Does Notecard Cell+WiFi Failover to Cellular work in Minimum Mode?

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Can anyone confirm that the Notecard Cell+WiFi will failover from WiFi cellular when in minimum mode?

I put a WBNAW Notecard in our existing solution, added the card.wifi call to specify the ssid and password. Everything works fine, the unit waits up when scheduled, connects to router, collects the data and send the note to Notehub, then goes back to sleep.

When I move the unit out of the range of the router, it never connects to cellular. Mode is always minimum and we send:
J * req = notecard.newRequest(“hub.sync”);
JAddBoolToObject(req, “allow”, true);
notecard.sendRequest(req);
to sync the Notecard. Notecard firmware is 9.3.1.17434.

Before spending too much time writing code to specifically test failover, can someone confirm that a) failover to cellular works and b) failover to cellular works in minimum mode.

Thanks,
Karl

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This old man can’t read the antenna connector labels on the Notecard correctly, when I connected the cellular antenna to MAIN instead of DIV, it works. Now to get stronger reading glasses.

Sorry about that. This appears to be resolved.

Karl

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Hi @Karl_iWell,

Glad to see you got it working! I did just want to confirm for anyone who sees this in the future, that yes, the Notecard will fall back from Wi-Fi to cellular even if your hub.set mode is minimum. (I did have to verify this myself as I’d never thought to even try!)

Thanks,
Rob

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