Along time ago I read an article which said “There is no easy way to program in parallel it’s like writing poetry in Klingon”. Little did I know that you can buy bound books of Klingon poetry.

I had noticed odd characters getting displayed every so often, especially when I had many devices working. Initially, I though it was two (or more) of the devices interfering with each other but after looking at the logging the payload CRC was OK

RegIrqFlags 01010000 = RxDone + Validheader (The PayloadCrcError bit is not set)

Received 23 byte message Hello Arduino LoRa! 142
RegIrqFlags 01010000
RX-Done
Received 23 byte message Hello Arduino LoRa! 216
The thread 0xea4 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x1034 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
RegIrqFlags 01010000
RX-Done
Received 23 byte message Ngllo Arduino /R�� �44
RegIrqFlags 01010000
RX-Done
Received 23 byte message Hello Arduino LoRa! 218
RegIrqFlags 01010000
RX-Done

I think the problem is that under load the receive and transmit code are accessing the SX127X FIFO and messing things up or the CRC isn’t getting attached.

I’ll put a lock around where bytes are inserted into and read from the FIFO, check the sequencing of register reads and do some more stress testing.

I turned off sending of messages and still got the corruption.

Then I went back to by Receive Basic example and it still had the problem. Looks like it might be something to do with the way I access the FIFO.

egIrqFlags 01010000
Receive-Message
Received 23 byte message Hello Arduino LoRa! 112
Receive-Done
Receive-Wait
........................
RegIrqFlags 01010000
Receive-Message
Received 23 byte message Hello Arduino LoRa! 110
Receive-Done
Receive-Wait
.....
RegIrqFlags 01110000
Receive-Message
Received 19 byte message Hello NetMFh���u�P
Receive-Done
Receive-Wait
.