most likely it is a timeout issue. Can you say if the problematic connection is slow or fast?
  • Just tested it, it's around 30Mbps down/16.08Mbps up -- not AMAZING but certainly not too bad, should still be pulling 1-2mb/s upload. I will add --dev and report back after I do a few tests.
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