the Show Nearby app does not seem to contain a call to setTxPower...
Yes, I spotted that when I went to try it - It should include it now!
That helps with the range, but what really increases the range is phy:"coded" - this uses a different transmission method where it sends 8x as much data, where pretty much all of it is error correcting code. So that way there can be a bunch of corruption in the data that is received, but the packet can still be reconstructed.
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Yes, I spotted that when I went to try it - It should include it now!
That helps with the range, but what really increases the range is
phy:"coded"
- this uses a different transmission method where it sends 8x as much data, where pretty much all of it is error correcting code. So that way there can be a bunch of corruption in the data that is received, but the packet can still be reconstructed.